American Beauty or Powermatic 4224B

[Mike Selser]

The Oneway is all steel, formed and welded. The Powermatics are all gray cast iron - headstock, tailstock, and all of the bed. The Robust is a hybrid. Robust headstock is gray cast iron, as is the banjo, with bed and ways of welded steels [several grades]. For generations, the optimum material for damping and chatter minimization in machine tools has been gray cast iron. So that's a Powermatic. Having been at Robust two weeks ago, and seen their design details, it's my opinion that their machine is close to the Powermatics regarding this characteristic - damping of vibration and resultant workpiece chatter.

Had to see what your avatar was. Here‘s what it could look like.

 

[Aaron Gesicki]

It's the now abandoned ore dock loading station in the Marquette, MI harbor.

 

[Mike Selser]

It's the now abandoned ore dock loading station in the Marquette, MI harbor.

The picture is from a development proposal at https://www.oredockboteco.org

 

[Aaron Gesicki]

I hope the project gets funded. That location would benefit from a central attraction. The big BUT is what does it look like or become during the 7 or 8 months when it ain't summer anymore. That illustration will be different under 200 inches of snow.