Another Deckel In a Small Place

Hi guys.

When I started looking for a Deckel, I wanted an FP1 with 40 taper.

When they eluded my grasp, I suddenly had the winning bid on a 1966 FP2.

I ended up building a small shop around it. Just 12 square meters, 2.7m x 4.7m.

A few days ago a friend told me an FP1 was for sale locally. I saw a few pictures - the dirtiest FP1 I have ever seen.

But on a shelf lay the holy grail, the one made of unobtanium, you know it.....the FP1 riser block.


No way I could buy it alone, he wanted to sell the machine with it. A High Speed Head came with it also.

So I finally bought an FP1. Of course I took the vertical head, table and what was on the shelves, leaving the bare machine.

It sounded ok and looks like it "just" needs a serious cleanup and lube job outside and in. That'll take some time - another project...

But when I tried it without the vertical head, there was a sound I didn't like. Probably needs to be run, it hasn't been run in ages.

The serial number I can see from my bad photo seems to be 541961/80 or something like that. I'm sure of the 54. Age, is it early 70's?


Now I have to move everything around in my shop, so I can squeeze the FP1 in with a shoehorn.

Cheers
Erik

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