Fortuna Skiving Machine ca. 1910

[Northmount]

15 hours ago, falseyellow said:

Hello, excuse me, has your Fortuna Skiving Mashine been repaired? Are you considering selling it?

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On 8/11/2020 at 12:08 AM, jimi said:

If you PM me your email, i can send you a manual in PDF.

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Anyone looking at these old "square neck" Fortuna skivers, my experience has been that they're a good basic skiver when running, but most parts are no longer available from Fortuna. They use the same blade, feet, and grind stone, some use the same feed rollers, and work plates as newer models (but many I've seen the feed roller is specific to these machines). They use leather belts that must be spliced together on the machine (can't use modern continuous belts), and most of the bearings are oddball open-face bearings that don't match modern cartridge bearings. If you need parts other than basic expendable stuff, you might find a company with old stock inventory, but I wouldn't invest much into one of these, at least not from a practical/fiscal approach. Fortuna didn't have hard set generational transitions on their machines, but IN GENERAL, I'd consider all of the old square neck Fortuna skivers obsolete, while most the newer round neck skivers are typically serviceable. The newest Fortuna skivers are white and are a whole-nother animal.