Our perforator was manufactured and shipped new to the B.B. & Spindler Co. of Omaha, Nebraska on December 21, 1916. The unit still operates today, as it did then, with a 220 Volt a.c., 3-phase electric motor. Everything is original. Kathy and I spent a week cleaning it, tinkering with it, a local electric motor shop cleaned 85 years of crud from within the motor and adjusted it for proper, 1100rpm operation and, Kathy refinished the table tops to furniture quality.
The pin-holes are .0415" diameter (approx. 1/24th of an inch O.D.) and spaced approximately 1/32" apart. We have purchased replacement pins for it and discovered how to make it just as new in the perforating dies as the day it rolled off the assembly line at Rosback (in Benton Harbor, Michigan), for clean, crisp perforations.Our perforator is an F.P. Rosback EXTRA HEAVY MOTOR DRIVE POWER PERFORATOR (Rosback's original name for it). From their literature, it is "similar in general appearance to the 28-inch Rosback Footpower Perforator." This particular model perforator was manufactured to customer motor requirements and was made available with either a.c. or d.c. voltages. t's a sweetheart and we are truly proud of it! (And I hate to say this, but Kathy can actually do a better job at perforating with it than I can. It must be because she takes more time and doesn't need eyeglasses (yet) for the close-up work.)
Bill Porter ~ The Olathe Poste
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