What’s the oldest working tool/machine we have at the makerspace?
Is it the DoAll (How old is it?) or do we have even older?
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I think the DoAll is the oldest. It was in service at Ft. Hood (now Ft. Cavasos). It was sold to an army surplus store. I then purchased it after an exhaustive metal only bandsaw search. I’m guessing it from the 60s or 70s.
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An exhaustive search for the biggest vertical bandsaw ever made, or was that just a coincidence? 
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nah someone I was chatting with online just thought their 10 year old bandsaw was old and I was like bruh
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It is definitely the largest capacity bandsaw that is publicly available in Austin.
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I’ve always said that the DoAll was clearly built during an age when people thought you could survive a nuclear war (and would want to), as it is obviously designed to be heavy enough to “Duck and Cover” behind.
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I’m always careful about placing anything on wheels too close to it, as it obviously exerts its own gravitational pull.
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I was always told it was from 1968, so that’s what I’ve always been saying in tours 
Hopefully that’s about right
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