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"spindle" and "freeze" are two words I really don't like seeing in proximity. I learned to cut on a similar, albeit burlier machine. American LaBlonde, rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1919. My dad referred to it as a "total loss oiler." Thing was a hundred years old and would hold half a thou. Went to UW and they had similar machines for the undergrads to work on; they'd hold about fifteen thou. Turn 'em on and they made a sound kinda like a burr grinder.