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Large lathes, etc... ship building
fatal-exception:
Completely fascinating stuff! :clap: It doesn't look like safety was high on the agenda. I guess if a smoking blue planer chip the size of a coke can hits you, there's not much you could to to protect yourself anyways.
That tracer torch is way cool, and look at how square it's cutting! Awesome!
Bernd:
Ah, guys, those are planers not shapers. The forrunner of the bridge mill.
Bernd
Brass_Machine:
Was watching Planet Green last night on TV. They were showing a show called "Extreme Cruise Ship" (I think??)
They were showing how they build the very large (I think it was the largest... ***something*** of the Seas) cruise ships. They were cutting huge plates of steel with what looked like a giant CNC plasma cutter. Very cool to watch. Still not as cool to see these giant lathes in action tho...
Eric
grayone:
--- Quote from: fatal-exception on November 22, 2011, 04:59:52 PM ---Completely fascinating stuff! :clap: It doesn't look like safety was high on the agenda. I guess if a smoking blue planer chip the size of a coke can hits you, there's not much you could to to protect yourself anyways.
That tracer torch is way cool, and look at how square it's cutting! Awesome!
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I served my apprenticeship at Smith's Dock on the Tees back in the mid 60's and we had quite a few of similar machines made by Messer if I remember correctly. The difference with the ones we had was that they "read" a translucent drawing and scaled it up to the cutting heads. Hanging from the wall was a Yale key that had been cut from 1/2" plate that must have been scaled up to about 2' and on it was painted "key for drydock door". I think as much for fun as taking the micky out of the 'appies.
I can also remember some vertical boring machines with rotary table that were used to bore the propellers. Huge things dating back to the late 1895 or around there and still working.
But yes it was a desperately dangerous place when you look back with a modern eye.
Graham
AussieJimG:
The crankshafts were built up but I couldn't see what grade of Loctite they used. :loco:
Thanks for the link, I served my time in the relative comfort of a telephone exchange. I thought it was noisy but I can only imagine the racket in that factory. I take my hat off to those of you who worked there. :nrocks:
Jim
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