High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

[Toolmaker51]

oh thsose are just 1/2 boards, thats somebodys diorama dream shop...... entirely too clean, not a scrape on the floor, no wear trails, nutten.no oil stains, no dick stains. cant be real.

Oh my no, real as can be. Those shops full of Naval personnel [MR = Machinery Repairman] and a few civilian contractors, under the eye of a Naval Officer. I've worked in several. Long Beach, Puget Sound, San Diego, Coronado, Terminal Island [USCG].

[marksbug]

yes this diarama is quite detailed even the stuff laying around. I bought a 1 inch tall bridgeport years ago to add to my collection.

[meyer77]

Look at all of finger/appendage crushing things exposed, an OSHA mans nightmare!
My brothers friend was partners in a machine shop with a WWll vet in the 70's, One night after some adult beverage had been consumed my brothers friend was riding the ram of a very large shaper like a mechanical bull

[Jon]

Glass ribbon emerging from a tank. PPG Industries. 1940.

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[IntheGroove]

Even in black and white that looks red hot...

[Toolmaker51]

Even in black and white that looks red hot...

Clearly . . .

[hemmjo]

It does indeed look to be glowing hot. I like how it follows the first rollers, then less and less until it is flat on the last rollers

[Ralphxyz]

The rollers look like they maybe glass.

Ralph

[Toolmaker51]

Post *452, pic of near molten glass sheet.
Examining pic again, wondering if they are actually 'rollers' at all. There isn't an apparent pillow block or saddle bearing.
Might they be just forms that glass moves smoothly over? Seems with travel a bit acute to axis of those forms, would impart something like skiving, to reduce the corrugations.
Not sure a perpendicular feed would do that.

[marksbug]

so what the one above that apparently comes down...are they making corrugated glass sheets???