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

[Toolmaker51]

Must say, that beats my level of laboratory experience hands down. I remember those ink erasers and the barely abrasive quality they had.
I've done hard fits with "Cratex"™, abrasives bonded in rubber like matrix, especially diesets and odd tooling.

[old kodger]

I want to know does the giggling pin have to be in proximity to the chuckle shaft when the guffau pressure is applied to the laughing sensor?

[Floradawg]

Ummmmm, yeah, I think so.

[Jon]

Threading couplings. Seamless Tube Department at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s Aliquippa Works. 1942.

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[hemmjo]

There is so much going on here. Fascinating to imagine all of the thought and hard work that went into making all of the industry that build our society, and how easily it is lost.

[Toolmaker51]

There is so much going on here. Fascinating to imagine all of the thought and hard work that went into making all of the industry that build our society, and how easily it is lost.

As I posted elsewhere, it was not lost.
It was not surrendered.
It was not outmoded.
It was given away.

[TrickieDickie]

that is a big ass tap

[Isambard]

That's a collapsible tap, Landis make up them to 12 inch pipe size.
I have a BSA (UK) catalog of 1952, that lists sizes up to 14"! That would take some serious HP!

[marksbug]

I musta missed the ass tap.

[Jon]

Anvil forging. Bethlehem Steel Corporation. September, 1948.

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