As I posted elsewhere, it was not lost.
It was not surrendered.
It was not outmoded.
It was given away.
Boring mill. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. July, 1904.
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That's a Betts Horizontal Boring Machine. Betts Machine Co. of Wilmington, Del.
It looks like Manning, Maxwell & Moore supplied it.
re post * 642;
Boring mill yes, but quite small. In this photo, not set up for boring, that is a 'trip wheel facing head' mounted on the spindle. The 3 pronged "T" is tripped into partial rotation as it swings arc, turning the lead screw, barely visible inside the base [looks like a drill press vise].
The machine itself is larger yet, this housing is mounted on a accessory table to provide X axis across spindle. farther down is driving end of a Morse Taper line boring rig; and isn't that the planer in the background from several posts back?
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Here is a larger model from Giddings & Lewis, fits a 3" boring mill. 5-star and 1/2-13 thread lead screw; results in 0.0153 per revolution from 0.0769 thread pitch/ 5. Changing lead screw alters pitch, after consideration of part size, tool bit radius [or form], material and rigidity of setup. The tool block holds a conventional square bit, presenting it right or left hand, or angular position for shoulder or undercut. That's when attention level has to be 101%, stopping rotation properly, compared with unobstructed facing work.
PS, edit. Looking at the post, it struck me what's transpired historically; between that tool, almost 100 years old, and taking it's picture with a telephone....
yup the telephone brings a little perspective to Eveolution.
Not wishing to be pedantic, but Betts like others called it a boring machine,
the term boring mill relating to those of the vertical persuasion...
BTW Did anyone pickup on the dog's breakfast of the work-piece setup?
I had to look up "pedantic". I try to learn something new every day. I always do visiting here.
Mesta bar mill.
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10,000-ton forging press. Homestead Steel Works. 1890s.
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10,000-ton forging press. Homestead Steel Works. 1890s.
Not awfully different from the press at Long Beach Naval Shipyard; despite promotion as property in one of US largest ever auctions, availability, fully operative condition and incredibly low price it went unsold and scrapped.
That set of conditions dovetails tightly with response found in post *641. That lamentation is somewhat past-tense, worse now than even possible before.
Wire mesh machine. Donora, PA. 1915-1917.
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Wow, all that feed and assembly mechanism, while maintaining wire under tension; lineshaft driven.
Puddling furnace. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. November, 1886.
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I had never heard of a Puddling furnace before this.
Come on I give up What on Gods Earth is a Puddleing Furnace??? and I'm not keen to guess.
An explanation: https://www.revolutionaryplayers.org...dling-furnace/
More information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddling_(metallurgy)
Henry Cort lived ~ 500 Yards from my home, and I was a governor of the school my son's attended named in his honour!
I had a closer look and that mesh is spot welded! Lots of transformers there.
Thanks for posting this.
This from the Wikipedia page: Puddling was never able to be automated because the puddler had to sense when the balls had "come to nature".
Quite a few years ago I purchased the book "Sloss Furnaces and the rise of the Birmingham District".
It was nice to dig the book out again and reread the parts I had glossed over about Puddling.
Big hot balls of iron. thats pertty neet, and to be able to figure that out was a true stroke of a genius. and Eveolution continues.
Plate leveler. United States Steel Corporation. 1935.
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MESTA= Incredible. Looked it up, exactly that.
Steam roller.
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These days the wimps want an air conditioned cab.
re *662.
Unknown basis, but I dug rollers as a kid. First seen may have been nearly this 'mechanical' and therefore interesting.
Flattening bejeebers out of stuff might have part of that too.
But the name remains "Steam Roller".
Never saw a one in steam, work, but it was quite common to see them re-powered with a Ford tractor engine, right up to the early 60s...
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What I never understood is why you'd want to roll steam. Oats, yes, but not steam.
:) :) :) :)
Buster...
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Mesta roller leveller. U.S. Steel Homestead Works.
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Looks like Keebler wasnt very popular :lol:
......or very popular.
140" crew at shears. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Company. Homestead, PA. March, 1942.
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Would not want to get my finger stuck in there. The sheet they are doing looks like 11/2 - 2". Amazing they appear to be doing lineup by eye.
Ralph
Coil preparation line. Tin Plate Department of the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation’s Aliquippa Works. March, 1952.
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'Coil Preparation' tells me this isn't paying out to feed punch presses or such equipment, it's actually rolling coils for shipment. When you see one or two coil loaded on a flat bed, you get a good idea what those weigh.
I've sure as heck never seen three at a time, in fact 2 must be so close to max, nothing else added to round up LTL (less than load).
I retired, some years ago, from a coil coater plant, where we coated coils of mostly aluminum but some galvalume (steel) both sides with baked enamel finish. This meant some incredible tension to keep the metal suspended for nearly 150 feet from the paint coating rollers through four ovens to a hot water quench before wound onto the exit arbors. This happened in could widths from about 25 inches to 36-1/2 inches and up to 200 feet per minute. Those aluminum coils weighed anywhere from 3500 to 7500 pounds, so sometimes 6 coils could be shipped in one semi load. Often the coils were slit to desired widths and cut to desire lengths, mostly made into various building projects such as siding, window frames or rain gutters. The steel rolls weighed up to 10,000 pounds, give or take, so 3-4 coils made a "truckload". I don't know how these rolls compared to the rolls in the photo being, probably, uncoiled, I'm just giving this for comparison or conjecture.
no they are making tin plates, it says so. tin plate dept.:smash: :idea: they lay also make tin cups for golfers. and possiably pan handlers as well as pan handles. but thats another dept.:headshake::hattip:
I am curious what this guy is doing. He was moving during the shot, but there appears to be a guard in the way.
It also looks like he is close to the "break station" with a hot plate, coffee pot, a cup and some paper bags for ... donuts?
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Coil preparation line
This fellow does not seem to have much interest in anything.
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