it looks to be portable....and look at the wood it's mounted to.and all the power transfer gears as well as the belt drive..with a tiny jack&board under it.
it looks to be portable....and look at the wood it's mounted to.and all the power transfer gears as well as the belt drive..with a tiny jack&board under it.
Worked around fairly good sized machinery, parts of various sizes, always made the days fly by.
In a shop or just pictures, the lasting impression I get doesn't hinge on immense parts. It's the tremendous equipment inventory to support it, giant cranes in bigger yet buildings, lay-down yards for material and work-in-process, needing acres and acres of real estate, machines of course, tool rooms, the gear to transport it out after assembly [usually partial]........
Somebody tells me he's in business....."Doing what?" I ask. Always turns out little more than rented office space, cubicle walls, PC's and printers.
Oooohh whoopie-do, am I impressed. :headshake:
In regard to #315 , the shear with all of the wheels for sheet positioning... I am always interested in the evolution of the design of things.
I am imagining one of the shop guys (Alex) going to engineering to ask (Bob) about some obscure detail on a drawing. Alex and his coworkers have just finished wrestling a big plate onto the shear. As Alex asks the question, Bob rolls his desk chair across the floor to the wide shallow file drawers (no computers) to retrieve the drawing with his notes. A light goes on in Alex's mind as he watches the casters on Bob's chair adjust to the direction of travel... Fast forward to the next week... All of the office staff come into the office long after the shops guys have been hard at work. All the chairs are 3" (76.2mm:) lower than before. Someone has stolen the casters from all the chairs... Bob and his friends just smile as they hear the grumbling from the pencil pushers in the office. (the names have been changed to protect the innocent)
From that simple beginning, as ToolMaker mentioned, things evolved from swivel body casters to plate mounted or ball-transfers.
My imagination does wierd things sometimes... lol
Hearing 'pencil-pusher', I'm immediately offended...
But I enjoy it!
Because it reminds me of that ilk over rides shop floor supervision regarding many improvements and enact methods to write off Tooling/ Prototype variety of work 'overhead' and thereby not profitable.
But it is sooo entertaining to demean them. My favorite quip asks; "so, if we go under, when everything here is on the auction block, which of us leave behind stuff bidders ALWAYS clamor for?"
Kendall Gent milling machine.
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look how many Lilliputians you can put on this mill!!! awesome mill!!!
Far too many posers in the way......I'd bet the correct 'brochure' description is 'Planer-Mill'; powered spindles and toolbit holders, essentially lathe-like cross slides. Notice two vertical spindles on the cross-over, and two more side heads, must be 50 hp each. There are two similar machine types. What makes this a planer? The table runs on ways, carrying material. The variation is gantry type, cross-over travels instead, hence Mill-Planer. Then can be a little shorter in length, don't act like having that incredible rigidity of table type. Very first shop, one machine I ran was their 40' Gray Planer-Mill, most power of anything I've handled.
Big as this is, literally a quarter the size of the Ingersoll Planer Mill that was at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Being on the coastline, insuring it had a solid foundation, the concrete footings were 30' deep.
I've posted it's pic before, because guess who retains and treasures the auction catalog, not to mention working the entire auction period.
Enough horn honking for now...
PS. Regardless the size of this machine tool, notice it sits on a larger yet floor plate, which had some degree of machine work done beforehand.
I try to please...tomany people are too serious all the time and cant see the forest due to the trees. as for me..Im outstanding in my field.
I rest my case.......
"The first order of business at Kendall Gent is that everyone be of uniform stature. Please stand where you are and don't move..."
:)
hey look nobody plugged it in yet!!HEAR HOLD MY BEER , Ill do it!!! FAMOUS LAST WORDS and thus the Lilliputians were all wiped out with one fast lightning quick drop of a beer. that dam Gulliver.
Slotter at the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. 1904.
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File name of full size picture is "McKees Rocks", in semi-disappointment is a Pennsylvania location, not a machine name. Can anyone read the cast in identification found on column, operators right side?
For a member with empty square footage, a slotter of perhaps next size smaller is available in SoCal, I've bookmarked. It's not on my hunt list, just an easy way to find that vendor. I've run shapers and planers, no shop with a slotter. There were however, some in Los Angeles, running in oil field shops, and Naval Shipyard. Their advantage, large sized work pieces, due to throat depth and built in rotary table, simplifies a difficult set up. Gravity and horizontal just go together.
Yes, it's a reference to McKees Rocks Machine and Erecting Shop, assumedly a division of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. The fullsize image is large, but that's tough to read, even enlarging the page with control-shift-+.
I shift-controlled enough, like a Fuller Road Ranger into top gear; lap top not epitome of viewing. But thank you sincerely. I bookmark almost every machine maker I run across. But impossible seemingly to grasp how many there were, here and gone.
To think companies would commission photographers in portrait grade work, as a sales tool.....bet no thought of historical value.
I am wondering if that writing is not in English. Is it possible that monster was shipped here back then? Unfortunately the best focus in the photo is at the turntable. I can clearly see those graduations when the photo is enlarged. The focus falls off as you move back toward the name plate. But I cannot even begin make out any of the characters on the name plate.
Tried my usual tricks (contrast, sharpening, messing with the levels), just not enough pixels back there on the nameplateAttachment 38492. We're gonna need a CSI "Enhance" magic tool to see this one :-)
I think .... or russian and it's also in reverse.....
I thought that for a moment, but the chalk calculations on the pillar next to the slotter indicated that the negative wasn't reversed...I just think that the angle and lighting prevented the existing scan to properly show those details.
how wood we tell?? well I reckon the vodka bottle would still be full...
:hattip:
Pretty good chance it's Russian if you see фжяьи and such letters, but a lot is shared with Greek due to good old Saint Cyril.
It's all Greek to me...
1202 would have been Kievan Rus or Feudal Rus, the first version of Russia didn't come about until the 1500s. More than you wanted to know. :) :)
Oh, and for Western Politicians and other uninformed people, the Soviet Union СССР (SSSR) ended in the early 1990s...it no longer exists. What is there now is the Russian Federation. Not quite the same animal.
:headscratch::sweating::headscratch::smash::embarrassed: crap when did my wife get on hear?:rimshot: just kidding.
Ive gotten some nice stuff from russia..well somewhere over there off flebay some nice internal mics like new from about 2mm up to 10mm.I wish i could afford to get more from that guy.he has all kinds of stuff. I also got some american Wix fuel filters...but when they arived..made in Russia...Wix assured me they were made to the same std's.. but also said those are not to be sold in the USA..I got all warm and fuzzy feeling from that. I would think they were at least better than the china stuff. and possibly better than the made in usa stuff.
Axle Lathe. Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. July, 1904.
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I love the trays under to catch the swarf&chipps!!! just like I do on mine!!!! it makes clean up a breezzee and the machine stays looking like new!!!
Chip trays are a plus.
Big parts, a lot of chips.
But not until it's loaded in the machine.
I'll take the jib crane and hoist; that has unique construction.
Practically guaranteed though, none left in existence.
And that shaft hook, it cantilevers with a yoke above shaft, and slings balance from below!
Does Jon award Tool Of The Week posthumously?
*2. Went back for another gander, 1904 but not a lineshaft shop. The motor drives a cogged belt, with the headstock gearing under or in the lathe bed? The headstock proper IS in the middle, tailstocks and carriages at each end. Chuck is actually a trunnion bearing.
Well worth examining full size. Enhanced maybe, but they still can't improve image beyond what is recorded. Incredible detail.
A slightly newer version; with conventional drive.
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That old Putnam lathe was made in the same town where they made the early Iver Johnson firearms.
Looks more like a single sided chain than a belt, similar to a 'silent' chain.
the chain of command is always belting out orders.hoist this hoist that. chip get back to work!!!:embarrassed: oops rong factory....silent chain of command my butt.it's all single sided..works make parts, the one command makes $$$ keep all these awesome pics coming and stimulating my 3 brain cells!!! or was that simulating?
Tapping machine for couplings. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. 1942.
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Gang drill. Machine and Erecting Shop, Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company. July, 1904.
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I only see two spindles, one @1-1/2" the other @3/4". Not exactly what I would call gang drilling.
Ralph
spankey and the gang were off the day the pic was taken.:rofl:
Mesta motor-driven slab shear.
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With herringbone gear...