Vintage work crew photos

**Toolmaker51** · Feb 8, 2021, 01:16 PM

Bridge pontoons I'd guess are forerunners of RIB [rigid inflatable boat] hulls, in this case with flat hard decking. A true bow necessitates more involved cutting, gusseting and assembly, not critical to that use.
Those up-swept boat sections [known as sheer] seen in bridge pic are built in.

**marksbug** · Feb 8, 2021, 04:33 PM

Ive been around lost of different inflatables. before working at marina for years and after also, my wife sells them...among other marine associated stuff.

**Jon** · Feb 14, 2021, 11:32 AM

Winding room at the Nuremberg Siemens factory. 1910.

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**Hoosiersmoker** · Feb 15, 2021, 06:09 AM

The two women on the right look like they're quite content with their situations. I'm also surprised to see no one smoking here? Is there a safety reason they would have prohibited smoking in a winding operation like this? Other than the photo op.

**volodar** · Feb 15, 2021, 07:49 AM

smokers spoil any photograph.

**Hoosiersmoker** · Feb 15, 2021, 08:25 AM

Originally Posted by volodar

smokers spoil any photograph.

Agreed by today's thinking, however this photo was taken in 1910. Then it would not have been out of the ordinary, unless one of the women was smoking!

**hemmjo** · Feb 15, 2021, 09:11 AM

Didn't they use lacquer to seal and lock armature windings? if not lacquer, I would still bet whatever it was would be flammable.

**volodar** · Feb 15, 2021, 10:38 AM

Originally Posted by hemmjo

Didn't they use lacquer to seal and lock armature windings? if not lacquer, I would still bet whatever it was would be flammable.

we´ve lived on southern vancouver island for thirty three years. cedar house, cedar siding, cedar decks. continually fired airtight woodstove all winter. all flammable. lots of motors with flammable lacquer wingdings. never a problem. what´s the big deal??

**hemmjo** · Feb 15, 2021, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by volodar

snip... lots of motors with flammable lacquer wingdings. never a problem. what´s the big deal??

There is a big difference between liquid lacquer, with all of the associated volatile solvents, and the dried film left behind after it drys.

I am certainly not an expert on the topic of why they were not smoking in the Nuremberg Siemens factory in 1910, I was simply posing a possibility for discussion.

**skibo** · Feb 16, 2021, 03:01 PM

I worked in an electric motor rewinding shop for about a year as a grunt and most times, motor delivery. We couldn't smoke in the shop at all. We had to go outside to smoke and the boss would come out and tell use to get back to work or be fired. BUT, guess who would come around the shop with a pipe in their mouth, the shop air was filled with strong odors of lacquers at times! That was different!