Glad I got to see the enlarged photo. Was not sure what the third and fourth men from bottom were walking on. Since I have an "issue" with heights - this would have been an impossible job for me.
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Glad I got to see the enlarged photo. Was not sure what the third and fourth men from bottom were walking on. Since I have an "issue" with heights - this would have been an impossible job for me.
The height and the construction wouldn't bother me but you can keep the snow!
February, 1942.Quote:
Conversion. Watch cases to war production. They'll be doing war work soon. When the last batch of ladies' compacts is cleaned at a converted Kentucky plant, these girls will use their skill in the production of bomb fuse baffles, compass cases and parts for carbine and machine guns. Wadsworth Watch Company, Louisville, Kentucky.
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The one who took the photo knew something was not right!
This picture, women of Wadsworth Watch Co., tells me saving the description has importance. I'd seen them self-explanatory, that's kind of myopic.
NACA dynamometer crew working on Allison V-1710 engine. March, 1943.
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Will someone get that guy a hat to match his tie...
I am wondering why that guy at the left of the frame appears to have his hand on some kind of switch. That does not look like a good idea with the other guys working on the engine.
No one is "working" on the engine...
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Check out the trousers on the guy at the switch.
I had a pair of knickers made out of the same material 80 years ago.
Never forget them for some reason.
1500 hp @ 3000 rpm
(roughly 1/3 more power than the RR merlin)
In 1941 the Allison V-1710 had 1250 HP @ 3200 RPM...
without the turbocharger.
Is this a V-12 or V-What?That engine must've have had some power! The size of that dyno-meter or hydra-matic! Any power specs?
V-12. So why at 4 valves per cylinder, are there only 11 exhaust tubes visible on port bank?
And knickers of the same fabric? Thankfully what passed for snazzy then, hasn't continued. Or coordinating plaids of hat and tie, lol.
Engineering marvel...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO0LYLiQbko
What were they pumping or spinning up behind the engine? Maybe getting the turbine spinning?
Performance test, that's a dynamometer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamometer
No, not the original post, but the follow-up that had video of one of those engines starting and running. They joked about having to get folks from the audience to help with whatever they were cranking/pumping back there. Another thought was that they might have been winding up a flywheel used as a mechanical starter.
Aaaah. It must be some kind of flywheel with tremendous gear reduction; it's heard clearly when audience member lays into it.
My Dad worked for the NACA at Langley Field as an aerodynamicst at that time
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Inertia Starter
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...tank-gif-82788
Dad used to have an Allis Chalmers bulldozer with an inertia starter. We kids used to love winding that thing up!
For entertainment as kids in rural Mississippi my cousins, some 19 of various ages, and I would push papaws farm wagon up the hill on the county dirt road in front of their shotgun house. At the top we all jumped on and road it down steering it by the tongue (flipped back to us), heaven help us if a car was coming, no brakes and just a ditch to steer into.
Setting an extension shaft during the installation of a 44-inch blooming mill in the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation. September, 1953.
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I like the way the lifting cables are attached.
Is that a "shop dog" or a pile of rags on the lower right ?
its a pile of rags. But surely there must be other things for 2/3rds of those men standing around watching could be doing.
Plenty of crew, no doubt, only 3 pair of hands actually doing anything. Remainder clearly trained by State [of your choice] Road-way Departments.
Riggers look to have had a plan, LOTS of dunnage.
The dog "Rags" though played safe, piling up spare cloth to make them THINK we was on station.
How many bodies can you count in this picture?
I wonder if setting the shaft is pretty much the end of the job or at least a fairly important step and the picture is almost like a commemorative for the entire crew, like maybe it will be the last time they will all be together?
All it takes is some ingenuity, the right equipment and a cast of thousands! It looks like that extension caused them to take out a fair share of the wall to allow that shaft extension.
It looks like in addition to bolting up the flanges there is some sort of large square key on the shaft flange face to line up between the shaft and what is driving it.
Yes the improvised spreader and protection pieces would be essential to stop the slings slipping together or damaging the shaft, something I have to do with some of the odd lifts at work where no one's thought of just how the slings will try to slip/close up and crush the items casings usually.
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WAVES recruits in the training school at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, enjoy a joke with one of the hospital's Pharmacist's Mates, Patrick La Rosa, engaged in one of the frequent, if not favorite, Navy pastimes of "swabbing the deck”. From left to right are WAVES Jean Rindall, Naomi Edwards, Charlotte Kofoid, Nancy Crane, Carol Peterson, Geneva Dudley, and Jean Aldo. The WAVES are wearing Pharmacist's Mate striker badges on their sleeves, and the poster on the wall admonishes "Don't ever call it a boat! Unless you can hoist it aboard a ship”. 18 July 1945.
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"Did you hear the one about the WAVES out on the sea?"...
Work crew at the Krupp factory steel press bending the Tiger Tank turret.
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