Here is some metal working eye candy
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OctaneMotorsports
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Ugh...be right back 
hahaha
That's effin' ****.
hahahaThat's effin' ****.
chevy302dz
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That's a nice machine, Monarchs are built like tanks
W-Cummins said:
I just fooled my wife by showing her the picture and telling her to look at what i just got for the garage (she saw the blue Lista cabinets and thought it was my garage...doh). That was fun...
Don't know anything about those lathes, but it sure does look cool.
Sa-weet! Nice to see the those ol' work horses still around.
I sell CNC machines for a living, and even I will admit that these new fangled, computer controlled, ultra-fast rapid rate beasts have nothing on the old machines when it comes to one thing.
Soul.
Oh the stories I bet those two machines could tell.
I sell CNC machines for a living, and even I will admit that these new fangled, computer controlled, ultra-fast rapid rate beasts have nothing on the old machines when it comes to one thing.
Soul.
Oh the stories I bet those two machines could tell.
kartracer55
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-lecroix- said:
Hell yeah! I was learning how to run a lathe wednesday night and made my first project. Ironically, it was some sort of large bushing for a PTO that the instructor needed made for the next morning lol. Either way, its an old Southbend machine. Dont know the size, or the exact age, but its huge. I couldnt imagine the parts that have been made on it. All the people who have used it, and how the little parts that have been made by it have touched so many people's lives without anybody realizing it.
Jim
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Thats a really nice machine
wilbilt said:What about this turret lathe being run by someone's great grandmother back in WWII? Old machines are a living, breathing, connection to our history. So many young people these days just don't get it.
Where'd you get that pict?!? That's pretty cool. Almost doesn't look like it's from WWII?
In a weird way....kinda ****... with all that machine oil on her arms.
bmwpower said:
It came from the National Archives site....I think. I'll try to find and post a link. There was a whole section devoted to color photos of women's contributions to the war effort.
Most of the photos of that era that you see are in black and white. I think the color ones really bring the history to life. Here's another one.
Here it is. It took me awhile to find it. It's the Library of Congress site. Searching it is a bit...intimidating.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall:0:./temp/~ammem_1Y2J:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall:0:./temp/~ammem_1Y2J:
The absence of safety glasses on these pictures is rather striking. Makes me shudder,, thank goodness you don’t see that today.
Peter on Practical Machinist’s board posted a slide show of a local junk yard he visited over his lunch hour. It was so depressing to see all that old iron rusting, tossed around and waiting to be melted down. A heartfelt moment for sure, as I recognized the machines of yesterday from my youth. It makes me feel good that I saved but a few pieces from their fate.
http://home.comcast.net/~steamtruckin1/Scrap_yard/main_file.htm
Peter on Practical Machinist’s board posted a slide show of a local junk yard he visited over his lunch hour. It was so depressing to see all that old iron rusting, tossed around and waiting to be melted down. A heartfelt moment for sure, as I recognized the machines of yesterday from my youth. It makes me feel good that I saved but a few pieces from their fate.
http://home.comcast.net/~steamtruckin1/Scrap_yard/main_file.htm
eschoendorff
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Those photos are cool... but ****???? Dude, that's someone's grandma!
eschoendorff said:
Yea, but someone's grandma might have been some ********* way back then. I don't want to know what she looks like now, but I find a chick working on one of those machines ****. A chick doesn't have to be **** or in a bikini to be ****...at least to me.
kartracer55
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OldCarGuy said:The absence of safety glasses on these pictures is rather striking. Makes me shudder,, thank goodness you don’t see that today.
Peter on Practical Machinist’s board posted a slide show of a local junk yard he visited over his lunch hour. It was so depressing to see all that old iron rusting, tossed around and waiting to be melted down. A heartfelt moment for sure, as I recognized the machines of yesterday from my youth. It makes me feel good that I saved but a few pieces from their fate.
http://home.comcast.net/~steamtruckin1/Scrap_yard/main_file.htm
THATS Fawking depressing right there.
chevy302dz
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OldCarGuy said:The absence of safety glasses on these pictures is rather striking. Makes me shudder,, thank goodness you don’t see that today.
Peter on Practical Machinist’s board posted a slide show of a local junk yard he visited over his lunch hour. It was so depressing to see all that old iron rusting, tossed around and waiting to be melted down. A heartfelt moment for sure, as I recognized the machines of yesterday from my youth. It makes me feel good that I saved but a few pieces from their fate.
http://home.comcast.net/~steamtruckin1/Scrap_yard/main_file.htm
What a waste