NJ Mountain Man
Plastic
- Joined
- Jul 23, 2009
- Location
- New Jersey
Long time Lurker, Infrequent Poster. I have been to quite a few antique machinery museums and shows, and I have never seen any early NC lathes / mills out there. I was wondering if anyone out there still has a NC Lathe or Mill still out there operating. I guess technically the NC age started in 1949 with John Parsons and a Cincinnati Hydro-Tel Milling machine so I think this thread would be appropriate for this forum.
I am probably one of the younger guys collecting old machines, and have hoarded a bunch of antique machines. I was going through some paperwork at my grandmothers house, and I found my grandfathers NC training certificate from the 60's. It makes me wonder with all the commotion about robots "taking over jobs" lately that a huge part of our history in regards to Numerical Control is sort of forgotten. My grandfather would be close to 100 years old, I wonder how many guys are out there that ran these machines?
I am probably one of the younger guys collecting old machines, and have hoarded a bunch of antique machines. I was going through some paperwork at my grandmothers house, and I found my grandfathers NC training certificate from the 60's. It makes me wonder with all the commotion about robots "taking over jobs" lately that a huge part of our history in regards to Numerical Control is sort of forgotten. My grandfather would be close to 100 years old, I wonder how many guys are out there that ran these machines?