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    Remington Arms Auction, Ilion, New York

    In Poughkeepsie - along with BAR and 20 mm cannon according to the old timer I shared an office with when I hired in down there in 1974. Remington Rand (as well as several other companies) in Syracuse made a lot of M1911A1 at their typewriter plant during the war - more than once during my...
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    Moving out the Boxcar Machine Shop, Approximate date of Brown & Sharpe magnetic chuck

    Joe - It figures you would have had fun with UPS. Although not UPS it has to do with being a PE - your shipping story reminded me of this event in my past. I was a new employee in an odd ball engineering department in Poughkeepsie at IBM (they had eliminated the job and department they hired...
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    0t--Russian mobile rail machine shops--WW1

    Jholland - Very interesting video - thanks for posting the link. My grandfather was born in 1878 and served in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry in the late 1890s - he was from what is now Slovenia. Luckily he missed the fun of WW1 as he was a coal miner in SE Ohio by that time. My grandmother...
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    Jig borer heaven

    The plant my Dad worked at was built in 1957 and they had an open house a year or two later; I can remember him taking us around - I was about 10. There was a brand new SIP and I can remember him telling how it had a totally separate foundation isolating it from the rest of the building, super...
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    Koch test indicator

    DTB - Take a look at this if you have 15 minutes. Will give you an idea of indicators. Dale
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    Trying to clear loft, sell OG redwood

    Stephen - I can remember being shocked the summer of 1978 when we were building our house. The cheapest siding available was redwood clapboard. So that is what went on. Of course being young and dumb I did not do the best siding job but it lasted 35 years. Dale
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    Can someone explain how worn out 155mm artillery barrels are rebored??

    Have to laugh - it seems most of those of us with direct knowledge of artillery tube maintenance on here all cut our teeth in the Nam era. My only visit to the Arsenal at Watervliet was in the spring of 1969 - so talk about dated. We did get to see the then new processes used on gun tubes...
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    My 'New' 70 Year Old Heavy 10

    M.B. (and anyone else who is interested) - It dawned on me that I posted the 'pictures' part of the manual but not the parts listing. Just in case that manual disappears in the future here are pages 24 through 30 that have a line item list of the pieces with description. I have not studied...
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    My 'New' 70 Year Old Heavy 10

    N.B - I was thinking earlier today that if you didn't respond to this thread I was going to send you a PM to let you know I had tripped over the manual. I printed off the pages of the manual pertaining to the lathe and took them out to the shop. But even a retired guy gets side tracked and I...
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    Another South Bend Babe

    Joe - Well, I conked out a little before midnight last night - since we're about 100 miles as the crow flies apart and I remembered your annual New Years 'fire mission' the friendly fire or yours did not wake me up. It's funny how similar yet different family experiences can be. On my Dad's...
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    Another South Bend Babe

    Limy, Joe, Ramsay I always get a chuckle out of these pictures. Can't blame the guys for getting good looking women for staged pictures. Here's a real life one. My grandmother came to the United States as an immigrant young woman at age 19. In 1944 she was working at Cleveland Hardware and...
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    My 'New' 70 Year Old Heavy 10

    SLK001 - Yep, time flies when you're having fun. What started this is my searching for information on the taper attachment. That is the one part I have never hooked up - have to make a tie rod and pour the babbitt. Have never needed it so never did that one step. Now I do need it so time to...
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    My 'New' 70 Year Old Heavy 10

    And here are the last few pages.
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    My 'New' 70 Year Old Heavy 10

    Now for the true nerds who chase such things (I'm talking about myself here) I was looking for something else on my computer earlier and fell down a rabbit hole - and found something I've been searching for since I got this lathe. I believe that earlier in this thread I mentioned that I even...
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    New Old Stock Starret vises

    Joe - If you ever figure it out be sure to let us know - I've been contemplating that for years and am no closer to an answer. Especially when I've been standing in some distant places looking at situations rarely seen here.
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    Veterans Day

    Jim - As another has said, you are honoring him by remembering him. That is the important part. There's an old saying that you die twice - the second time the last time anyone says your name. I've had the honor to present flags to next of kin at burials for Army veterans, including the family...
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    Scrap or sell 6061 drops.................

    Dave - Arrived today - you are training good packers, was in great shape. And the aluminum looks great. Thanks. Dale
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    need help wiring an Arco phase converter

    Rick - I looked earlier today and was going to reply. After seeing your post from this morning Ron beat me to it. I hope you slow down a bit - don't mean to insult you but how much wiring have you done? Just 'hooking up' and 'try it with my breaker switch to see if it starts' when dealing...
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    need help wiring an Arco phase converter

    Rick - All my documentation is out in the shop and I have not had to mess with mine in a few years. I have a 20 HP and can't remember the model. Just checking their web site the documentation does not seem to be posted like it used to be. I did have good luck talking to one of their...
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    WWII Springfield lathe help

    I agree with the opinions above - and can attest looking for information can really send you down rat holes. My Heavy 10 lathe started life being installed in an Army machine shop truck in early 1945. Said truck was surplused to a school district in the late 1960s according to a long time...

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