School Machine Shop Photos

Engine Room Artificer

Hot Rolled

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Gosport Hampshire UK

• Jun 12, 2007

• #1

Work took me to the Naval School of Marine Engineering yesterday where I did my apprenticeship.

As I had my camera in the car I took some pics of the machine shop where i spent a few hours learning this and that. Pictures taken at lunch time hence looks like a ghost town!

I think they are all self explanatory.

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MattW

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Fairfield, PA, USA

• Jun 12, 2007

• #2

Wow! Great pics of a beautiful shop!

 

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Dan from Oakland

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Oakland, CA

• Jun 12, 2007

• #3

Wow is an understatement!
Any of you guys wonder if there are any schools like that left in the USA???- Nice to see that there is a facility like this still in operation.

Do you have a better picture of the green machine in the 1st picture- it appears to be a very nice small horiz. boring mill.

Again- thanks for the look.

Dan

 

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Knguyen

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Bergen, NJ.

• Jun 12, 2007

• #4

Sweet!! Those ajax look mighty good. Thanks for the pictures.

 

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J.Ramsey

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Kansas

• Jun 12, 2007

• #5

Shop looks really super,I think you were spoiled rotten while you were there,thanks for the pictures.

 

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bryan_machine

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Near Seattle

• Jun 12, 2007

• #6

What is the green machine in the middle of the first picture? Looks too square to be a lathe? Some sort of horizontal boring mill?

 

enginebuilder

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Kalispell, Montana

• Jun 13, 2007

• #7

WoW! What a playpen.
So, the red buttons on the floor by all the machines, the OH SH!T button?
Jim

 

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Asquith

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Somerset, UK

• Jun 13, 2007

• #8

The green machine in the first photo is indeed a horizontal borer. Made by Kearns-Richards, Manchester. I've never seen one that small before. Looks as though it would be handy on a small ship.

 

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2tenths

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Dec 15, 2006

Location

Connecticut

• Jun 14, 2007

• #9

That's what I call an apprenticeship. How do i get in.


Does anyone know if the US has any schools like this?

 

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RickWG

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Jul 10, 2007

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So Cal

• Jul 30, 2007

• #10

Is that in Pompey Dockyard???

 

Engine Room Artificer

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Feb 28, 2007

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Gosport Hampshire UK

• Jul 31, 2007

• #11

Rick,

No not in Pompey (Portsmouth) Dockyard but what is now called the Defence Electro-Mechanical school in Gosport and is sometimes referred to as HMS Sultan.

Al

 

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RickWG

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• Jul 31, 2007

• #12

okee doke. My dad was a 'tiffy back in the day. Served on Troubridge, Bulwark, Hampshire & London. My sister was christened on the London in '68... She's now a Obersturmfuhrer with the Inland Revenue in Cosham.
I've been to Sultan, Collingwood etc when I was a nipper (& too young to appreciate it) living on Rowner (when it was still being built). Dad was based at Excellent tho being a Gunnery Chief. Now he lives next to the HMS Cambridge gunnery range outside Guz (Heybrook Bay/Wembury).

 

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Jeff_G

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Granite, MD USA

• Nov 30, 2007

• #13

The little HBM in Asquith's picture looks to me like a Lincoln-style milling machine, one of the first commercially successful machine tools, which predated Brown & Sharpe's knee mill. Does the machine in the picture have a quill?

 

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Markusfu

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ohio-USA

• Nov 30, 2007

• #14

time and date of the last post????

I don't know what brought this to my attention but the last post was 12-01-2007 and today is still Nov 30, 2007?????????


go figure --- ???????? it was made in Maryland USA



Markus

 

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ToolMann

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Sandusky Ohio

• Nov 17, 2008

• #15

If there was ever such a thing as machine porn....this would be it!

 

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Victor A

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Jul 19, 2007

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EL Paso TX

• Dec 3, 2008

• #16

I wish my school had all that. Machine porn indeed.

 

gearmac

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Canada

• Dec 27, 2008

• #17

one stop work shop!

Very nice school yard you got there! Exactly what the world needs to fill the need for young, humble, dynamic and talented machinists.

 

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chainz

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Seattle

• Dec 29, 2008

• #18

Surplus? Please!!!

All I wanna know is when is their "Surplus Sale"

 

ARB

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Granville,NY,USA

• Dec 29, 2008

• #19

Asquith said:

The green machine in the first photo is indeed a horizontal borer. Made by Kearns-Richards, Manchester. I've never seen one that small before. Looks as though it would be handy on a small ship.

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Just what I was thinking. Like My shop!


Nice looking machinery!

 

DBurnette

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Portland, OR

• Jan 19, 2009

• #20

chainz:

Take a look at govliquidation.com

They are the folks that auction off surplus military stuffs. They sell everything from machine tools to boats to ammo boxes (by the pallet) to underwear. I see machine tools come up occasionally. I got a good deal on an o'scope and some anvil cases a few years ago.