Showing posts with label machine shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machine shop. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
Sunday, February 23, 2025
a 10 year scale model diorama of a machine shop, just WOW. I admire everything going on here.. The GB Machine Works Co. (Click on each image for a full screen version)
1500 hrs of machining, scratch making, and building the machine shop in 1/12th scale.
All machines are copies of a real machine (see the last image in this gallery for the list…) for instance, the mill is in the Ford Museum.
All power take offs work, tables with ”T” slots, and there is an office with a ceiling fan in the office run by the overhead belting system, and a roll top desk with a bottle of Scotch in the bottom drawer for bad days.
All drawings are the blueprints used for machining, just reduced in size. There is one part on each machine station, being machined.
The time clock has time cards with names of friends who also machine things.
The machine shop cat has not seen the rat yet under the work bench.
see many close up photos at https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10213604420981578&set=pcb.24120031037586777
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
L.L Hodge Machine Works in Montgomery has been in business since 1897
The back of the shop was older than 1897 and used as a repair shop for steam locomotives before it was purchased to expand the machine shop. A lot of the equipment is original and still working to this day! A few pieces worked on steam and the pipes are still there, but when they got electricity flowing, they installed Model A transmissions to run the machines. In one of the photos, you can see the shifter bent down so they can change gears. If they want different speeds, they stop the machine and change the gear.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Zeppo Marx owned this 67 Mustang, in his Palm Springs home, where he was Frank Sinatra's next door neighbor
His home was built along a fairway at the Tamarisk Country Club, although he used to hang out with friends Jack Benny, Danny Kaye, Sid Caesar, and Milton Berle.
His neighbor was Frank Sinatra, who actually ended up marrying Zeppos first wife Barbara after their divorce, which was a product of Frank and Barbara's extra-marital affair.
Which is cool, but did you know that in 1941, Zeppo met an aircraft executive at the racetrack, who said: “We’re very shy of machine shops and machinists,” the Douglas Aircraft man confides, “and I hear you have your own shop.”
Before you know it, Zeppo is machining parts for DC-3s at his lathe in the family garage, and founds an aerospace manufacturing firm, Marman Products
He also invented a cardiac pulse rate monitor
Thursday, March 11, 2021
not sure why this is making a twist on the sheet metal, for 20 foot sections, or more... but it's impressive to look at on the job
Friday, February 05, 2021
Sunday, August 16, 2020
I wonder how many of these the Army sent out in WW2? 4th Australian Armoured Brigade. They saw action in New Guinea at Buna, Finschafen, Torokina and Wewak, later in New Brittan and Borneo. (Thanks Al and Gary!)
The marking is a crocodile under a palm tree with a boomerang underneath that
https://www.forcbodiesonly.com/mopar-forum/threads/some-more-classic-pictures.40139/page-5
Friday, January 17, 2020
Jerry scored a monster of an old Monarch lathe. A late 30s 84" by 16"
after making munitions for the Navy in WW2, and Korea, this beast went off to a college for students to learn on... so, 8 years full duty for the war effort, and maybe 50 or 60 for students to learn on.
You know, just about broken in by now... and Jerry bought it for 13k
Lucky bastard.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1687664214819261/permalink/2498849537034054/
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Sunday, June 17, 2018
South Bend's road show for lathes and drill press
a trailer that has been specially outfitted to enable South Bend to take its product line on the road and let prospective customers see, touch, and operate its range of machinery that includes, lathes, a milling machine, drill presses and a grinder.
In addition, tooling and attachments for the machines are displayed in glazed cabinets on the walls.
Mounted behind the cab on the tractor is an engine-driven generator that produced electricity which illuminated the interior of the trailer with ceiling lights and spot lamps and allowed the machines to be operated. It also appears to have a heating and air conditioning unit built into the front of the trailer.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/stiffspeed/permalink/1447310588748886/
https://machinistlife.tumblr.com/post/174980307959/this-series-of-photos-show-a-trailer-that-has-been#notes
Friday, September 01, 2017
NOW we're talking... a lathe on a Jeep.... in some war. That's about a testosterone filled as it can get without Goldberg machining something
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/8871040-post31960.html
Australian, 4th Armored, who did a lot of this type of innovation, so sayeth the commentors. Thanks!
Sunday, July 30, 2017
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Wednesday, January 04, 2017
hope for a loophole in the rules, then exploit it. But don't think you're going to just buy some property to make a private museum without the neighbors causing problems
When Peter Mullins wanted to make an underground garage for a dozen of his prize Bugatti and other exotic French classics below his bungalow house in West LA, he ran into zoning laws the were possibly meant to keep people from creating earthquake related problems for houses and insurance companies.
It seems the rule is that an underground garage can only be 1/4 the size of the building above it.
That's just not going to fit more than a couple cars. So... he got a really smart architect type person who knew of a simple little loophole. A garage known as a "private museum" has no size restrictions. Problem solved.
Other people had a lot more headaches with trying to make a place for their collection, like Peter Nettesheim in Long Island, who was balked by neighbors for 5 years when he tried to build a detached garage for BMW car and motorcycle restorations. A hobby that needs some garage space. He had bought a 2 acre lot with big trees that would give some privacy screening, but without 1st getting all his plans approved.
In one corner sits the oldest BMW motorcycle to date, a 1923 R2 with a confirmation from BMW hanging above it.
Take a moment to look at http://www.ride-ct.com/?p=9364 photos of the inside of the collection garage.
Most of his vintage bikes were obtained in Germany, a couple in Poland, but none in the USA. Many of his bikes are extremely valuable, worth into six figures apiece.
Nettesheim began restoring cars, but then reality hit: “After I was done with each car, I put so much time and effort into them I couldn’t sell them. What I realized was that I didn’t have enough garage space. So I started doing motorcycles; you can fit more inside the garage.”
By the mid-1990s, Nettesheim, whose day job is as the Freightliner dealer for Long Island, N.Y., had an architect draw up plans for a 32-by-48-foot two-story barn with two doors at one end. “It is the largest legal garage in town,” says Nettesheim. He has 53 motorcycles and four cars at his home, and he says that is only three-quarters of what he has.
http://www.garagestylemagazine.com/ Garage style magazine Fall 2010 issue
http://autoweek.com/article/new-yorkers-bmw-passion-fills-two-garages
http://www.motorcycleclassics.com/classic-german-motorcycles/classic-bmw-motorcycles-zmmz07jfzraw
http://www.limws.org/Thumbnail-folders/Nettesheim/index.html
http://tbrnewsmedia.com/museum-like-house-holds-huge-collection-of-bmw-motorcycles/
Monday, July 11, 2016
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