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BNJOMAKR - Posted - 07/07/2011: 11:33:54
Wow! It looks like a mechanized Guillotine! 
steve davis - Posted - 07/07/2011: 13:27:36
Wow...back when machines were machines.
Mopick - Posted - 07/07/2011: 13:36:29
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Originally posted by steve davis
Wow...back when machines were machines.
One of my first jobs out of college was as a CNC technician in a machine shop. That was cool but I wanted to be a machinist. I can still smell the machine oil and feel the stainless steel chips in my shoe. Women and a lathe are the only two things that can reproduce themselves, that's what my school shop teacher used to say.
banjodawg - Posted - 07/07/2011: 13:52:41
Mopick wrote: "Women and a lathe are the only two things that can reproduce themselves, that's what my school shop teacher used to say. "
That's funny! They don't even offer shop classes anymore in our high schools. What a shame.
steve davis - Posted - 07/07/2011: 13:58:25
I love machines,too.I got to study auto technology at SMVTI which was in South Portland.Good equipment for the day.I learned rod reconditioning,valve and seat grinding(3 angles,1 degree interference on the face to seat),distributor recurving,Clayton dyno,acetylene welding,etc.
I barely made it out of high school,but I got on the Dean's list a couple of times at SMVTI...loved it.
roxygrl - Posted - 07/07/2011: 14:14:07
Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. ..299 years ago in Pawtucket Rhode Island in 1793. ...I’m from Rhode Island and I never knew that ..Na nah na na nah ! ....
Mopick - Posted - 07/07/2011: 14:28:49
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Originally posted by roxygrl
Thomas Newcomen invented the atmospheric steam engine in 1712. ..299 years ago in Pawtucket Rhode Island in 1793. ...I’m from Rhode Island and I never knew that ..Na nah na na nah ! ....
That machine changed the world and powered the industrial revolution.
rbergesch - Posted - 07/07/2011: 15:16:13
Not any guards visible on that old sucker; I bet it has tasted some blood in its time, along with all the bread... Still, it looks like a fascinating piece of machinery.
I believe men especially are susceptible to the lure of fine machines, and machinery in general. At one time I owned a couple of big-assed sheet-fed printing presses, and a lot of other related equipment. I used to love to hear them all cranking at full speed, (or at least as fast as it was safe to run them given we were running heavy paperboard stock,) and figuring out how to keep them maintained while still getting good production. All our equipment was old, and required some creative tinkering to keep in production.
Felt the some of the same emotion looking inside old mechanical watches, or even just adding oil into a Mercedes Benz diesel I had for a couple years; good functional machinery is really neat; and I haven't met many women who relate to it in quite the same way!!!
And then you take a well-made banjo, like a my Cox or a classic Gibson... What a marvelous thing...
Edited by - rbergesch on 07/07/2011 15:22:26
steve davis - Posted - 07/07/2011: 15:55:33
Our Director at SMVTI,James Johnson,built his own car from scratch in the late 50s.He was still driving it to school in the 70s.He was always working on a new invention and was a member of the S.A.E.
Brian T - Posted - 07/07/2011: 16:25:01
Of course there are no guards on that machine.
They stole the idea from the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition.
The plan was to stick fingers in it.
The only bread better than sliced bread is home-made.
After a week on the road, I got back home late last night, bought both bread and milk.
The bread really stinks when toasted. . . . how disappointing.
fivebranch - Posted - 07/07/2011: 16:43:56
I must politely disagree with you Mopick the greatest thing SINCE slice bread is the Peanut butter and jelly(or Jam) that goes between the slices
rbergesch - Posted - 07/07/2011: 20:40:53
Pretty neat, Steve... Did he really start with chunks of metal and metal and machine the whole damned thing, boring out the cylinders, machining the cylinder heads, machining gears and all the rest? I guess that's what guys like Henry Ford, the Wright Bros, & Gottlieb Daimler did a hundred years ago. With a modern shop, maybe it was a bit easier. Still, I'm very impressed. Love those Mainers...
donc - Posted - 07/07/2011: 22:03:36
"best thing since sliced bread". Check out this current commercial from my previous employer. youtube.com/watch?v=xAvyHZ2D0wA
Edited by - donc on 07/07/2011 22:04:20
Robxx - Posted - 07/08/2011: 00:14:43
Thomas Newcomen inventor of the atmospheric steam engine was born in Dartmouth Devon in 1664 died 1729 in North London buried at Bunhill Fields Cemetery North London.
James Watt a Scottish engineer improved the design and patented it in 1769.
steve davis - Posted - 07/08/2011: 06:07:05
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Originally posted by rbergesch
Pretty neat, Steve... Did he really start with chunks of metal and metal and machine the whole damned thing, boring out the cylinders, machining the cylinder heads, machining gears and all the rest? I guess that's what guys like Henry Ford, the Wright Bros, & Gottlieb Daimler did a hundred years ago. With a modern shop, maybe it was a bit easier. Still, I'm very impressed. Love those Mainers...
He used many existing parts,including a flathead ford engine.He fabricated the frame,front-end,body by hand to specs necessary for legal titling and sticker.
Excuse me for the word "scratch".Mr. Johnson was an engineering genius,author and inventor.
Klondike Waldo - Posted - 07/08/2011: 17:06:22
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Originally posted by steve davis
Our Director at SMVTI,James Johnson,built his own car from scratch in the late 50s.He was still driving it to school in the 70s.He was always working on a new invention and was a member of the S.A.E.
My Dad's uncle, Frank Joyce was an inventor. Among his inventions was an early automatic transmission for automobiles, an orange Juice vending machine for the New York World's Fair, and the process to record on both sides of the disk, when he worked for Gray Gull Records. He used to take his car completely apart for the Winter and reassemble it in the Spring- that was in the 1920s
hsjim - Posted - 07/08/2011: 22:06:05
No, No, The Best thing since sliced bread IS ..........crushed ice on a hot day!!
