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23rd August 2014, 12:19 PM #1
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23rd August 2014, 06:54 PM #2
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Great videos. There are a lot of council workers in the first video.
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23rd August 2014, 08:03 PM #3
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I noticed something interesting at 49 seconds in the second video. Can anyone pick it?
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23rd August 2014, 08:08 PM #4
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Do you mean the dog on the drill?
Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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23rd August 2014, 08:36 PM #5
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Yep thats it. I have never seen or heard of that before. I guess most of the lathes back then didn't have the tang slot in the tailstock quill. Originally Posted by .RC.
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24th August 2014, 01:13 PM #6
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I do the same on my chinko lathe when using large drills, my brother clued me in about the problem that chinese lathes will often shear the quill key when drilling large holes. Originally Posted by snapatap
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24th August 2014, 05:15 PM #7
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You know, that was 1945.
70 years ago.
The quality of the gear they were using looks absolutely first rate. With the rubbish now spewing out of China now, I wonder if these kinds of high-precision tech works even truly exist - other than specialised small shops. This has the feel that the whole industry took pride in its manufacturing - unlike today.
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24th August 2014, 05:41 PM #8
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7,000 ton press, controlled by a fella using arm and hand signals to fellow workers operating 250 ton cranes in perfect tandem to stamp a huge ingot.
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24th August 2014, 05:57 PM #9
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OH&S
26 minutes in! this HUMONGOUS chunk of steel and they are casually tossing branches onto an exploding monster! 27 minutes, he kicks a giant chunk of red hot beam to the right direction with his foot!!!!
Man, those blokes must have been tough. Imagine the ear shattering noise.
Unreal.
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24th August 2014, 06:40 PM #10
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Modern shops found out pride does not make you money... You can still buy top quality items, and the consumer may complain about the price, but I look at it this way... How many of us could afford what we own today if everything we own was made in a first world country, to first world wages and conditions.. Originally Posted by Evanism
Our workshops would look like our fathers did, bare basic workshop with only the bare essentials, because that was all that could be afforded..Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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