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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: twowings on March 09, 2016, 12:01:51 PM
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Thought some of the older guys (and I include myself) here might enjoy this:
(http://theoldmotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Auto-Machine-Shop-Line-Boring-in-1931-1080x650.jpg)
Full article found here:
http://theoldmotor.com/?p=155784 (http://theoldmotor.com/?p=155784)
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I've ran a Landis grinder like this.. :smiley:
(http://theoldmotor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Landis-Crankshaft-Grinder-760x596.jpg)
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Very little of this remaining. Labour has become deskilled. Just push this button. . .
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Skilled machinists are still around. A tour of your local automotive machine shop may surprise you. But you sure won't see machines to cam grind pistons!
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AAAAHHH! The good old days when a machinist poured his own babbit. Had to cringe when I saw the open belts and the operator wearing a shop coat.
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Yeah, our modern health and safety codes that people whinge about began back in those days of three-fingered and one-armed, one-eyed machinists.
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Or you could do it like Burt Munro by casting your pistons in a can and turning them on a home made lathe.
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Sorry HA but I must disagree. The people that program 7 axis mill turn machines are highly skilled - just different skills
TJ I know of 2 companies over here that can cam turn piston rings so not all the more obscure techniques are dead
There's room for and a need for all
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I understand, Tris. You just don' t normally find things like that in a typical automotive machine shop now. Model shops and prototype shops can have some neat stuff though. Back when I was in college, the process for making prototype boat propellers could be pretty skill oriented, with a lot of hand work, for example.
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Check out the bloke in the tie. He could be your doctor if his coat was cleaner :grin:
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Thanks for the posting twowings. Great old photos.
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I've been a printer; done just about every task and phase. In the olden days if one needed type for some specific use, then that person would have to count the words in the provided copy - separating body from head from any sub heads. That someone would have to judge which type faces and versions would look nice and be readable and attractive within the setting. The person had to know what sort of thing the type had to fit: column width and total inches. Are there multiple columns assigned and if so are they adjacent or on different pages? What does the layout actually look like. Correct spellings and or errors in grammar in the copy.
Then the math began. How many words, how many headers or footers or whatever? What is the X height of the type face and style and size chosen, what will be the intended leading and how much space after any heads? Run the math and see how many inches you have versus how many you need; then compare these and make a better guess at type specifications. Try to not have clumsy paragraph breaks at the bottoms or tops of columns. Get it worked out. Then hand corrected copy along with your specifications to the typesetter. You want it right because whether the typesetter is operating a real Linotype or Intertype hot type machine a more modern Linotype Hell Phototypestter; your company has paid for the output and will not want to buy a second run because you're not such a good typographer...and that was a position and a trade and a good one...and I was one.
Now type it all in to a page layout programme and let the software do the work and it is so easy and so many printed things look like hell because too many types and no consideration of type on a real page with contrast between stock and ink. There may still be skills in printing, but they ain't the same.
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I learned with a California Job Case and a composing stick, but it was only junior high school printing class. :grin:
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cool historical pics. There are still so many craftsman (women) it will always produce a job market. A craftswoman built my aluminum tank for my guzzi
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I had a Van Norman piston turning and grinding machine with full sets of dies for cam grinding Pistons for Indians,Studebakers on and on.I traded it for some head work because at the time I didn't have a place for it. It weighed about 1500 pounds. Enjoyable to fool around with, wish I still had it
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I had a Van Norman piston turning and grinding machine with full sets of dies for cam grinding Indians,Studebakers on and on.I traded it for some head work because at the time I didn't have a place for it. It weighed about 1500 pounds. Enjoyable to fool around with, wish I still had it
I'd pay admission to see that thing in operation.
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anyone know of where I can get old con rods from a Triumph 650 re-babbited?
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Both my manual mill (1893 Becker) and my manual lathe (1927 P&W) are wonderful machines still. Although the Becker has had its overhead belt replaced with a modern electric motor.
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anyone know of where I can get old con rods from a Triumph 650 re-babbited?
If ya just gotta , Paul's Rod and Bearing , Parkville MO. I would get the machine work done and convert to inserts .
Dusty