Interesting video

Awesome old school, where we all came from, and have just been reminded of. :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Five Thumbs Up.
 
Being an ex-machinist myself that was nice to see. I didn't know there was still a Shop in business useing belt driven lathes. Thanks for sharing.
 
Memory lane

My Dad was a welder, machinist, sheetmetal man, auto-tractor-truck mechanic. He built rocket test sleds and antenna systems.. in Greenland and Hawaii, and full scale Russian MIG jet mockups for radar signature testing..

A farm boy from North Carolina who spent a lot of time plowing tobacco fields behind a mule named Sadie..My Dad would have loved to see this video of this kind of classic American craftsmanship and shade tree engineering...and so do I.

Watching this, you can almost smell the cutting oils, heavy lube greases, hot cut metal sparks flying...that a shop like that would have..

Thanks for putting this up.
 
Those belts make my 16/24's belt look like a rubber band.....had an old drill press from that cira. Most of the machines like that are or have been scrapped working or not sad to say. American machinery has always been among the best but as things go a CNC machine has allowed me to fall into a lathe. (now if a mill would fall LOL)
 
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Dang it 3railkick----

3RAILKICK said:
My Dad was a welder, machinist, sheetmetal man, auto-tractor-truck mechanic. He built rocket test sleds and antenna systems.. in Greenland and Hawaii, and full scale Russian MIG jet mockups for radar signature testing..

A farm boy from North Carolina who spent a lot of time plowing tobacco fields behind a mule named Sadie..My Dad would have loved to see this video of this kind of classic American craftsmanship and shade tree engineering...and so do I.

Watching this, you can almost smell the cutting oils, heavy lube greases, hot cut metal sparks flying...that a shop like that would have..

Thanks for putting this up.
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I'm from NC and been here all 56 years and your dad sounds a whole lot like mine he welded pipe and built race cars for nascar drivers (Fireball Roberts and Buck Baker) the most famous he helped. And he farmed with my grandpa in Marshville NC before he became a job super for JD Stacy Corp. and built paper mills all over the world.--Leonard










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