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    interior of a machine shop

    https://www.shorpy.com/node/27038?si...iginal#caption

    dave
    Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to)
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    That's a lot of belts.
    Follow along as my dog and I travel the country in our van.
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    • #3
      Neat picture, Dave.


      Originally posted by Rick View Post
      That's a lot of belts.
      And that was quite a boon to the tanning industry!
      Bruce

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      • BurleyJim
        #3.1
        BurleyJim commented
        03-22-2023, 02:10 PM
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        Up until about 30 years ago, there still was place next to the International Harvester truck shop that would make those leather belts $$$. I ended up reworking my 'big lathe' with a 5HP motor for just about the same price as a 192" X 4" wide belt. Must have come from a 'stretched steer'.
    • #4
      Fascinating......thanks for the photo Dave.
      Gregory P. DeMayo
      Chairman of the Board
      St. Louis & Denver Railroad Corporation
      Longwood, FL

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      • #5
        You've posted this photo before, have you started the model yet?

        Jim
        Take the red pill

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        • TRAINS1941
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          TRAINS1941 commented
          03-22-2023, 08:08 AM
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          Sure he has. But first he has to finish the one he started many a moon ago!
      • #6
        What struck me, by the way, is how clean the floor is, but the machines are a bit dirty/cruddy with metal shavings.

        dave
        Modeling 1890s (because the voices in my head told me to)

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        • BurleyJim
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          BurleyJim commented
          03-22-2023, 09:07 AM
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          Hard to sweep up the machines. In a real machine shop, the maintenance folks will put on their protective gear (probably a wet bandana back then) and blow every machine down with an air hose. Then they'll go and have a cigarette or two, waiting for the dust to settle. Then sprinkle some water and lightweight oil mixture on the floor covered with dust, chips, cigarette butts, etc., and push the brooms. In a large shop, the cleanup will fill up a shift.
      • #7
        Can you imagine the noise? Great pic.

        Jeff

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        • deemery
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          deemery commented
          03-22-2023, 10:04 AM
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          I suspect a bit less noisy than a textile mill. Here's the sound of -1 loom-: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xUkwivunlA Listen for the clack-clack-clack of the shuttle going back and forth once the loom is fully operational. Now imagine that x50 or x100 in the floor of a large mill building! (There was a Lowell mill tour in the NMRA NER convention a couple years ago, that included running a loom.)
      • #8
        I ran screw machines in a machine shop as a summer job. Three summers. I was given the most repetitive jobs, but at least I was allowed to sit while working. I spent much of the time thinking about what I was going to do on the weekend or running through music albums in my mind. Yes, there was lots of noise.

        My wife and I toured a historic textile mill in Salem OR and indeed, the noise of a single loom is incredible.

        Mike
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        I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now Bob Dylan
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          https://www.flickr.com/photos/railmu...8RHPxA-8RHRCC/

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