[modeleng] Re: Adept/Super Adept lathes
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2006 10:10:06 -0800 (PST)
IF time travel was possible, and IF some of today's
machinists could be dropped into a machine shop of
1906, how many of them would survive until Lunch time
without being fired for incompetence, due to their
lack of knowledge/skill of "Bench work", such as
chipping and filing, and/or making the tools needed to
do the job?
Al Messer
--- Harry Wade <hww@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 08:16 AM 1/1/06 -0800, you wrote:
> >Alan, I whole heartedly concur. It is the MAN, not
> >the machine - Al
>
> Just try to explain or defend that to these
> live steam folks who
> swear to newcomers (and oldcomers) that they won't
> be able to do anything
> without a 14" geared head lathe and Bridgeport.
> My favorite story appeared in Model Engineer
> years ago, in the early
> 1960's anyway, I can't recall exactly when. It was
> a write-up of a rather
> large (approx 10" flywheel) model Corliss engine
> made by John A. Pickles of
> Barnoldswick. The history on Pickles is that he was
> apprenticed from age
> 14 in the Lancashire mills and eventually became a
> well known engine
> builder as Henry Brown & Son & Pickles. The model,
> which was complex and
> from the photographs looked as finely made and
> accurate as any I've seen,
> was made entirely in his modest shed workshop using
> only hand tools and a
> breast drill. His only departure from that was to
> accept the offer of the
> use of a friend's treadle lathe to turn the flywheel
> rim and he was not
> pleased to have that known.
>
> Regards,
> Harry
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