How grain mill motors are bulit

[Ducatiboy stu]

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons

 

[shaunous]

That is cool!

 

[Liam_snorkel]

those people are TINY

 

[pnorkle]

Note the extensive use of protective eye-wear..

 

[Dave70]

Wow. How did I miss this one..

Apparently fitters & turners of the Doxford Engine Works had swarf resistant eyeballs to.

 

[mje1980]

Pretty cool, reminds me of my apprenticeship. Not quite as many lathes or as big as some of those big ones, but big enough that to measure the bore on some of the jobs I had to climb inside the bore with a 1.2m long inside micrometer. How the **** you're supposed to accurately measure with a 1.2m long inside micrometer I have no idea haha.

I only spent my 1st year in the machine shop, after that it was out on the plant, where micrometers were still in their shiny packets, screwdrivers were used as mini pinch bars, and a 12" shifter was a hammer, pinch bar and just about every other type of tool at some stage. I still carry one in my pocket, though these days it's a fancy bahco wide mouth one.

 

[Seaquebrew]

Pretty cool, reminds me of my apprenticeship. Not quite as many lathes or as big as some of those big ones, but big enough that to measure the bore on some of the jobs I had to climb inside the bore with a 1.2m long inside micrometer. How the **** you're supposed to accurately measure with a 1.2m long inside micrometer I have no idea haha.
I only spent my 1st year in the machine shop, after that it was out on the plant, where micrometers were still in their shiny packets, screwdrivers were used as mini pinch bars, and a 12" shifter was a hammer, pinch bar and just about every other type of tool at some stage. I still carry one in my pocket, though these days it's a fancy bahco wide mouth one.

Steelhaven, No. 1 Machine Shop ?

 

[mje1980]

Yep steelhaven . You too?. 1999 was my 1st year. I'm still one of the younger fitters haha

 

[Seaquebrew]

1983

Great training, chiseling round bar square, tolerance filing ...........

Unspeakable acts of victimisation for poor behaviour and performance

Ahhhh the good old days

 

[mje1980]

We didn't have to do the round bar to square thing. Lucky in one way, though there are a lot of things we weren't taught compared to the older blokes. Now apprentices get taught even less. Makes them look dumb, sometimes they are, but often they just haven't been shown, and have to figure it out themselves.

 

[Seaquebrew]

It's a shame, a lot of skills are being lost

Hand making and fitting keys, scraping white metal bearings, non CNC machining etc.

Still it is good fun to win bets off younger people who don't think you can split a 5/8" nut with a chisel in 2 strikes