And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Action at the Mesta Gear-Cutting Department, c. 1915 Mesta Machine Company, West Homestead, Pennsylvania
Double helical cut tooth gear for an 1800 horse power gear drive
and 25-years later and several generations of Craftsmen we deservedly were known worldwide as the "Arsenal of Democracy". Then there was our grain-houses & stockyards....
Last picture is a "Bullard" lathe, not a boring mill. Part mounts vertically on platen and rotates. https://www.bourn-koch.com/the-history-of-bullard/ wildbill
Not a CNC machine, not a CAD or CAM system, not a computer or even a hand calculator in sight. I've been in and around machine shops for more than 45 years. I currently run an R&D shop for a large organization. When I think of what those men did in those days with raw skill I feel like a punk ass bitch by comparison
First picture: That is the biggest "dividing head" I've seen yet. Wow. Amazing what was done in those old factories. Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteand 25-years later and several generations of Craftsmen we deservedly were known worldwide as the "Arsenal of Democracy". Then there was our grain-houses & stockyards....
ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteits a shame that all work of this type has been outsourced to china, india nd various other "Friends" of the USA.
ReplyDeleteGleason Works is still alive in Rochester NY.
DeleteLast picture is a "Bullard" lathe, not a boring mill. Part mounts vertically on platen and rotates.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.bourn-koch.com/the-history-of-bullard/
wildbill
Yep, ran one at General Dynamics about 1/4 that size.
ReplyDeleteNot a CNC machine, not a CAD or CAM system, not a computer or even a hand calculator in sight. I've been in and around machine shops for more than 45 years. I currently run an R&D shop for a large organization. When I think of what those men did in those days with raw skill I feel like a punk ass bitch by comparison
ReplyDeletePearl Mesta's fortune. I loaded flame-cut steel shapes to be shipped to Mesta Machine (N. Tonawanda, NY?) early 70's.
ReplyDeleteThey didn't need all the 5S or Six Sigma BS either.
ReplyDeleteInterested in seeing what the overhead cranes looked like.
ReplyDeleteLine shaft lathes and other tools in the background.
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