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Offline Stuffy25thIA

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nice picture
« on: December 25, 2010, 06:22:59 AM »
Just seen this on the net, thought it was cool.

http://www.shorpy.com/node/5486?size=_original

1917. "U.S. Navy Yard, Washington. Sight shop, big gun section." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative, Library of Congress. View full size.
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Re: nice picture
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2010, 06:56:13 AM »
I'm glad I don't work in that tight a shop!   well maybe I do.....

A bit off topic ul\nless the canns are pre-1898 - which they MAY be!

Cool pix -  thanks.

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Re: nice picture
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2010, 11:03:00 PM »
Way cool.

Wouldn't it be great to work there,,,,,,,, 'Back in the day'?

You'd be getting paid to help make the machines & weapons, that were used to slaughter the enemies of freedom.
Plus!, you'd have access to all those power tools for building all of your own 'special projects',
during your Lunch Hour, or evenings & days off.
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Re: nice picture
« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2010, 03:01:07 AM »
I'am thinking that OSHA would have a fit.
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Re: nice picture
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2010, 08:01:48 AM »
      Be careful what you wish for, Ed.  Mike and I worked in an aircraft factory in North Denver back in the 80s.  The floor alone was enough to kill you!  It was made of hundreds of thousands of pieces of 2 x 4 cross-cut to 4" long and then placed on end beside one another, enough to cover about 3 acres of shop.  The really bad part of this design became apparent in the precision grinding shop where we worked, Mike in Lapping and me in I.D. and O.D. and surface grinding.  When you grind steel to close tolerances, you produce millions of tiny particles of steel and coolant mix called 'Swarf'.  This metal particle slush gets flung all over the floor surrounding the machines and is tracked all over the shop by the machinists and inspectors who work there.  The stuff makes the floor slipperier than snot!  Oh, I forgot to mention this:  The color of this floor, after 50 or 60 years, was jet black.  One slip on this floor and you were heading to the parking lot to strip down to your skivies, throw your ruined clothes in the back of your truck and drive home for a complete change of clothes!!  There were lots more dangers at this shop, far too numerous to list.

Tracy and Mike
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Re: nice picture
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2010, 03:35:23 AM »
Tracey, I worked at Pratt and Whitney in East Hartford in the late 70's.

Maybe 20 acres of inter-connnected buildings, all with the same 2x4 block floor.

Our blocks were tar covered. After they laid the blocks they would mop molten tar over their handywork. It prevented oil from soaking into the blocks and kept them from coming loose with all the forklift traffic. In fact, not only forklifts, but occasionally they would move some big-ass machine into or out of the plant and they would do so with a soft-tracked bulldozer front and rear.

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