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Re: Extreme size welding
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Posted by Bud in NC on October 31, 2006 at 04:01:38 from (24.196.199.226):
In Reply to: Extreme size welding posted by 135 Fan on October 30, 2006 at 01:34:14:
I was missing in action yesterday so I'm getting here late. Glad I don't have to work on the big stuff now - I'm too old and crippled! On a slight side trip but still dealing with big stuff, about 15 years ago I was sent down to Elliott Company in Jacksonville, Fl to witness some maching on some turbine parts. That usually means you have a *bunch* of time to sit and wait to take a mic reading so like any normal construction type, I did some exploring at the place. They have a vertical lathe with a table that's 40+ feet wide but the thing they had that really impressed me was an engine lathe - the levers to change feed speed were about 12 feet in the air, the bed ways were almost 100 feet long and I remember being told that it had a 177" swing - that's 14 ft 9 in! There was an operators chair mounted to the tool post saddle. Inside one of the doors was the old old swastika and German eagle. They said the lathe had been used during WW2 to produce cannon barrels. They also did spin balancing on turbine rotors there. Trust me - a 144 ton LP rotor spinning 1800 RPM will VENTILATE a large shop!!!! Naw - I made it point not to get near that operation!
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