[Milsurplus] Shipboard machine shop

[Ron.K3PID]

My High School had a fully equipped machine shop, a sheet metal shop, a welding shop, and a radio shop....  in the automotive shop we had a giant 8 cylinder marine diesel engine from the navy. it was still covered in cosmoline (sp) waiting for a class project to bring it to life.

Ron K3PID



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The comment about shipboard machine shops and building stuff from scratch rang a bell.  I have a manual from the 1930's NYC School system, it is their high school machine shop course. In it are pictures of the classrooms, full of lathes and milling machines.  In the course, you as a high schooler, build several things, including the complete build of a single cylinder gas motor, similar to a horizontal shaft Briggs and Stratton.  All have bills of material and some procedures that are unique to that particular build, each item teaching another step in machine use and technique, culminating in that motor build.  Quite amazing what we used to teach high schoolers back then.  Now, I'm sure, school boards would live in fear of the little babies getting hurt.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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