[TheForge] Line Shaft Driven Factories

Sat May 10 02:02:24 2003

the shop i work in a lot of the machines are driven by a line shaft like a 
shaper, radal arm drills, lathes etc.
i'm in oz(australia).

>From: RIES NIEMI <[email protected]>
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>Subject: [TheForge] Line Shaft Driven Factories
>Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:26:20 -0700
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>Snohomish Ironworks is an intact line shaft driven shop- its not exactly a
>factory- the grandson, who runs it now, is more of a fabricator, and down
>the middle bay he has a large hydraulic ironworker and a couple of mig
>machines, which is mostly what he uses. On either side there are line
>shafts, and nothing has been touched or even cleaned up since at least the
>40's, so there are operating lathes, drills, mills and a big planer off the
>line shaft.
>
>But even in the Northwest, its not very unique- I recently sold a line 
>shaft
>lathe, and in the process ended up finding out about 3 or 4 other line 
>shaft
>shops around here. Most of them are not job shops, they are specific
>craftsmen who use them for their work, but my guess would be that there are
>at least 100 shops as complete as Snohomish Ironworks around the country.
>
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