[TheForge] OT, but I Just have to ask...

[Andrew Vida]

Where'd they come from?  As I recall, the whole naval ordnance operation 
in VA or MD where the large 16" rifles were built have been dismantled 
along with so much of the rest of American industrial might.  Shame. 
Can you imagine what an operation the forging of one of those barrels 
must have been?  I wonder if there is archive footage available anywhere.

Mike Linn wrote:
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> There are several cannon lathes about 4 miles from me at Tannehill State 
> Park.
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> They are really cool machines.
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> At 05:30 PM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
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>> Justin Fellenz wrote:
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>>> But the cannon. Now, that's a cool idea. Anyone tried making one? A big
>>> one, I mean? My lathe bed is, oh, 9 feet long and I can spin about 14".
>>> I wonder if the bed would flx under the weight...I guess you'd have to
>>> rig up some rollers to carry it. And how would you bore something that
>>> long? Get it close with a long (flexy) boring bar and then clean it up
>>> with a button?
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>>         I think you really need a gun drill to do the job right.  
>> Drilling deep holes is not an easy thing to do, if you want the hole 
>> to be straight, that is. :)
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