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

[Chuck Robinson]

The  16" barrels were made in the Washington Navy Yard.
I used to work in the building that housed the monster lathes.
I was told they were cut up for scrap after ww II.
Chuck
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From: "Andrew Vida" <osan at netlabs.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 11:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT, but I Just have to ask...


> 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:
> >
> > There are several cannon lathes about 4 miles from me at Tannehill State
> > Park.
> >
> > They are really cool machines.
> >
> >
> > At 05:30 PM 1/12/2005, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Justin Fellenz wrote:
> >>
> >>> 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?
> >>
> >>
> >>         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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