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

[Andrew Vida]

I fyou want to talk to an expert on this, I can put you in touch with my 
friend Mike Rock.  Or better yet, go to http://rockcreekbarrels.com and 
you will find his contact information there.  He builds barrels, 
suppressors, and ultra long distance sniper weapons for DoD.  He knows 
as much about such things as anyone on the planet, I would imagine.

Justin Fellenz wrote:
> Thing about that stuff is that if you can find it it's usually cheap,
> just scrap price or less because of the hassle of moving it. A friend
> of mine bought a huge lathe, big enough to swing a 2' face plate or so,
> in great shape for $750 because he could move it and nobody else could.
> And a machinery dealer I know told me he had 4 Nazel power hammers and
> scrapped them all because he couldn't sell them. Oh, the agony. I
> *know* there are four people out there who would be more than happy to
> own a 17' tall, 8-ton personal earthquake. But you gotta find them.
> 
> Maybe there should be a society for the protection of huge old tools,
> like the spca.
> 
> Seriously, has anyone tried to make a cannon? Any gunsmiths out there?
> I'm told it can be done but I'm not sure of the equipment you'd
> need...deep holes *are* difficult to drill true.
> 
> Justin
> 
> 
> 
> --- Andrew Vida <osan at netlabs.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>
>>Chuck Robinson wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>	Really?  For some reason I thougth they'd survived longer than that.
>>
>>Must have been a hell of a contraption in any event.  Largest lathe I
>>
>>ever saw face to face had 27' dia. chuck and topped out at something 
>>like 4 or 6 rpm.  More shipyard equipment.
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