Just had to one up me huh?

I love how Bridgeports look almost completely identical regardless of whether they were cast in the 1950’s or the 1990’s/2000’s.

Fun fact: The machine’s serial number is hard stamped on the flat portion of the knee Y-axis ways, facing straight up. If you turn the y axis most of the way in (push the table towards the turret) the way covers should reveal it. You can then look up the serial number range here to determine when it was cast.

A friend of mine had a movie editing table made out of steel. It was from the 50s or early 60s, and was apparently made out of battleship steel.

I’ve heard that after WWII there was so much extra steel that making things out of steel was unusually cheap. As a result, a lot of those things have survived because they could afford to overbuild things using cheap steel. I wonder if it is also that machinists who worked during WWII were used to overbuilding things because they had to survive in a war environment.

My favorite part is this being on sh.itjust.works

The place looks familiar. Is this from the basement of Etcheverry in Berkeley?

This looks like a depressed atompunk surgery robot.

Oh hun. You new here?

My dad had that same fucking mill in his machine shop in the 90s. Pretty sure the computer was a little newer though.

Neat! At an old job, we had a drill sharpener that was on a battleship in the 40’s. The paint stamp on it that said “war finish” by order of the war production board" was neat AF.

Heads up, if you just simply blacked it out in paint, saved it, and posted it, the original image is still in the file, and a savvy person can just go in and delete the layer of black.