Old Welding-related Pictures

[hickorybeef]

I love History... Cool pictures!!

Originally Posted by jtrapper

Here are some pictures of my father. He passed away 2 years ago. He was a welder in WW II in the navy, and continued his craft when he got home. He retired as a union pipefitter. Sure wish I could work with him today.

[oxygen454]

My favorites...

Classic, New York City building Rockefeller Center



Not sure where this one came from...

[junk collector]

I bought a couple of bound volumes of this from a library, wish I would have bought more. This is one of the better cover pictures.

These are from the war years and have some interesting ads, some from a bronze welding rod supplier about repairing very large cast iron machines using brazing. I will post some when I get some time. It may be a while though.

[Mick120]

Originally Posted by busyman

My addition to the thread. New with this link stuff. hope it works.
http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides...turing_Process

Damn....I love all this stuff....thanks guys.

[Mick120]

Originally Posted by Bruce

What a GREAT Pic!
That anvil looks like it has been working hard for quite a while........wish I could find one like it? I have missed a few, broke down and bought a new, not the same, no patina, doesn't sing like she should!

Here's a couple of pics of my old 1901 Hay Budden....sings beautifully.
Wouldn't part with her for love or money.

[Bruce]

That's a sweet one for sure.....I'll keep looking, watching the auctions too!

[Sandy]

I'm posting a link on this one because you can click on this and get a very large pic or simply pan around. Looks like heliarc??

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/...rk-bench-in-an

[tanglediver]

Too many sparks, I would guess oxy-fuel. (Graffiti on the background wall??)

[denrep]

Originally Posted by Sandy

I'm posting a link on this one because you can click on this and get a very large pic or simply pan around. Looks like heliarc?? . . .

Here 'tis:




Tell Victor girl at #183 to level the torch.
"We're not beveling."

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[Sandy]

Originally Posted by denrep

Here 'tis:

Tell Victor girl at #183 to level the torch.
"We're not beveling."

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Hey thanks, that makes it clearer. I shoulda spent mor time lookin 1st time.

[Oldiron2]

Originally Posted by denrep

Here 'tis:




Tell Victor girl at #183 to level the torch.
"We're not beveling."

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Yes, I looked at the link yesterday and wondered if anyone else had also noticed the figure on the far wall; looks like war-time psychological propaganda (graffiti).

[turbocad6]

toyota robot welding on the assy line, don't know the year but def old ...

[Mick120]

Prior to starting my mechanics apprenticeship back in '67, a mate of my father gave me a set of three encyclopedia titled, Engineering Workshop Practice, this was the third edition, printed in England in 1947.
I've kept them ever since and, thought I'd scan a couple of pics to add to the collection.
I actually used a similar profile cutter in NZ back in '74 when, I was employed making forklift chassis, among other things.
Just makes my Samson CNC seem not so special....kinda.

[bert the welder]

"The two men shown can braze 715 straps daily" .......
Oh god....... and not even an ipod to be found!!!!

[Tractapac]

Originally Posted by bert the welder

"The two men shown can braze 715 straps daily" .......
Oh god....... and not even an ipod to be found!!!!

Don't worry, they'll have gone deaf without the help of ipods!

And no hearing or eye protection either and no protective clothing. No warning signs and fluoro clothing either.

How on earth did they survive?

Interesting that they both hold the torches in their left hands, unless the negatives got reversed at some stage.

[bert the welder]

Originally Posted by Tractapac

How on earth did they survive?

Common sense was more common back then. That, and they would have been watching the old Merry Melodies cartoons. Seems to have work for me..........

[Mick120]

There's another thread on here (600 tons-win loose or draw) that got me thinking about big hydraulic presses.
A company I know of in Holland installed an 8000 ton press which, I thought was pretty big so, I did some digging and came up with these.
A 50,000 ton press that was built during the 1950's and, I believe is still in use in the States.

More pics follow...

[Mick120]

More pics

[jtrapper]

That 50K is awesome. Like to see what it was used on.

[Alphonse]

Here's all they had to weld{out of position} the ships together for WWII
E6010 & E7010 DC reverse polarity stick & AND SKILL!

[Mick120]

Originally Posted by jtrapper

That 50K is awesome. Like to see what it was used on.

It was last used to press forgings for The F35 Joint Strike Fighter Jet however, it seems the press is broken, at least it was back in 2009.
Developed a crack that was going to take $68million to repair.....don't know if Alcoa ever did the repair, maybe someone can shed light on the matter.

[Marck]

This is history! Now we got new technology, but it's nice to see were we started our work and which tools we used in the past. Great!

[RobertDoubrava]

This is an awesome thread! The '42 SA200 I recently bought has a brass US Navy Property plate with the machine's ID number and a Ship number on it, really cool piece of history. Two stuck exhaust valves are being soaked and worked free, it's almost ready to fire off for the first time in who knows when.

[RobertDoubrava]

Pictures of the 1942 SA200; Two from the ebay listing and one I took of the ID tag:

[slow6i]

The ingenuity of man has always amazed me. And this thread is an accurate description of why.

These people worked in conditions considered appalling by todays standards, yet, they built the titanic, the empire state building, the 50k ton press... the rocket ship / lander to the moon.

I wish i had lived 100 years earlier, and 100 years later than i currently to do to see where we were, where were at, and where were headed.