My favorites...
Classic, New York City building Rockefeller Center
Not sure where this one came from...
My favorites...
Classic, New York City building Rockefeller Center
Not sure where this one came from...
Last edited by oxygen454; 01-23-2011 at 02:15 PM.
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.
That's a sweet one for sure.....I'll keep looking, watching the auctions too!
Bruce
The Welding Chef
Lincoln Weld-Pack 3200
NORWELD Stick
Stanford Hill Farm
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
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." -Theodore Roosevelt
Too many sparks, I would guess oxy-fuel. (Graffiti on the background wall??)
City of L.A. Structural; Manual & Semi-Automatic;"Surely there is a mine for silver, and a place where gold is refined. Iron is taken from the earth, and copper is smelted from ore."
Job 28:1,2
Lincoln, Miller, Victor & ISV Bible
Danny
"The things that will destroy America are prosperity at any price, peace at any price, safety first instead of duty first, the love of soft living and the get rich quick theory of life." -Theodore Roosevelt
toyota robot welding on the assy line, don't know the year but def old ...
miller 330a bp TIG
miller dynasty 200DX TIG
millermatic 185 MIG
thermal dynamics cutmaster 101 plasma cutter
snap-on YA5550 plasma cutter
hypertherm powermax 30 plasma cutter
baileigh CS225 cold saw
etc....
"The two men shown can braze 715 straps daily" .......
Oh god....... and not even an ipod to be found!!!!
200amp Air Liquide MIG, Hypertherm Plasma, Harris torches, Optrel helmet, Makita angle grinders, Pre-China Delta chop saw and belt sander, Miller leathers, shop made jigs etc, North- welders backpack.
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.
"One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for." (Charles Kettering)
Mitch 180 (NZ)
Lincoln SAM-400-220 + ?-400 Fordson Major + 2 x Tractapac Humber 80 + Procut 40 Plasma
Miller Spectrum 375
200amp Air Liquide MIG, Hypertherm Plasma, Harris torches, Optrel helmet, Makita angle grinders, Pre-China Delta chop saw and belt sander, Miller leathers, shop made jigs etc, North- welders backpack.
That 50K is awesome. Like to see what it was used on.
Good judgement comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgement.
Here's all they had to weld{out of position} the ships together for WWII
E6010 & E7010 DC reverse polarity stick & AND SKILL!
Century AC/DC 250 Amp & Midstates 300 Amp Industrial AC stick welders, Century Flux core 80 amp. wire feed welder Harris Oxy-Acet. cutting & welding outfit:
SEE MY INFORMATIVE VIDEOS AT http://www.youtube.com/user/alpho52
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!
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.
RD
1984 Chevrolet C30 welding truck
1966 Lincoln SA200 Continental F162
1942 Lincoln SA200 Hercules IXB-5
1991 Lincoln LN25
Pictures of the 1942 SA200; Two from the ebay listing and one I took of the ID tag:
RD
1984 Chevrolet C30 welding truck
1966 Lincoln SA200 Continental F162
1942 Lincoln SA200 Hercules IXB-5
1991 Lincoln LN25
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.
Here are some pics........The first three are a ship building company, the fourth is a pic of the Barris brothers, chopping a roof in the 50's....does anybody know what that honeycomb thing is on the cylinder??
Lincoln pro mig 180
Lincoln Square Wave Tig 300/wp 20/home built water cooler
Victor, Purox, Harris, O/A welding/cutting setups
Vintage Craftsman drill press
Vintage Craftsman/Atlas 12"x 36'' lathe
7''x 12'' w/c band saw
Everlast 140 st
Thats one of the biggest crank shafts i've ever seen! The genious of the old time craftsmen always amaze me they were Great!
wbolden
Miller Shopmaster 300
Miller Syncrowave 250
Miller Thunderbole 250/150 AC-DC
Miller Weldpack 140 w/autoset
Miller S-22 Wirefeeder
Lincoln 255 xt Mig welder
Lincoln 216 Mig welder
Victor,Smith and Harris OA
7X 12 JET BANDSAW
The cylinder is an acetylene generator, where they dropped Calcium Carbide onto water and the ensuing reaction produced acetylene. I suspect it will be to do with regulating pressure as they can be dangerous.
Rexarc make one and here's a link:
http://www.rexarc.com/products.aspx?c=66
I have an old one tucked away in the shed and I asked at BOC about getting some calcium carbide and I ran into all the OSHA type frighten you off speak. Apparently the residue is a contaminant and you have to dispose of it carefully. BOC seem to control it, I suspect to protect their empire here.
Cavers, potholers speleologists, or I think you call them spelunkers in the US, still use carbide lamps and they work on the same principle although I gather there are no lamps made now.
"One of the things we have to be thankful for is that we don't get as much government as we pay for." (Charles Kettering)
Mitch 180 (NZ)
Lincoln SAM-400-220 + ?-400 Fordson Major + 2 x Tractapac Humber 80 + Procut 40 Plasma
Miller Spectrum 375
"Carbide" used to be furnished to small mines in the Nevada desert in 50# or 100# cans. If the carbide isn't perfectly (lab grade) pure, it can produce trace amounts of phosgene when reacted, but this is destroyed in the flame.
Besides the acetylene, the end product is hydrated lime, Ca(OH)2, which isn't a hazardous material. Theoretically, it could be dried, mixed with more pure carbon and reacted again to make new carbide...but that would more trouble than just buying new carbide, considering the furnace needed for the process to work efficiently.
I'm not disputing what the bureaucrats may classify it as though; not all they do is rational or supported by facts but rather is done just because they need to justify their high salaries, IMHO.
I've seen some old restored cars that still use acetylene headlights, although usually with bottled gas rather than original lamps which generated their own gas.
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Last edited by Oldiron2; 10-23-2011 at 10:16 PM.
Carbide caving lamps are still available, as is carbide from China.
Carbide is a very good way to store energy and acetylene generators were very common for lighting and of course industrial use. Waste of time in modern countries where the acetylene vendors run their large generators and package acetylene for the customer.
Rexarc sells a fair number overseas because if there is no bottled gas vendor, it's DIY or "do without".