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Jim Wilkins Jim Wilkins is offline
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Default A piece of history

On Jun 16, 5:43*pm, Steve Ackman
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* Yup. *Table was about 6' x 16', post WWII, but just.
There were actually WWII and pre-WWII era machines still
in use at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in the early 80s.
Seemed out of place next to the CNCs.


I didn't see any interesting antiques in their machine shop at the
June 2000 open house. They had the biggest lathes I've ever seen,
holding Boomer propellor shafts.

jsw