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Default Rosie the riveter's lathe?

On 2018-02-20, Leon Fisk wrote:
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:24:51 -0600
Ignoramus19723 wrote:

On 2018-02-20, Ignoramus19723 wrote:
My opinion is that it is a slotter and the machine is set up for
making a gear. as there ar no chips around, it does not depict a
production situation, maybe a photo op of a nice looking female next to
a slotter.


and here it is, a Pratt and Whitney vertical slotter that looks very
similar to Rosie's machine.

https://www.surplusrecord.com/cgi-bin/adpop.pl?005901

Look at picture No. 3:

https://www.surplusrecord.com/listphotos/005901b.jpg


Yeah, that picture sure looks right. There are two different machines
in that set of pictures. About half the images are the model that look
like Rosie's and the others don't...

Yes. Even the above jpeg is not the exact machine that rosie worked
with as I found some slight differences/.