Shop Porn

[steamer]

She looks Damn Sassy Mike!.....

Dave

 

[idahoan]

I have pictures of engines as well as a bunch of other stuff! This is the back wall of my shop.

Dave

 

[el gringo]

copy of the old Pratt & Whitney engine logo 'DEPENDABLE ENGINES'

my favorite is the Life Magazine cover picture of July 19 1943........

 

[lazylathe]

copy of the old Pratt & Whitney engine logo 'DEPENDABLE ENGINES'

my favorite is the Life Magazine cover picture of July 19 1943........

Shirley Slade on the wing!!!
Nice one!!

Andrew

 

[nfk]

Since yesterday, i`ve replaced my old Pirelli calendar with the picture below
My wife argued about that calendar for a while...and the replacement is even more gratifying.

Cheers!

 

[el gringo]

Andrew;
Do you have or can you point me towards more info abt Miss Slade?
Thank you
Ray M

 

[lazylathe]

Kind of hard to find any info on her.

She was a WASP trainee in World War 11
W- Womens
A - Airforce
S - Service
P - Pilot

Earned her wings and they had to pass the same tests that the male pilots wrote.
They also had to learn to fly every aircraft the army and navy had!

http://www.sladegenealogy.net/misc/wasp.htm

http://www.womenofwwii.com/armywasps.html

http://www.northofseveycorners.com/honors/hon-05.htm

http://wwii-women-pilots.org/classlists/clslist.html#SSlade

This one seems to have the most info.
http://twudigital.cdmhost.com/cdm4/index_p214coll2.php?CISOROOT=/p214coll2

Just type in SLADE and go!

Andrew

 

[el gringo]

thanks;
I pinned my air force crew member badge to the bottem of her picture, she at least has something that looks like wings.
by the way the caption at the bottom of the Life cover is 'air force pilot', USAF didn't exist in 1943 but the Army Air Corps certainly had a lot of aircraft to learn to fly.
Thanks again,Andrew
Ray M

 

[Mosey]

I have pictures of engines as well as a bunch of other stuff! This is the back wall of my shop.

Dave

This is clearly the best we've seen so far! Keep the pictures coming, guys.

 

[el gringo]

Dave,
I would be so uncomfortable in that chipless shop all I would do is stare at the pictures. ;D

Paranoid
Raay M

 

[idahoan]

My shop isn't always that clean; but I do try to clean up at the end of each day in the shop. I work full time so sometimes I only make chips on the weekends; and as you can see the shop is my favorite place to surf! It is an attached garage and the mill and lathe are very close to the kitchen door so I need to keep the chips under control. A very understanding wife also helps.

I don't like dirty machines so I usually stop in time to clean up; I have a pretty good system so it doesn’t take long.

Here is another shot of the Southwest corner.

Dave

 

[Mosey]

Did I spy an vintage Delta drill press? Nice.
This is like the suspicion we had about Rudy Kouhoupt's shop....(2 shops)...1 for making things, and 1, chipless, for pictures of his projects.
Remember, the guy with the most toys wins. You're ahead of a lot of us.

 

[stevehuckss396]

the guy with the most toys wins.

He who dies with the best toy's wins.

 

[idahoan]

You are correct, that is a nice vintage Delta Drill Press; I restored it some years ago.
Where I grew up there was an old guy across the street that had a small engine repair shop, he and his wife were family friends. When he called it quits and retired (probably 75 or 80 years old) he sold the entire shop to a pilot who was going to use it as a hobby shop.

Twenty years or more go by and the place goes untouched; then there is an estate sale; man talk about a walk back in time. My brother and I both were able to purchase items that reminded us of our childhood and the good times we had with our neighbors. The Delta drill press was one of those items.

I matched the dark gray that was originally on the drill press; I don’t think Delta painted them this color but for the most part that is what was on it so that is what I put back on it.

It has a couple of neat features; a 3 handle spider quill feed and a center pulley which were both options; and a really cool hand made lamp reflector made from an old tin can by the former owner.

Needless to say I’m happy to own it.

Dave

 

[el gringo]

Dave;
My comments were not meant to be negative.
More than likely of a jealous nature.

I'll bet there aren't many shops, commercial or hobby that nicely kept. I will also bet the commercial shops kept up as such are enjoying a nicer profit margin.
Ray M

 

[el gringo]

HE WHO DIES LAST WITH THE MOST TOYS WINS
Ray M

 

[pete]

Not framed or hung up yet, A poster bought from Fine Woodworking magazine of the H.O. Studley Tool Chest. Anybody that can shoehorn roughly 300 tools into the size of Studleys tool box should be redesigning my shop. I can't say for sure I'll ever have enough wall space to hang it up. Tap, drill charts take priority. Also have a few selected Gary Larson Far Side cartoons hung up to remind me not to get all that serious about life in general. Guess mine don't really fit into the shop porn category. I've seen a few line drawings of some stationary steam engines I'd like to have blown up, framed and use to hide some of the wall in the living room tho. SWMBO has other thoughts.

Pete

 

[Mosey]

David Sobel had a picture in his shop that showed a man (I believe himself) standing in or on a part being machined on a vertical mill. The part was maybe 12' in diameter, and the machine was possibly 40 feet high. I'm guessing that it was an engine part for a battleship or some other WW11 ship. This is all from distant memory, and David never gave me the full story, but I remember and would love to have the picture in my shop. David's personal museum certainly qualified him for one of the finalists in the game of who had the most and best toys when checking out. I remember the wooden-cabinet lathes from the 19th century, aluminum Wade lathe, numerous Schaublins, etc. ad naseum.
What became of his stuff?

 

[steamer]

Ya baby!

Dave

 

[Tin Falcon]

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