cool pics of ship engines getting built

http://www.shipsnostalgia.com/guides/William_Doxford_and_Sons#The_Manufacturing_Process

some people might like this... i think pics like thie are great to look at...

wow....those pics are amazing!
its awesome to see such large machine parts, specially when youre only used to seen them so small in your car..

good link man

also, what i find really cool is that these pics are from 1957 and 1958... they had some good machines for how long ago this was... all done by man, not a machine that duplicates parts by a computor...

so very true!

That is truly amazing, especially where they're fabricating the crankshaft!

I worked with a navy surplus lathe in college the size of the cylinder boring pic.
I made rims for my dune buggy.

Thanks for sharing this with us!!!

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Originally posted by notech

That is truly amazing, especially where they're fabricating the crankshaft!

I worked with a navy surplus lathe in college the size of the cylinder boring pic.
I made rims for my dune buggy.

Thanks for sharing this with us!!!

no problem... when i saw this, i thought of you first... i knew you would like the pics...

Thats is amazing..it looks sorta dated...when were the pics taken?

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Originally posted by amapornfreak

Thats is amazing..it looks sorta dated...when were the pics taken?

they are from 1957 and 1958...

Very cool post. I remember walking in the engineering and weapons spaces on the USS Missouri and try to figure how they fabbed the parts back in the 40's. This gives me a good idea how some of it was done.

Are they piston engines? Some of the parts being used look like they might be part of the cam/shaft...
A bit surprising to see a piston rather than a turbine in the 50s isn't it?

Great pics, back when we did stuff properly. I want that wheelbarrow.

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Originally posted by hockey_boy

Are they piston engines? Some of the parts being used look like they might be part of the cam/shaft...
A bit surprising to see a piston rather than a turbine in the 50s isn't it?

Yes they are pistons, and they still use piston engines today in the supertankers.
(this sucker is multiple story's tall)