[AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???

[Richard Fink Sr]

Charlie when i was a lot younger we had a neighbor that built his own 
boat. That is how he mad the bows a section of metal down spout a tea 
kettle and a small gas stove. I think the spout was wrapped with 
insulation or some thing. He had a small hole at the top end for 
excess steam to leak out. Put in his wood [don't recall how long] 
then when he took it out he bent it to shape in a jig he had made. 
that was at least 60 years ago.
R Fink



At 05:40 PM 1/25/2010 -0500, you wrote:
>Larry,  all you need to do is find a pipe big enough to put your stock in.
>Wrap some insulation around it.  Put the wood inside and pipe some steam
>(boil some water in a semi-sealed container over a gas or wood fire) into
>the pipe and let it vent out the other end.
>
>Charlie
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Goss" <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
>To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>Sent: Monday, January 25, 2010 4:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???
>
>
>
>I suspect you are right, Farmer. Every fabricator has a pattern room. What's
>scary is to tour the attics, galleries, and back rooms of a cathedral, and
>see the same things there -- hundreds of years later.
>
>I'd love to have that steam "oven" so I could make the hoops for my windmill
>without having to laminate them.
>
>I thought of Karges Furniture when I saw this factory. Karges still has the
>original pattern-follower lathe for making routed table legs. It makes 36 at
>once, if I remember correctly. The room has no sawdust removal system. Can
>you imagine the sawdust generated when the lathe was loaded and turning 36
>sculpted legs all at once?
>
>BTW, there is a comment on the site about the wire-wound armature in the
>generator. My guess is that it was done by machine, not by hand. Armature
>winding for motors and generators is a mind-numbing experience that is
>exceptionally easy to automate. My guess is that the generator (probably
>called a dynamo at the time) was made at the Fitchburg works of GE. One of
>the shots of the instruments very clearly shows the GE logo. That operation
>was typically done by "girls" (AKA female employees).
>
>Larry
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Indiana Robinson <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
>Date: Monday, January 25, 2010 13:53
>Subject: Re: [AT] Spam> RE: Garden tractor???
>To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
>
> > On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Larry Goss
> > <rlgoss at insightbb.com> wrote:
> > > Slicks = drag racer.
> > >
> > > Here's something to make you all salivate.
> > >
> > > http://steampunkworkshop.com/skinner-unaflow-steam-engine-
> > needs-new-home
> > >
> > > Larry
> > >
> > ==================================
> >
> >
> >
> > Neat!!
> > I believe that the second picture is not pieces of chairs that were
> > being assembled hanging from the walls as it says. I believe those
> > were their working patterns... I have such things hanging in my
> > woodshop now. About any woodshop that ever does production has a
> > pattern rack or room.
> > Sure a lot of history in that run of pictures. Kind of sad.
> > Just before I got married almost 47 years ago I worked in a sometimes
> > old fashioned factory where we did a lot of precision hand work and
> > used a lot of stiff fiber board patterns etc. This brings back a lot
> > of memories, a few rather bad ones but most good. Other that the
> > prerequisite small handful of jerks, most of us got along quite well
> > and since many of the departments were fairly quiet hand work we were
> > able to visit as we worked most of the time. Generally
> > pleasantry was
> > encouraged and few of the managers were of the hotshot, "big me" type.
> > My first job there was based just outside of the office door
> > inside of
> > the plant and I was low man on the pole. In that job I took orders
> > from everybody but the janitor... But, if the president of the company
> > or any number of others in management came to that plants office they
> > would all usually stop and chat with me. It was a low man job
> > but I
> > was more independent than most others in the company. I
> > set most of
> > my own schedule and my work took me all over 3 factories. As
> > long as
> > my jobs got done no one ever questioned where I was and what I was
> > doing there.
> > While I was working at that plant things got really slow for
> > almost a
> > year (mid 1960's). The assistant plant manager would bring out a
> > piddly little job or two and say "better make this last all day boys,
> > it"s all I have for you"...
> > At one point we ran clear out of work and they put a lot of the guys
> > to cleaning up stuff, doing little repair stuff on the building,
> > anything to avoid laying anyone off. They put me at a bench in a break
> > area and brought me every fan in the place (they allowed people to
> > bring in their own fans for hot weather) (you could also have radios
> > of your own) and I spent several weeks tearing down, cleaning and
> > oiling fans. Some belonged to the company and some belonged to
> > employees. I also cleaned and greased a lot of machinery that I had
> > never used. I cleaned up parts of that huge old 3 story building that
> > had not been used in 50 years except for storage. Still I had a job
> > every day and a paycheck every week. If they had laid me off for
> > a few
> > months I could have lost everything. I moved on to a white shirt and
> > tie, very good paying, data processing center job in a computer
> > service bureau after about 5 years but I still have never forgotten
> > how those folks at that factory took care of me when the chips were
> > down. They didn't have to do it... They never laid off a soul. If
> > someone left they did not replace them at that time but nobody was
> > laid off. They were also in business during the great depression and
> > they didn't lay off a single employee then either.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Have you hugged your horses today?
> >
> > Francis Robinson
> > aka "farmer"
> > Central Indiana USA
> > robinson46176 at gmail.com
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