Every MACHINIST Should Visit This PLACE! | American Precision Museum Tour Pt 1

[@Gearz-365]

I'm a machine enthusiast with a love for mechanical stuff, this museum is perfect for me!

[@waltervancleave6495]

Tool maker for 47 years. Can't tell you how much this video means to Me. From hand wheeling to 4 axis cnc and every thing in between it's needless to say that I have caught my share of hot chips. Retired 2014 ,have my own shop to keep me busy and using my head. I was exposed to machining at a very young age. My Dad would take me to a very large machine shop and I would set on a stool in a corner of that shop and watch the show. I just wanted to be a machinist so bad . Eney why, think you very much for your time and effort 👌. From Ohio. Walter

[@onenewworldmonkey]

Finally! someone worthy of an Executive Director position. Whoever let him in has value, too. Incredibly well organized and done. You wouldn't want me at that place. I'd be a thorn in their side asking too many questions. This one hits home because I can really relate. I always did everything by hand and realized I need more precision and bought an Alliant mill, south bend lathe, etc. I think I used that Rockwell when I worked in the steel mill. I wanted to mention the technology he used to measure the plexiglass part is also used by archeologists to measure sites. Yep, they would kick me out.

[@oceanpinemaine]

My dad and mom (Charles and Ruth Carter) volunteered at the museum and enjoyed their time there. Thank you for a wonderful tour, now I know why it was dear to them.

[@europaeuropa3673]

Those guys were geniuses.

[@rogermarsh9806]

A very interesting tour of the Museum’s collection. I served my apprenticeship at one of the leading British machine tool builders that also made micrometers and slip gauges. If you ever called them Joblocks you got a clip round the ear. I did my turning stint on a LaBlond lathe and later I owned a Southbend lathe that came over inWW2 via the bottom of the Atlantic and in my home workshop I had a Flathers lathe of 1890’s vintage powered by a petrol engine off a cement mixer. I regularly use my Pratt and Whintney lathe, serial no.134 as well as my Brown and Sharp micrometer was well as all sorts of tools by Starrett and various makers. I have been an enthusiast of things mechanical so at 87 I’m still making things in my home machine shop.

[@michaelburns9172]

Have been a machinist for 45years and still going strong.

[@Justboredaf-u1z]

Same here, cheers !

[@walterkucharski4790]

I'm a 50 year machinist veteran I used very similar machines in some old shops. I still use a WW2 lathe . Thanks for the great tour.

[@williamstansbury2717]

I use an old Sheldon that still has the plate stating it was made under war number such and such from WWII on it it'll still hit .0005 if I do my part.

[@markthompson8656]

@@williamstansbury2717 I have a WWII Pratt & Whitney Lathe , very smooth.

[@Kevin_Kyle]

My 45th year here. Still doing bearing fits for dyno's on my 1943 Monarch. They dont make them like that any more.

[@derekcollins1972]

I have an old Sebastian treadle threading lathe.

[@martinswiney2192]

I have a LeBlond Heavy Duty lathe with a 4 digit serial number. Im not sure but I think its old. Ha ha.

[@jeremybentley820]

Wonderful tour, Without doubt this was the start of the Americas incredible ability to manufacture... Thank you.

[@mp6756]

I started my career as a tool and die maker in Massachusetts for a production manufacturing company. This was in 1983 and the presses that ran the tooling we made were still driven by leather belts on a line pulley system. Of course the line was powered by an electric motor. The leather belts, crown pulleys and shafts we made in house. As a tool maker we would make the different tooling for the production equipment. It's mind blowing to watch this video and see how long those same system were in production. I was told by the old timers we made the machines that made the machines and that wasn't hyperbole.

[@cliff567]

I thank you for mentioning the leather belts that powered the mill wheels of New England, we used the river current for power before electricity was useful. Most of the leather for those belts that took power from the river flow to the sewing machine or the stamping mill was driven by leather belts and steel wheels. The vast majority of the leather came from the American Bison. The buffalo hunters took the hides and tongues.

[@jerrylor60]

Been in the trade for nine years. Started out of high school and tech school. I saw a younger kid at a different shop machining. At that moment , I remembered why i got into the trade. It really was a proud moment because I rarely see any young kids going through our shop anymore. Unless I've been at my job too long and don't see any new faces

[@BrandonLayMusic]

This man is passionate! These inventions blow my mind. I could live 1000 years and not come up with this stuff

[@mackenzieclancy959]

I'm a machinist and I've been here a few years ago. It only takes a couple of hours to go through the museum but is totally worth it

[@Thekarlskorner]

As a retired tool room machinist and metal fabricator, this is a real treat to watch. The machinery of the mid to late 1800's were not only functional, but beautiful works that brought pleasure to the eye. Thank you for sharing this video.

[@brenthargreaves9428]

Im from New Zealand I studied in an old gold mining hub city in the sth of New Zealand. A friend became the manager of a railway and gas works museum there. We were cleaning up and thus emptying out the wooden pattern works and in the corner was a lathe the bed of which was made of wood.(jarah hard as steel and stable) That lathe was used to machine parts of the lathe that was cast and constructed in that workshop then that first metal lathe made everything else. Thus to my way of thinking that was the birth of industrialisation in that part of the world. Incredible the influence of some seemingly minor things

[@dennisstempien5973]

This place is wonderful. I started as a machinist in the early 70s and retired as a Quality engineer. Those machines i worked on were WW2 lend lease machines. Many were stamped US Navy. All manual beautiful overbuilt robust machines. I went from that to CNC machining. Retired in 2018, I feel like i have "hands on" history experience ans a deep appreciation of a place like this

[@davidkraft3690]

What wonderful display ! And the narrator was so knowledgeable. Great video .

[@CKILBY-zu7fq]

Very cool, there should be thousands of these places in America, and the world.

[@xtalvt]

I can't believe you did a video on this museum!!!!!! My wife always looks for places for us to visit. She is from VT and I moved up here from SC (I am originally from Canada, move to SC in 94) about 12 years ago. She found this place while searching the web. We have visited a few times .... I could not believe when I saw Bridgeport s/n 1 !!!!!!!!! To someone like myself, very inspiring. Just FYI ... I apprenticed at Westinghouse Generator and Turbine ... worked at several places ... ended up at Westinghouse Nuclear. My wife is disabled (paralyzed from the shoulders down in a diving accident when she was 12), I work out of the house so I can provide care and earn a living. I am in the middle of building a new shop ... 3500 sq ft with 14 ft high doors .. one man build, not bad for a 60 year old guy (you can check out some videos I have up on youtube). I have worked on lots and lots of farm equipment since moving to VT. I need a shop big enough to get out of the weather (we already have snow on the mountains behind me .. and we do hit -30 once in a while). Side note ... don't let a machinist pretend to be a carpenter. Two years and I am finally getting a roof on the place ... but in 60 ft, my walls are out less than 1/32 of an inch! Working with a tape measure is killing me. Great video, can't wait for part 2 !!!

[@xtalvt]

@Elven Justice I even bought the tee shirt!

[@markharmon4963]

And I thought finish carpenters were a pain in the a...🙂

[@darius8214]

Truely inspiring, the old America was the greatest country that existed back in the days.

[@2dividedby3equals666]

It really warms my heart to see so much of industrial history being preserved like that. Thanks for sharing!!

[@matthefter4552]

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[@MarzNet256]

I concur.

[@MrSleazey]

18:04 The Browne and Sharp protractor I have one of those B&S protractors. I struggled a bit with trying to pry the frame open enough to slide in the blade and its partial circle. But that would be destructive if you succeeded. Continued fiddling around showed me the correct way to disassemble for cleaning, and to reassemble afterwards: 1) Warp the frame slightly out of flatness (finger pressure is sufficient). There is no chance of bending the frame, or the protractor blade/circle itself, since this is springy steel. 2) Rotate the protractor itself, but when the blade is about to collide with the frame, just push it down below the plane of the frame, and continue rotating. The blade will pass under the frame, easily and smoothly. 3) Continue rotating till the entire blade portion till it is completely out of mesh with the frame. Voila! To reassemble, reverse the process: 1) Overlay the movable blade over the frame in the proper position. 2) Warp the tip of the circular section slightly (or the frame itself), and guide the tip into the frame. 3) Rotate till the blade is completely meshed into the frame.

[@jimwednt1229]

Truly amazing technology. These men started it all. Thank you for showing this wonderful history .

[@pb68slab18]

Fascinating! I'm a 63yr old toolmaker who came up using only manual machines. I actually worked in a shop in a building that still had some of the pulley shafts on the ceilings, an outbuilding where the steam engines were, the dry canal from the nearby river that fed water, and a few large coal bins. And they still had a very large planer that had been converted to electric/hydraulic. I really want to see measuring tools and cutters from this era. AFAIK, rudimentary high-carbon steels had to be used. Alloy or hi-speed steels were quite a few years away.

[@profile7530]

Thanks for this, all that's missing is the piles of chips. I started out running belt drive lathes and ended up as a precision mechanical inspector running CMM programs. I'd visit your museum, but I'm too old to travel, so seeing video like this is priceless. Keep up the good work.

[@jameshudson8542]

I have visited this museum and it was very worth the trip.

[@paulboucher3508]

I learned my trade in the Fitchburg Engineering Corp back in 1961. The shop still had all the old overhead pulley’s but was electrified. Always enjoyed my trade till I retired in 2005. Love seeing this type of video, brings back old memories.

[@blipblip88]

Fascinating early tools! I can't wait to visit your museum! My dad was a tool and die worker for Chrysler for 40 years and would have loved to see this!

[@charleslicha2770]

Very interesting! I started my career in the 70's building black powder guns by hand, and retired in 2018 inspecting aerospace parts with a CMM. Feels like I followed the history of machine tools in my 48 working years.

[@ValMartinIreland]

How was the slot for the hand that drove the revolver cylinder cut out? The hand connected to the bottom of the hammer and as the hammer was drawn back it engaged the cylinder ratchet revolving the cylinder to the next chamber. With the Colts and Remingtons, it moved the cylinder clockwise. What type of tool was used to do that?

[@iansandusky417]

This place was AMAZING! Steve is the man - incredibly knowledgeable and it was an absolute pleasure to get this tour!

[@snartzzb983]

Thank you for showing us this tour. Amazing.

[@ronjohnson9032]

When I started in the trade, the Oliver Machinery building still had the overhead shafts and pulleys. I was inside of a working water powered grist mill with belts singing all around, and that felt dangerous. Big salute to those machinists who came before.

[@MrJohnnaz]

You sure made some good machines at Oliver. I have a lot of hours running Oliver machines and have found them to be VERY durable.

[@cmahesse]

Thank you so much for this video. I had no idea this museum existed 🥺 It’s amazing! I fell in love with machining in 2021 after enrolling in trade school and have been on the job for 1 year now. My instructor was a manual machinist who worked 20+ years in industry and was passionate about the trade. 🙂

[@trespire]

Brown and Sharpe were important pioneers in setting the standards for threads, introducing metrological instruments and tecniques to American manufacturing. Later on, they had an extensive catalogue if machine tools, some of which still work to this day. I own a B&S 72" straight edge that I'm curently reconditioning, hopefully to recertify it calibration.

[@chrisrich2828]

I work in brown and sharpes old building in Rhode Island

[@trespire]

@@chrisrich2828 Oh my, that's really interesting. After acquiring the 72" straight edge, I went on a spree of investigation about the company and history of B&S. The history of B&S is the history of precision manufacturing in America and world wide. What is the building used for today ? How old is it ?

[@qman1434]

I am a 42yr Browny man. Still going and I have 2 of my own also. A 2G and a 1/2in Ultra!

[@jamesspash5561]

It's called an 8 day clock, because the drive spring needed to be wound up on the 8th day. So, it was operable for 7 days.

[@lesschilling6741]

Goes to show how this industry has grown, just an absolute perfect depiction of how it started. American innovation at its finest!

[@dafrasier1]

Free people, Freedom From Religious Control. Control by Catholics , bad for humanity.

[@charleswells9682]

Back in the early-mid 80's I found this museum. I got a tour from then executive director Edwin Battison that was quite interesting and in-depth - much like the one shown here. I was the first of several enjoyable visits. This is a really fascinating place. Thanks for making this presentation.

[@kkusuwan]

Awesome museum that could help understanding of machine origin.

[@beru58]

Interesting thing about Jo blocks and Johansson. He worked at Carl Gustafs Stads Gevärsfaktori. When they changed from license building Remington rifles to Mauser rifles he took a tour down to Germany to study their ways of checking dimensions. He got disappointed and figured out the Jo blocks. So he too started off in the rifle industry. He also made the UK and the US inch the same. Now de jure standard. Interesting that Ford would present Edison with a set of Jo blocks. Johansson presented Ford with a clock made by one Wasberg in Eskilstuna (Carl Gustafs stad). We used to have a clock of his making. But no longer.

[@ericwanderweg8525]

I need to see this place for myself, since I’m only a few hours away in Connecticut. It looks like a place I could spend all day in and never run out of interesting things to see. The oldest machine I had the opportunity to play around with was a 1930s Hendey shaper.

[@paulskopic5844]

This museum is definitely on my list for next Summer. Probably will be a 8 hour visit, what an amazing place.

[@donwright3427]

Nice wish I could cross the pond to see you museum. American machine tools the best .Brown and Sharpe single spindle autos made the world go round and still a few in use today

[@gbyoung2]

Because I was a novice machinist at age 67, I visited this place in 2011 when I was at a bike rally at Mt. Snow, VT. Unfortunately, the NE area was really slammed by Hurricane Irene when it came through the following week. The museum was a fascinating place.

[@samrodian919]

Very a very, very interesting place, I'd certainly like to visit it. Great video, can't wait for part 2

[@johnwasilewski7390]

At the end of the Revolutionary and War of 1812 the British had a ban on shipping tools the United States. This gave a lot of innovators their own solutions for tool design. After a few year the tools in the USA where more complex and powerful than the ones in England. The Industrial Revolution in the US was successful. Thank for the video.

[@Capital.ECollection]

21:17 I got pictures of old drawings from this machine all this I thought it was fake… what a beautiful Art piece

[@MrStevos]

Many other famous leaders in industrial innovation were located right around the area. I visited Museum nearly 50 years ago, it was not as full & expansive as it is now, never the less, I have fond memories of that place, & that area of the country...

[@MarzNet256]

Very, very cool. I live close to the Edison labs in West Orange, NJ. It is considered one of the first industrial labs. It includes two large machine shops, one for small and one for large items. The Edison house is also really worth a look..there is even an all electric car that he built.

[@Techreux]

Glad you mentioned Eli Whitney.. the Text I have seen credits him with receiving the contract for the First round of 10000 muskets... AND for inventing the concept of precision forms: drilling by pattern, Filing by guides, and milling of irregular forms, and that it took him nearly 2 years just to get samples made that met the contract requirements, because he spent all that period getting tooling that worked.. and the government actually worried about his ability to fulfill the contract.. Thanks for the video!

[@granitesand78]

i was just there today! i searched it on youtube just now and found yoru channel. way cool. I loved the museum, fantastic place. def would recommend to everyone. I'm not a machinist but i do love firearm and american history, its a wonderful experience seeing all the machinery. Same for the springfield armory.

[@Allen362]

Great video. I've been running automatic screw machines for 38 years, so I'm very familiar with repeatable interchangeable parts. Thanks.

[@lukeb6394]

Wow this place is like 20 minutes from my place and I had no idea it was so awesome!!I'm definitely going to have to check it out

[@chowtownfoodreviews6679]

This woild be a great video in a orientation or showing kids in jvs or schooling for tool making or machining ... Im young 32 and a tool maker and im seeing more and more the passion is gone this is a cool video and the inspiration it brings...

[@kenskinner6948]

Absolutely brilliant. Thank you for the knowledge and tour.

[@alanbrown9178]

Thanks for this video. As a long retired engineering tradesman, marine engineer, I found it fascinating. I'd love to visit and spend a couple of days working out the mechanics of some of these machine, but as I live in Scotland, I can't see it being likely, sadly. As an aside to the excellent presentation, I'd like to find out more about the exchange of information that must surely have taken place between the US and European countries. I know that Joseph Whitworth, considered the father of British standardisation, headed a group to the US to report on the New York engineering exhibition sometime around 1850. The report was duly published as "The Industry of the United States in Machinery, Manufactures and Useful and Applied Arts". Thanks again.

[@bruceinoz8002]

One fascinating "side-journey" involves defining dimensional standards. Check out the saga of the "Enfield Inch" vs. the "Pratt and Whitney Inch'. Speaking of "inches", This drive for interchangeability and the setting of "industry Standard" was what took the USA and Britain to a massive lead in precision mass production in the steam age. European manufacturers bought the British and US machines and all the metrology toys to make "products Hence, the abundance of "Imperial" threads, etc, in everything from children's toys to military weapons manufactured in Europe, pre WW1.. When Perry opened up Japan, they adopted American and British technology with great enthusiasm. Thr Grits essentially defined Japanese ship-building, hence the use of "Admiralty" threads right up into the 1980's, at least. Hence the old joke about the best thing about "Industry Standards" is the variety you can choose from. Another weird twist was the story of the BA (British Association) thread system.. It was "borrowed from Swiss "Thury" threads, as used in Swiss clock and watchmaking. "Zero" BA is essentially "Metric", M-6, coarse), having a nominal diameter of six millimetres and a pitch of one millimetre.. The Brits tweaked the thread form a bit with very precisely defined roots and crests and then derived a whole family of precision fasteners used in many "light" industries This could not have happened without the existence of machines with swap-able gearbox components. Great collection and history you have there. If I stay upright and breathing long enough to travel to those parts, I will be on your doorstep, for sure.

[@bigmotorfinger7414]

Wonderful. I came up in machine shops and the present day "machinists" could learn so much if they had a few old school lessons.

[@strangersound]

If a video makes you start pondering symbiotic relationships in evolutionary biology...it's probably a good video. Thanks for the tour! It was excellent. :)

[@garbo8962]

Spent 50 years as an electrician and enjoyed doing work in machine and tool & die shops. Even was lucky to work several times in an automatic screw shop. While attending a great VoTech school back in the 1960's was amazed how the new machine shop had a CNC machine that ran off of a punched paper tape. My industrial electricity shop teacher always had me go out and connect equipment up and even install some conduit in different shops because I was ahead of the class having worked on jobs with my electrician dad & uncle. Guess now a modern shop could build better quality modern rifles so much cheaper then the shops back over 165 years ago. Just wondering with all of the fancy what 3,4, 5 axis very fast CNC mills does anyone still make a multi spindle drill press? Have not seen one in the dozen or shops in over 40 years. Thank you for an extremely well produced vidio. They should show this vidio to new apprentices.

[@citylockapolytechnikeyllcc7936]

I had a client in 1980s that still had a mill that still ran off trays of ibm cards, sequenced. Auto tool changing, etc etc. NEW CNC.... not that much different than an old knee mill with a DRO...... add some steppers, control equipment, then redo over and over until you get it fine tuned. Not much later, another client has an EDM machine, and my first time seeing a modern mill by Mitsubishi, making itty bitty little stainless valves used in heart surgery. That is a neat contract, since the valve and tubing connected to it get disposed of as hazardous waste..... They made these for Baxter Health, who could not make them in-house without an unacceptable reject rate. My client had the know-how to produce with an error rate of less than ONE unit per 1000, and his testing process could catch that 1, so they delivered 100% within tolerance.... at about $350.00 per each, in runs of 500+

[@georgefrench1907]

Excellent presentation by an outstanding presenter.👍

[@jeffsnider3588]

When you mentioned drawing 1 to 1 scale and cutting out patterns that were glued to the material, this brought back memories since as a young Engineer I did plenty of this and when CAD with pin printers emerged, wow, the "trace the pattern" was fast tracked! 😃

[@rjiggy07]

I was waiting for you to talk about the shadow graph. The most amazing measurment tool I have ever seen in my 45+ years i the tool and die trade. so simple, so percise. We had one at the stamping plant that I work at, yep, GM. They threw it out. Along with the rockwell testers, and so many other tools... Upper management at general motors are a bunch of bean counteresses, that couldn't tell apple butter from.... you know the rest.

[@MirkoPanfilio]

Buongiorno a tutti voi, vi scrivo dall'Italia, ho visto con molto piacere i due video di questo bellissimo museo,vi confesso che sebbene molti particolari meccanici vengono lavorati su macchine CNC, non danno la stessa soddisfazione se lavorati su macchine tradizionali, premetto che mi occupo di lavorazioni meccaniche alle macchine utensili tradizionali oltre alla saldatura/carpenteria.

[@NDC1115]

Thanks for the video! I'm a machine tool repairman by trade and I'm a tool history buff. Super cool to see how things have progressed. Crazy how accurate they were back then too!

[@oldroscoe2590]

High point of my day watching this. Horse and buggy days but precision tools.

[@GreySectoid]

Can't wait for the next part.

[@Ron_EZ]

Very interesting, I'm 57, I just started Basic Machine Shop at a local Community College

[@T-rock_chr0n1c]

Wow just wow.

[@herewithdave8870]

Thanks for the great video! I believe that is a "Planer" not a "Shaper".

[@keithviolette5870]

Visited there many years ago, it was great! So cool to see so many historic machines, and the passion they have to keep it alive. They've really updated the displays!

[@h2energynow]

Wow amazing inisigths into how modern percision machine tool industry started.

[@danielmierop662]

Thank You, I love your passion for this time in history and for the people that made the foundation of modern machinery. 😊

[@sandronewman2286]

Awesome!! Soon as I saw the scenery I knew this was close to home, I’ll be visiting soon

[@chashague8479]

What always puzzled me was how one made precision machine tools before there were precision machine tools to make them with? My Dad (Master Machinist) would have loved this place

[@kentstone319]

Wow ,,,,Thanks for putting this up..

[@miketrissel5494]

I was delighted, not just getting to see things that were still around in 1970, Line shafts for example, but to find out that what I pictured as a purely English dialect/accent, is still spoken in Vermont. Hearing an added "R "sound in words like Drarings, instead of drawings, made me listen closer, to find out how many other words were the like. Kind of like being able to differentiate between British, Australian and Western Canada. Never been north of New York. Does the dialect continue in other parts of the Northeast? Do radio and TV announcers follow this, or ore they more the California type accent. I am from Ohio, so we have the chimleys, Libaries and a little bit of the warsh cloths toward the south, but it has always amazed me that we are all conjoined, but the way we talk is so different I have heard Maine fishermen, which is unique too

[@wrp3621]

I am from Massachusetts and we often don’t pronounce an R when your supposed to, like pahk youha cah, but add them where they don’t belong, especially words that end in A. Like I had no idear, or my sister Lisar.

[@miketrissel5494]

You just made my day. I can now really see how much of a challenge in must be in the North East. Does this complete 'no R' verses an 'added R have a border line? I can only imagine me getting my butt kicked, for laughing as I was caught between the 2. In the early 70s, I was working in an industrial complex as an electrician, but there was a particularly stupid man, who signed his name with an X, was not allowed to change the battery in his pallet jack, because he did so much damage. As it was, he thought the battery was dead, so he pulled this 1000 pound beast a 1/4 mile to the charger. When a new battery didn't fix it, I tore it apart to fix it. He was born tongue tied, talking much as a deaf person. For 25 minutes, he told me every thing from aardvark to zebra, all the while in this new language. When I got done, I told him he was ready to go, talking just like him, and not even knowing it. He looked me straight in the eye, he in his 60s, and me being 19, and said, Are nyu meeting funny me? At that I realized that I had picked up his impediment, and broke into tears laughing so hard. I'm so glad he was old, cuz I think he would have killed me if he caught me. It was embarrassing and funny. Thanks for making my day, and triggering a moment from 1973

[@j.dragon651]

I worked on huge overhead belt driven lathes and mills from the 1880s in one place. I learned how to splice the belts etc. A lost art. I retired and finished up as a class A machinist/CNC programmer.

[@jasondk5127]

This was a great video! I would love if you would visit The Henery Ford and Greenfield village Museum in Dearborn MI. They have a great machine shop in the village.

[@JohnCThomas24]

This is a gem. Had me grinning ear to ear seeing this kind of history.

[@iansandusky417]

Man, I was the exact same when we were down there. Just absolutely incredible stuff. Much more to come in Part 2!

[@JohnCThomas24]

@@iansandusky417 patience is difficult with this one but ready for part 2!

[@johnspencer6777]

I did laugh at your comment about how there is always a gauge block missing from a set, I've worked in machine shop engineering for 37 years and can honestly say that I don't think I've seen a complete set of slips outside of an inspection department (I'm from the UK, here we call them slip gauges or just slips). Great video, very interesting.

[@GeneralChangFromDanang]

My pin gauge set is the same way. I loaned a .127 pin to a customer for him to check a hole size. Needless to say, I never got it back.

[@markthompson8656]

your right My company has a Gauge pin set from .010" to 1.00" and there are several pins missing. But in QC office there is a complete set.

[@vsvnrg3263]

john spencer, because there are no parts missing from the set, i think it proves that edison never loaned the set nor used them himself. that is assuming that no-one replaced the missing pieces.

[@edb5154]

Been there many times both to do work and bringing relatives and friends there. It's a great place to spend some time if you happen to be in the Windsor Vt area.. Great video of a fantastic organization.

[@John-fr9up]

I had visited the museum back in the late 90's when I was living in the mid Hudson valley, N.Y. Seeing this vid they have really made a lot of improvements. Back then it was dimly lit like a shop before electric lighting and now it looks so bright. They have also put more machines on the floor with better signage and explanation. I hope more people can visit and get a better understanding of United States' unique contribution to manufacturing technology through the decades. Hope they will be able to keep improving the content over time.

[@aptpupil]

Went there years ago. Great place

[@johnkinnane547]

G’day and greetings from Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺 what a fantastic museum on machining through the years and how the machines were built for a specific purpose. I would love to visit it thank you for filming and explaining it kind regards John

[@jafinch78]

Excellent topic and presentation. Wow! As with any skill, learning the history is fundamental in learning the skill truly holistically. Looking forward to the next episode(s). Thanks for sharing. Liked, commented and subscribed.

[@thisolesignguy2733]

This is awesome! I really want to play with that indexing mill, that looks like it would be so much fun. And the barrel rifler too. can't wait for pt 2!

[@AnthonyGriz]

Thank you for sharing - the history and evolution of manufacturing is slowly disappearing with many who plied the trade over the years, so this was really refreshing to see!

[@4n2earth22]

Paradigm shift in production and precision. Excellent presentation; Thank you.

[@markhamon7462]

Do you have information on how long it would take to manufacture and assemble a rifle using this system versus hand-built at that time? Thanks for the amazing video!

[@abrahamdelgado777]

Can't wait for part two 👍

[@jockellis]

One of my Atlanta high school buds lives only a few miles from Windsor and 50 miles from my daughter in Keene. So I will be there next time we go North.

[@samsonian]

VERY cool! I may not be a machinist…but I appreciate mechanical objects, processes, etc. and am a huge tool junkie as a tradesman. Still jonesing to get a shop put together so I can start turning metal and money into shavings and objects! Cheers and thanks for the content! 🖖😎👍

[@mrahob275]

Went as a kid !! Spent summers nearby .. loved that place. It was also a great place to put in on the river.

[@guidosarducci1943]

I will always remember my 1st time on a hydraulic planer, throwing 50 caliber curls at a brick wall...

[@gunsmither]

Outstanding presentation! Thanks very much PM.

[@Heyemeyohsts]

Mind boggling

[@mikewysko2268]

Enjoyed the history museum tour. Well done!

[@johnaweiss]

23:01 WE CAN'T WAIT.

[@michaelkrieger9241]

Wonderful tour through a critical point in manufacturing history. Enhances my perspective of the history of machine tools as well. Just one thing detracts: alas, the music is strikingly too loud as well as not particularly appropriate.

[@bwma]

Truly enjoyed this. Thanks for posting it.

[@smorrow]

8:09 Key-duplicating machines basically work like this. There's nothing about them that's actually specific to keys. You could 3D-print any pattern and use the key machine to copy it to steel.