The PAST & FUTURE of the MACHINE TOOL industry is ALL here! | American Precision Museum Tour Pt. 2
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- čas přidán 4. 08. 2024
- Join us in this second part of our tour of the American Precision Museum. We'll get to see some of the most fascinating machine tools, including the Bridgeport Milling Machine Serial #1, and have an exclusive look at what's behind the scenes at the museum.
ICYMI, watch the first part or the tour here: • Every MACHINIST Should...
Located in Windsor, Vermont, the American Precision Museum showcases a world-class collection of historic machines. The location of this fascinating museum was not selected randomly. Before turning into the American Precision Museum, the building used to be the Robbins & Lawrence Armory, a National Historic Landmark. Here, in 1846, Samuel Robbins, Nicanor Kendall, and Richard Lawrence took the bold step of bidding on a government contract for 10,000 rifles. Having won the contract, they then constructed a four-story brick building beside Mill Brook. They brought in workers and mechanics, invented new machines, adapted old ones, and perfected techniques for producing interchangeable parts. Within a few years, they were exporting not only rifles but also their new metal-cutting machines across North America, to England and around the world. The technology for making guns was quickly adapted to making consumer products as well as parts for many other machines.
Nowadays, the museum’s holdings include an unparalleled collection of industrial machinery spanning the first one hundred years of precision manufacturing, along with fine examples of early machined products including rifles, sewing machines, and typewriters. Photographs and archival records provide additional resources for interpreting this critical phase of the Industrial Revolution.
If you are a machinist, a metalworker, or simply passionate about manufacturing and its history, this is a MUST-VISIT place! The museum is open Monday through Friday during the winter and seven days a week during the summer.
Learn more about the museum and the exhibition at americanprecision.org/
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Thank you very much! My Grandfather was good friends with Mr. Wahlstrom and Mr. Bannow (Bridgeport Machines). Mr. Bannow passed when I was one, so I don't remember him, however, I do remember meeting Mr. Wahlstrom on several occasions when I was little. My Grandfather had a machine shop in Easton during the 1940's. I always regret not saving one of the early Bridgeport Milling Machines that he used.
My confidence is Humanity has been restored. Thank God for places like this 🙏 Inspiring a new generation.
I've been a machinist, production engineer, CNC programmer for nearly five decades, and still love machining prototypes, and figuring out the best way to machine / fabricate .
This museum was a lucky find while visiting "precision valley" a few years ago, and recently, I want back to see what they have been up to.
Definitely a must see if ever you are ever in the area.
The people there are very nice and committed to saving our industrial history.
Bravo
Thanks again for Steve and the team at the American Precision Museum for taking the time to show off this incredible collection of history!
If you’re ever in or around Vermont, MAKE SURE you check it out - I personally promise you it’s worth it!
I have a Barnes 4 1/2 lathe from 1888-1905 ish.. It’s in phenomenal shape for the age. Just something about the sound and feel of antique equipment.
I’ve been wanting to take the Starrett Tools tour. Hopefully I can make it up there next year.
The evolution of machines is 1 that can be written about but display physical machines create understanding. The size of the building shows how much machines influenced our lives. Must be great guiding people through & adding new pieces of information. I had a rag in my back pocket repairing them.
Thank you for this. I now want my picture with Bridgeport #1. I was lucky to get to spend 2 years playing in the back yard and basement of the man that built that first Bridgeport. I definitely want to get up there to see that and all the other machines you have there.
So inspiring to see the past mingle with the present. Thank you.
An amazing museum. I think it's great that all that industrial heritage is preserved and cared for. A wonderful portrayal of historic innovation and yes, genius. Thanks very much. Colin ( UK ).
Brings back memories fondly.
The passion he has for the machines really came through. Enjoyed it.
" .... Inspire and engage ...." WOW ,,,, this is how I grew up. I came from a steel town. I remember the plant tours I went on as a kid. My parents took me to the Henry Ford Museum a few times. By high school I was taking double credits in machine shop and drafting ... plus taking welding at night school. I remember being thrilled to take a trip to a local college and program a paper tape milling machine to cut a square.
America needs to get back to skills and manufacturing ... replace the game controls in the kids hands with tools.
Heck, I am 60 ... worked with machines most of my life ... I still am inspired when I visit this museum!
Awesome video!
Love this Channel and Thank Y'all for keeping history alive for me and All the young men I work with!
I am fascinated by the scale models. That must have been a lifetime of work.
I would love to see an entire video of those models! What a labor of love and a lifetime achievement.
@@BlackheartCharlie Maybe you're interested in this too: a gentleman named Lou Chenot made a fully functioning scale model of a Duesenberg, including a working straight 8 engine. This is the link: czcams.com/video/6-NCnNs9UAM/video.html
Absolutely fascinating place, I may have to check and see when the 'Tool Box Pop-Up Show' is being displayed and take a drive up from CT. Thank you !
I went through this museum in 2002, it has changed a lot since then. The miniature shop floors were what I remembered most from 20 years ago.
Nice tour. He obviously is an example of someone that loves what he does.
We have 2 in the shop I work in, serial number 182865 (1977) and 199817 (1979). The only parts we have added to them is a DRO and a x-axis feed. I know in the last 19 years I've been working here, the only parts we've replaced is a roll pin for the quill feed on one and a drive belt on the other. Great machines
We had a few Bridgeport's too ... back when Bridgeport use to put the new casting outside for a year , or so , to relax the casting . When machined it would be solid for ever .... another shop I was in bought new Bridgeport's ... the new owners stop that year thing and we always had problems being accurate and consistent ..... just a fancy drill press .... My boss could not sell them , nobody wanted them .... what I remember .
I remember when DRO's was getting popular .... The more experience machinist got them first , they told me " I do not need them , I can read a dial " .... So much has changed since 1973 when graduated .
Oh man that's my type of place! Hope I get to that corner of the country someday.
So interesting...... several of my friends are machinists and I love to help with design and procedure....unlimited interest...Thanks for the tour. Steve,,, Some of my family owned and operated a lathe factory I believe In Milan Italy..
Thanks Steve, I worked in manufacturing and repair for many years the most interesting part was the use of additive process as a cladding repair. As you say about precision additive took the human error away from the deposition portion so that procedures could be optimized. An example is the repair of commercial aviation turbine blades.
Got to visit this place!
A wealth of knowledge and history. Something that this reminded me of is seeing a video of one of the first factory CNC converted bridgeports and it used Dot paper for the co-ordinates as it couldn't store anything.
Also to think that there are machines out there that will outlive generations of people, and robot arms are awesome i once worked around to many geeks and ended up with one that got my breakfast sorted in the morning (was prototyping exo-suits at the time) until it meet a timely end interacting with the toaster without the toast..my apartment complex was not happy with me.
This is amazing , I hope some day me & my son can come & visit , Thankyou for posting .
Thank you!
insanely cool!
I’m old and like my old machines because that is what I learned on
Brilliant! Steve thank you.
Wow such an awesome place hope one day I will be able to see it in person thanks for sharing and thank you for preserving all the history
We still use the same Accurite Mill Power control at 5:35 in our shop almost daily. We have 5 axis VMC's and it still has a very useful place among those. Not to mention a drill press and two Hardinge toolroom lathes from the early 60's.
Very cool video and this place is now on my bucket list!
Thank you for the tour
Awesome!,❤️👍
That was absolutely amazing. Thank you for taking the time to shoot, edit and share the video. Cheers Aaron
added to my list of places to visit
Im 60 plus years old. I still have a West German built toy steam engine dad bought for me when I was in grade school. In my JR High years, I would build with the erector set and run the models with the steam engine.
very good video
I want to come visit so bad!
so cool !
Well done, Thanks......
for the (boxes of) documents collection, a batch feed fast scanner similar to epson FF-680W would blast through the archiving process in case of (fire, etc.).
Also what if a 3D scanner was donated, not only to visually document each machine, but the general entire layout of the main viewing floor.
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The cameraman did a great job, but on part one a rolling tripoded cam would be great, a long close up of the machine (in operation even better) and I was hoping he'd zoom in on the milling machine as the belts were being hand driven by Mr. Deleseo, to give the new/young viewer an exact detailed impression of the end result.
That is so amazing, like Toy Playland for adults.
This museum has expanded substantially since I last visited. since it is only about 1.5 hrs. away I may visit this weekend.
I like how the Gentleman touched the one machine upstairs, as to behold something very special.
Good video about precision machine&tools,from evolution to modern . thanks
Thank you, I hope to get there soon.
nice
What a great place. I will have to make a plan to visit.
I have a barber colman gear hobber from around 1920. It still works great.
Great video and tour, I saw a lot of equipment I've worked on over the years.........I'm now retired.
What's in a machinist's tool box? I can guarantee that if the guy has been a machinist for any length of time, you'll find some custom made tools that will even stump other machinists as to their purpose. Just about everyone has worked on a job where he's said to himself, "if only I had a tool to do such and such, it would make my life so much easier" and he went off and made one.
We often joked that machinists are basically lazy and always looking for ways to do things easier.
*Those "one off" tools you speak of could so easily be discarded by someone going through the original owner's possessions, that happens all too often!*
18:31 I once saw a drill mll size version of a machine like this at a machinery dealers warehouse. It had everything this machine had but it also had on the tail stock end of the bed, a bench grinder and if I recall correctly, a hack saw. I'd never seen anything like it and was very impressed.
Would have loved to have learned this in high school,etc
Thank you.
Another addition to the modern machining practices is a CNC QC robot
I would love to visit in person, but that's not going to happen. It would be nice if the camera could dally a little longer over some machines, like the 1825 granite lathe, and the miniatures, that's worth a video of its own. otherwise many thanks. A great concept to pass on to youngsters.
I was thinking I hope there's a good fire suppression system in that museum but I guess the building is somewhat fire resistant because of its construction
I’d love to see the toolbox exhibit. Vermont is a long way from Tennessee unfortunately. I did not see anything about this exhibit on their website.
anything on Moore Special Tool jig bores, Bullard Machine, both from Bridgeport,
If they'd like a brown and sharpe automatic the shop I work at might be willing to donate one.
Is that an M head Bridgeport?
“And the newest addition to the museum, the CZcams machinist.” If we don’t hear from you well know what happened. Lol
I went to the model engineering show at the museum in the 90s and there were lots of private and commercial exhibitors. Then this past weekend I drove down from Canada for the annual show and there was practically nobody. There was one table with some models on it. Is the hobby really dying? Or was it just not aggressively promoted? Have people forgotten to come because it was cancelled these last few years because of covid? Most unfortunate.
I don't think the art is dying. Covid and promotions are most probably the reason.
@@davidpetersonharvey it’s quite possible that people just forgot about this event
@@sblack48 yes, that's possible.
COVID has screwed up a ton of annual events. I host RC modeling competitions and things are just not back to where they were. Hopefully participation turns around because for some people these events (not just mine but in other hobbies as well) are looked forward to all year.
I hope that all of the paper documents are being scanned and saved digitally. It would be a shame to have something happen to them.
19:55 The hard drive! Any idea how many bytes (or characters) of storage it had? Access speed, etc.?
It's actually a drum memory. It has multiple tracks on a spinning drum and one head for each track. Access times can be tens of milliseconds to hundreds. Storage capacity is from a few kilobytes to just shy of a megabyte for a large one. There were many different models of computers made from the 1940s-1960s which used drum memory as primary storage or as a storage buffer for data access.
Hi practical mechanist. Can you give us name of some books on precision metal hand crafting ? Having details of practices used by likes of maudslay.
19:22 - 'One born every minute'...
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I cut my teeth on a M Head Bridgeport. It wasn't # 2 built in 1938, but it was a 1940.
I know a guy that learned machining. Vague I know.
But he went with being an Electrician.
Says it pays better.
Gotta tell you sir (Journeyman Toolmaker A1). To draw younger minds to manufacturing you first must sell them the promise of NOT SELLING YOUR JOB OFF SHORE !!!!
Damn, politicians always use MFG as a bargaining chip to garner favor or use as a "high water mark" !!
No other trade gets this kind of ...abusive attention !!
I’m in total agreement with par4par. Been saying the same since the 70’s.
MOTOROLA invented the 8-bit microcontroller MC6800 in 1974，，so CNC when？
Everybody asks: Did that first bridgeport see any use or is it a virgin?And that no man can answer.
YEAH...manual machinist...Gray Hair guys...take care of them and learn from them...not sure they are coming back ...
Assuming that I make it to heaven, I sure hope that it has a machine shop like that that I can spend a good deal of my eternal time in. 🙏🏽
Except for the robit. No robits in heaven, please.
Words have meaning. Etch is not interchangeable with engrave. Those machines doing ruling do not etch the lines.
Legal undermines lawful.
Law ~ From the Latin for 'ultimate' or highest truth
Opinion nor consensus hold truth.
The Laws of physics are 100% repeatable, by definition.
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Great vid, however, the interlude music is wayyy too loud. I have to keep the pointer hovering over the sound to turn it down when it comes on and then turn it back up to hear the tour guide.
Could you please record your music at a lower volume!!!!!!!!!