Battleship Texas Machine Shop
- Greg_Lewis
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Re: Battleship Texas Machine Shop
Thanks for sharing. Most interesting.
Greg Lewis, Prop.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Eyeball Engineering — Home of the dull toolbit.
Our motto: "That looks about right."
Celebrating 35 years of turning perfectly good metal into bits of useless scrap.
Re: Battleship Texas Machine Shop
I have an 11" Sheldon lathe that saw duty onboard a liberty ship. As close as I can tell, it was a late 40's lathe and by its condition, didn't see much use. When I got it, sone of the ship's allowance components showed little or no signs of wear. I bought it in San Francisco for $650 from a machine tool dealer. That was around 1975. I understand there are a whole lot of Sheldon lathes and others at the bottom of the Atlantic, victims of U-boats. Many ended up in the UK after the war and found their way into private machine shops.
Mr.Ron from South Mississippi
Re: Battleship Texas Machine Shop
Mr. Ron, that seems to be one of the great things about lathes from ships. Most were not used heavily.