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

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Жыл бұрын

Have you ever wondered how machine tools looked in the 1850s? Or were the modern precision machine tool industry originated? Join us as we tour the ‪@AmericanPrecisionMuseum‬, a place that gave birth to the ancestors of many of the machine tools currently used.
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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@walterkucharski4790 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jamesspash5561 Жыл бұрын

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.

@waltervancleave6495 Жыл бұрын

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

@davidschwartz5127 Жыл бұрын

It to bad that your region turned completely against what made this area the greatest machinist breadbasket of the United States

@Thekarlskorner Жыл бұрын

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.

@jerrylor60 Жыл бұрын

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

@smplyizzy Жыл бұрын

It’s too bad all the firearms manufactures have more or less have left the northeast states because of all the political wackiness and taxation.

@itsmatt2105 Жыл бұрын

Why wasn't Eli Whitney and his showmanship of up-ending a box of interchangeable parts in front of congress and telling them to assemble a gun from any parts they grabbed out of the pile (which they protested couldn't be done but then astonished themselves by doing) mentioned here?

@2dividedby3equals666 Жыл бұрын

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

@iansandusky417 Жыл бұрын

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

@europaeuropa3673 Жыл бұрын

Those guys were geniuses.

@michaelburns9172 Жыл бұрын

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

@mp6756 Жыл бұрын

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.

@oceanpinemaine Жыл бұрын

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.

@ronjohnson9032 Жыл бұрын

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.

@johnwasilewski7390 Жыл бұрын

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.

@charleslicha2770 Жыл бұрын

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.

@darius8214 Жыл бұрын

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

@dennisstempien5973 Жыл бұрын

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

@gbyoung2 Жыл бұрын

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.