Great videos

[Intheshop]

Go to criticalpast Springfield rifleson YouTube. Or instead of Springfield put in Browning.

There's a whole series of WW1 videos,most are around 3-5 minutes long. Probably about 20 or so videos. I thought about posting it in the project's forum but put it here instead. And no,not savvy enough to add a link.

There's a huge difference (doh) in manufacturing between WWl and WWll. The earlier machines are of more interest to project guys here because of the way these machines got developed. By the second war,there were manufactured machines taking the role..... whereas in these videos most of the equipment is being built,inhouse.

How that helps us shop guys is the slackjaw creativity expressed in their fixturing vs,just buying said. I watched a dz or so and picked up about that many new,"alternative" approaches. Have never seen such a dramatic example of how ingenuity gets lost as we progress in machine design.

If you're stuck in the mindset that CNC trumps all..... don't bother watching. If you want some ridiculously easy to implement shop strategies, grab the popcorn,a soda and pull up a chair. Heck,I even learned a cpl dust collection tricks.

 

[Intheshop]

Here's a screenshot of slide out tooling stowage.... something discussed in Jeff H goin green thread

Video title below

Men and women work inside Browning Machine Gun factory in the United States.

 

[Pistolero]

Here is one on Garands.

Here is the man himself with some of his designs.

Here they are making US Model of 1917 rifles (US Enfields)

 

[Intheshop]

Thanks for posting those Pistolero!

 

[Pistolero]

You are welcome. If you are actually on the youtube web site, as opposed to having
linked in through a search engine, the way to do this is not too complex. Go to the
one you are interested in and start watching it. I pause them to keep the sound from
distracting me, but not required.

Look near the top of your browser for the address location, a single line. It will say-

"http://www.youtube.com/watch" followed by a bunch of gobbledy goop characters.
This is the web address of the particular video that you are watching.

Click on this address, and it will be highlighted. Now - hold down the Ctrl key while you
hit the "c" key. This "copies" the highlighted text into a temporary storage location
in your computer called the copy buffer.

You should have had the window in this cast bullets web site open, and have started
your post. Open that window, and put the cursor where you want the address to be
placed in the post, and now hold down the 'Ctrl' key again, and hit the "p" key to 'paste' this stored
group of characters from your temporary storage location to the location on your current
page where the cursor is located.

The address is still stored in the storage location (copy buffer) and you could go to
another place or another page and paste it there, too, if it was needed. It remains until you
write over it with a new copy "Ctrl - c" command, or until the computer is powered down.

To do a second one, open the next interesting video in the youtube window, repeat the process -
highlight the address, copy (Ctrl-c) it, switch windows to where you want the address, locate the
cursor where you want it to go, and paste (Ctrl- p) it there.

Occasionally, the single click highlighting will not work, so you have to hold down
and drag over the address to get it highlighted. Not sure why this sometimes happens,
but it does.

Not difficult at all. Copy and paste are useful in any situation where you want to grab
a bunch of text and copy it somewhere else without having to type the whole thing over
again. It will work in almost all windows on a Windows computer.

Bill

 

[Pistolero]

Here is one on final assembly and test firing the BAR.

Bill

 

[Pistolero]

German artillery barrel manufacturing in WW1. Core drilling the barrel, then
hammering in a wedge to break off the core, dump it out. Not sure why they are
not through drilling it, unless it is a huge mortar with an integral breech.

Then rifling the barrel, very cool to watch.

Bill

 

[Pistolero]

BAR butt stocks, handguards, and then reciever threading for barrels, dilling side holes
and then gang milling the top reciever contour.

Very interesting equipment.

Bill