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1944 SA and 1942 SA. The 1942 has a Boyd's replacement stock on it.
There were four guys at the rifle range today (counting us), and everyone had a Garand.
Creekside Firing Range, Taylorsville GA
This large and ancient metal lathe is located in Lookout, California, in Lassen County, Big Valley. This is in the boonies of Northern CA.
The label reads:
The Muller Lathe
Built by
The Bradford Mill Co.
Cincinatti, Ohio
USA
The size is as follows, roughly measured:
Swing over bed: 20"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Four-jaw chuck diameter: 18"
Bed length: 12 feet
Bed width, center to center across the outer two ways: 16”
Maximum workpiece length, center to center: 8 feet
It may have been built in the 1886-1901 era, from what I've learned so far.
It is owned by a fine older gentleman named Willie. He owns a LARGE property full of old tractors, cars, trucks, bulldozers and vehicles of varied and sundry description. My girlfriend Zoe bought a 1955 Carpenter (1954 GMC based) school bus from him, and he towed it the 17 miles to our Ranch with his old tractor on public roads:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vihuX5mIFSA
Photos of the bus can be seen in another set of mine:
www.flickr.com/photos/darronb/sets/72157635098965316/
Willie also renovates and runs old steam engines. His tools are basic and in, umm, often less than pretty condition.
I believe he told me that despite its condition, having been outside for many years, this lathe was still in occasional use, wonder of wonders. I expect that it could be restored to its former glory by a man willing and able to put a LOT of time and/or money into it. I plan to list it for sale soon, online. If nothing else, it makes a magnificent lawn ornament.
Almost all of the images in this set were 3-exp HDRs, processed with Photomatix. The camera was a Nikon D50.
More info on Bradford lathes:
I bought this very slightly used Phoenix 650-1300mm f/8-f/16 T-mount lens from an eBay seller. It cost only $80
The lens was made by Samyang in Korea, and is sold under many brand names, such as:
Bower, Falcon, Opteka, Phoenix, Polar, Pro-Optic, Vivitar, Walimex and Rokinon
I have a beat-up 3X Vivitar teleconverter for the Nikon F mount, which I will try with the Samyang at some point, just for fun. Three stops of light reduction will likely be rather challenging to use- the Samyang is f/16 at the long end, meaning the 3X Vivitar would make it an f/45! Also, effective focal length would go to 3,900mm. On a 1.5X crop factor DSLR, this would go to 5,850mm, yikes!
It may be that with the lens at 650mm and f/8, the camera will record as much real subject resolution as with the lens at 1350mm and f/16. There is no diaphragm in the lens, so these apertures are all that are available (Focal lengths in between the two extremes will have commensurate apertures). So if subject res. is no better at 1300mm than 650mm, then always shooting at 650mm will give two stops faster aperture for faster shutter speeds and/or lower ISO, and a much wider field of view, which can be cropped to offer similar subject detail.
Focal length changes are made by loosening a lock ring on the lens barrel, then extending or retracting the lens. It looks rather weird at full extension (1300mm), as seen here. The camera body is a Nikon D600, which looks rather small in comparison.
This is a control dial on my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
Photograph published on 9/17/2023 { link below}
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Photograph also published on January 4, 2024 (link below)
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Photograph also published on January 4, 2024 { link below}
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2nd amendment gun toting liberal. I am still trying to figure out for myself what "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" means. I am not a communist. I am not a Socialist. I am not a 100% capitalist. I am a critical thinker. I am a firm believer in the scientific method. It is important for all of us to understand the difference between "Theory" when it comes to science and common speech. Trying to lump me into a side is absolutely ridiculous. Sides are only for fighting rather than discussing the truth and coming up with solutions. I am a solution orientated kinda guy. In that knowing that I have to compromise.
Zia Pueblo on 550 Hwy between Bernalillo & Cuba, New Mexico USA ~ Copyright ©2012 Bob Travaglione ~ www.FoToEdge.com
Rusty 1955 Steelcraft school bus, built with a Carpenter body model D on what I believe is a 1954 GMC chassis. Date of delivery 11/54.
This 7-window (28 adult passengers or 42 wee ones).
The transmission is a four-speed manual. Brakes are power assisted drums, but steering is manual (unassisted).
The inline six-cylinder gasoline (petrol) engine develops all of a wimpy 115 horsepower (86 kilowatts).
Displacement is 270 cubic inch (4.4 liter).
GVWR is 14,500 pounds (6,577 Kilograms).
Driving it over the mountains will be a chore, to be sure (I think I can!, I think I can!).
A previous owner converted it into a motorhome / RV, complete with propane cylinders, refrigerator, sink, toilet, etc.
It is for sale, at the right price. We'll just have to see how attached to it we've become, depending on offers.
Or, we may get it running some day and drive it 170 miles over the hill to Burning Man, where it will be well suited as a camper / party bus.
This photo was made with my old Nikkor-S 50mm f/1.4 lens. It was made in 1972 or 1973. It is quite scratched, dusty and maybe even has a little fungus growing, along with damaged coatings.
Nonetheless, it is fun to play with. I performed a crude AI-modification to the aperture ring (I used a file). The lens now works perfectly with my Nikon D600 (full metering and focus confirmation).
3/14/2018 Mike Orazzi | Staff
Bristol police while blocking the entrance to members of the media as Bristol Eastern High School students walked out of school Wednesday to mark the one month anniversary of the Parkland school shooting. Students planned to stay outside for 17 minutes, one minute for each victim, they also want more gun control.
My messy workbench.
Six exposure HDR image.
Red Lee reloading press. Red Craftsman bench vise. Jet benchtop drill press. Two-axis machining vise on drill press table. Kennedy machinist's toolbox.
The little box to the right of the drill press with the glowing red LED display is a VFD (Variable Frequency Drive). It runs a three-phase motor, and allows my drill press to be easily changed from very low speed, all the way to 3600RPM in one smooth turn of the speed knob.
I got brave, and started hacking on my nearly new Rokinon fisheye well after midnight. With the able assistance of my surgeon girlfriend's steady hands, I managed to remove the huge, fragile front element with a pair of scissors.
I mounted a rear lens cap, and covered the lens barrel with packing tape. I cut two circles of card stock to fit tightly inside the hood. They served to keep the dust and bits out.
To cut the hood down, I used a small abrasive cutoff wheel, meant for a Dremel-type rotary tool. The wheel was chucked in my tiny Harbor Freight bench top drill press, and the lens handheld on the drill press table, with the end cap resting on the table, and the table height adjusted to place the cutting wheel right inline with the intended cut line around the hood (shoulda taken a photo or video of this setup, I know).
Multiple careful passes around the plastic hood neatly separated it. Some sanding and deburring with a utility knife soon had it looking almost like it was made this way. You can see the duller finish on the front of the remaining portion of the hood.
The remaining challenge is to make a good lens cap. The original mounted to the hood, so will no longer fit. The bulging front element and vestigial hood leave minimal mounting options. I'm considering designing a cap in CAD, then having it 3D printed out of ABS. It will be a challenge to get a proper snap fit on the remaining portion of the lens hood. I might even integrate a knob on the front of the cap, to ease installation and removal.
This is my winning entry in the 2013 City of Reno "Living in Reno" themed photo contest. I think this was a three-shot HDR set at ISO100 and f/8, with the longest exposure at 30 seconds to smooth out the flow of the river. Cropped from a full-frame, (nearly) circular fisheye image.
8mm f/3.5 Rokinon fisheye lens on full frame Nikon D600. Lens hood "shaved" for better coverage on full frame.
Here is the city web site with details:
Here is the Pinterest page where the entrants' works were shown.
Here's my first effort at focus stacking with a conventional macro rail. The subject is an old Elgin wristwatch that I sold on eBay. I thought it important to show the internals on such an old collectible, thus the effort.
Please comment if you like this photo, or if you have any questions.
The image was made by placing the watch on a simple wooden stand inside my photo tent. I have some Protostar flocked light trap material on the wooden stand, to greatly reduce reflections and provide a nearly black background.
My Nikon D600 camera was on a tripod by the front of the photo tent, with an inexpensive macro rail between the tripod and camera. The front flap on the tent was down, draped over the camera, to fill in the on-axis nooks and crannies.
Lighting was from two off-camera Nikon flashes, one on each side of the tent, triggered by radio remote and optical slave. The tent softens the light from the flashes, giving it more of a wrap-around effect, and reducing hard reflections from highlights on the subject. Flash power (1/8, I think) and camera exposure were manual. Aperture was f/8 for best resolution. Camera ISO was at its base of 100 for maximum image quality.
Once set up and framed, I used the macro rail to step the relative position of the camera and subject, triggering the shutter remotely at each step. This means the plane of perfect focus moved through the shallow subject in 23 steps, each spaced by moving the macro rail knob “a smidgen”.
I used Zerene Stacker (trial version) to combine the 23 images into one sharp, full resolution photo, which was further tweaked with Nikon ViewNX 2.
I have other photos of this watch on Flickr, so check out the images in this set.