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Subject: Factories; Industrial Facilities; Tool & die industry; Ohio--Hamilton; miami digital collections; bowden postcard collection
I have always been in awe of power tools. I was photographing these to sell... but really they are Art.
Our rental condo in Branson, MO was decorated with rustic camping/hunting items. None of us could figure out what the tool was. It is about 30 inches long. The "blade" looking portion is just a thin untapered piece of aluminum. There are springs on the curved metal pieces.
Visit to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum on January 5, 2011. The museum is at Auburn Hills, Michigan
in the Chrysler Headquarters complex.
These are Walter P. Chrysler's actual tools, some of which he made himself. When Chrysler's office was in the Chrysler Building in New York City, he proudly displayed them there.
I spent yesterday afternoon recycling some more of my discarded prints into small envelopes with string/button closures. I used a few pretty blue eyelets I had bought on one of our trips to the US. I should have bought more, they're really useful for all sorts of crafts. I bought the little hammer, the eyelet setting tool & tiny hole punch at the same craft supply shop.
A stall in the market at Bury St Edmunds. I remember looking at a display of tools in a shop window with my father when I was about fifteen; he said to me, "Son, you look at these tools and see the word PLAY but I see the word WORK."
Anyone who knows me, knows that home improvement and I get along like goldfish and the sahara... and while there are those who would claim that I'm just lazy, I like to think it's more that I just know my own limitations.
When it comes to the house, I have a certain standard of quality that I know is just beyond my skills as a carpenter (or plumber, or electrician, etc...) and rather than cobble together some half-assed solution, I'd rather just pay someone to do it right.
That being said, there are a few easy to mid-level projects that I am comfortable undertaking when the need arises. The problem with that however, is that based on my admitted shortcomings in the handyman areas of expertise... I lack the tools to properly do anything, so I always have to borrow them from people who have them. (And these are the kind of people, who always look at you like you're not he-manly enough to own a drill, so you must be soft... or lazy)
Well, the days of borrowing are over... I bought myself a sweet set of tools, more powerful than a locomotive... or something like that anyway.
Because I was tired of melting in my living room (which for some reason is always hotter than the the third level of hell -- this could be due to the relatively small size of the room, the giant TV, and a halogen lamp as the only light source) it was time to put the air conditioner back in the window.
Here again, this is no simple task. Because of the style of window installed, there isn't any significant window ledge to support the giant-ass air conditioner needed to keep the room cool, so it requires an outside system of support to keep the unit from falling out and taking the window with it.
In the past, I've simply cobbled together (the above mentioned half-assed solution) something that did the job. This year I vowed to build something a little more sturdy and permanent so I wouldn't have to do it again every year.
For that I needed tools.
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Soldering material : Soldering torch. Honey comb ceramic soldering block and piece of asbestos. Brush and tweezers. Lighter and mesh screen. Liquid flux.
The first off the line from my new Tool Series.
Pre-set details, custom sizing.
Photo by David Rangel
PROJECT:
Tooling at Knowlton
PHOTO CREDIT:
Aranda\Lasch
Exhibit / Work Shop
Knowlton School of Architecture
Columbus Ohio
2006
Our good friends at Prometheus Design Werx recently sent over one of their newest edged tools for us to take a look at, the Griffin Knife. My first thought when looking at the Griffin is that the skeletonized tang harks back to old dive knives of the past and a style I’m particularly fond of. I also keyed in a feature that PDW is calling the “Strikeback,” which is a ferro-rod-striker ground out of the spine.
This first look at the Griffin won’t be a review, but rather a summary and some initial impressions noted from handling this prototype knife for the last few weeks.
The tool-chest is scratchbuilt,the gears leaning against the trailer are from a disposable cigarette lighter,and the decals are dry-transfers from Scale Accents,(I think?)...
(ink illustration by Buck O'Donnell in 1967; public display, World Museum of Mining, Butte, Montana, USA)
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The town of Butte, Montana (pronounced “byoot”) is known as the “Richest Hill on Earth” and "The Mining City". The Butte Mining District has produced gold, silver, copper, molybdenum, manganese, and other metals.
The area's bedrock consists of the Butte Quartz Monzonite (a.k.a. Butte Pluton), which is part of the Boulder Batholith. The Butte Quartz Monzonite ("BQM") formed 76.3 million years ago, during the mid-Campanian Stage in the Late Cretaceous. BQM rocks have been intruded and altered by hydrothermal veins containing valuable metallic minerals - principally sulfides. The copper mineralization has been dated to 62-66 million years ago, during the latest Maastrichtian Stage (latest Cretaceous) and Danian Stage (Early Paleocene). In the supergene enrichment zone of the area, the original sulfide mineralogy has been altered.
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From exhibit signage:
Why do miners drill?
Drilling holes allow explosives to be placed and detonated inside solid rock to break it loose from the world and into pieces.
Iron tools, like hammers, picks, and chisels have been used to mine since the beginning of the Iron Age, about 2000 B.C. There were no explosives, so rock was simply beaten to pieces or wedged apart. Oddly enough, it took over 300 years after the invention of gunpowder before it was used to break rocks. Even then, for may years it was only used in natural cracks and fissures.
The first known use of drilled holes filled with gunpowder to break rock was in Germany in 1613. It was used exclusively for 250 years and continued to be used in coal mining and other special applications well into the 20th Century.
Unbelievably, pure liquid nitroglycerine, one of the most sensitive and unstable explosives known, was used extensively for rock blasting after the American Civil War. Both manufacturing and transportation were extremely hazardous. The slightest impurity or error could cause a batch to explode when the chemicals were combined. It was hauled around in bone-jarring wagons on rough roads. Documented cases tell of wagonloads rolling down mountains without detonating, but others that exploded from an insignificant cause, like a kid throwing a rock.
Alfred Nobel, the creator of the Nobel Prize, invented dynamite in 1868, using an absorbent material to de-sensitize nitroglycerine. He also invented the blasting cap to reliably set it off. The first dynamite plant in the United States was built in San Francisco in 1870, but it did not come into common use for nearly ten years until after the manufacturing and transportation methods were perfected.
Hand Drilling
For 250 years, strong men swinging hammers against the iron drills was the only means of drilling holes in rock. One man drilling alone was called "single-jacking", while teams of two ore more, using heavier hammers, was "double-jacking". It was slow, hard, dangerous work with only oil lamps and candles for light. Buck O'Donnell's drawings show the drillers at work, but the white pages do not convey doing it in smoky, dusty, near-darkness and stifling heat.
[A] granite block [was] a contest stone. Drillers would compete in front of huge crowds for the title and prestige of drilling the deepest hole in fifteen minutes. Butte miners Walter Bradshaw and Mike McNichols hold the world's record for double-jacking, just shy of four feet.
However, two ordinary drillers working 10-12 hour shifts, day after day, year after year, drilled only four to six inches in hard rock during the same 15 minutes. Advancing a mine tunnel four feet took about a thousand inches of drilling, over eight days of constant drilling. Taking advantage of natural fractures was an important skill the best miners learned to cut this time down, but tunnel progress still averaged less than a foot a day.
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Caption accompanying illustration:
SINGLE JACKING
Single jacking on upper holes was tiring on the hand and arm. To lessen the fatigue, old miners used a thong on the hammer handle which permitted the opening and relaxing of the hand on the back stroke.
It felt good to straighten up and putter at Beth's Bicycle Braintrust today. (Homemade work bench, from scrap wood and old TriMet signs.)
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