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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 Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
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.
This lathe was still in occasional use. 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 buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
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 Hendey Machine Co. Torrington Conn. U.S.A.
The size is as follows:
Swing over bed: 18"
Swing over carriage: unknown
Chuck diameter: unknown
Bed length: 10 feet
It may have been built in the 1905-1920 era, from what I've learned so far.
It has a full feed/threading gearbox.
It is equipped with at least parts of a taper attachment.
The original drive, which may have been a lineshaft or an electric motor is long gone. In its place, a modern 1HP motor with an unknown number of poles drives the conehead through a three-speed automotive transmission and a flat belt to the spindle cone. The owner says the motor will start the spindle in anything but highest gear.
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.
This lathe was still in occasional use. 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 buy it some day, assuming Willie gets tired of it at some point.
More info on Hendey lathes:
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
After the 2014 bicycle art show in Reno, Nevada.
1983 Raleigh roadie with 27" frame and late model Raleigh aluminum-framed comfort bike.
Pseudo HDR conversion with Photomatix
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
This wall divides the kitchen and bathroom in our house in Reno, and is the only one that is not built from solid wood panels, due to the need to carry the plumbing.
I bought a set of six square (plastic Cokin P knock-off) ND filters from a
Chinese eBay seller last July. Never tested 'em until today. I popped in the
graduated ND8 (3 stop), the darkest grad in the set. The set also came with
the plastic filter holder and a large set of metal adapter rings to fit many
lens filter thread sizes.
$17US, shipped, for the whole package.
I had to do a -1.5 stop exposure comp in the computer. It seems that the
camera gets a bit confused by the scene and overexposes. I'll set in-camera
next time.
This was shot with my Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, probably the sharpest one I own. When zoomed to 1:1 on screen, with and without the filter in place, there seems to be
little if any apparent resolution loss, despite the cheesy plastic filter
and the scratch I already made down the center of the filter by being a
dummy.
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
This baby bird fell from its nest in the rafters of our carport here in the high desert. It was set upon by various insects, and was slowly being consumed as I took this photograph. I'm not sure if it was still alive, but there was enough movement to assume so.
These are Jianisi PT-04TM 433MHz flash-trigger receivers. Some of these come with a PC sync jack on the side, in addition to the hot shoe. Mine came with only the hot shoe. Not a big deal- PC jacks are not very reliable, and PC cables are expensive and hard to find.
The receiver on the right is unmodified, and still has the hot shoe in place. I don't think it's a good idea to mount a flash on this hot shoe, as all that holds the shoe to the thin plastic radio receiver body are three tiny self-tapping screws. And the receiver itself is held to the tripod or light stand by a flexible bracket on it's base, making for a tall, shaky stack of trouble.
The better method is to remove the hot shoe entirely from the receiver, and install an inexpensive 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack in it's place. This allows you to use a cheap, reliable, readily available mono or stereo audio patch cord to connect the receiver to your flash.
The receiver can be velcro-mounted to the flash body, or mounted to the light stand with a longer patch cord between it and the flash. Having the receiver at a convenient height, while the flash is up high on a light stand makes it easy to switch it on and off, or change batteries if needed.
The next photo in this set shows the internal view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
Very wide angle coverage, obviously. Too wide for most uses.
The flashhead was powered by a 4,000 w/s Norman 40/40 powerpack, turned down to minimum power.
Camera was set to ISO50 at f/22
This is 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.
It weighs about 4,000 pounds, and is considered a baby of its type.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003. I brought it back here to Northern New York.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
It was originally equipped with a 1HP three-phase motor and a hydraulically-controlled variable-speed spindle drive. I am replacing the original drive and motor with a new three-phase 7.5HP direct-drive motor and a 480V VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
Antique lathe chuck, made by:
The D.E. Whiton Machine Company
New London, Connecticut
United States of America
7.5" four-jaw with L00 backplate spindle adapter.
Single-exposure pseudo-HDR.
Captured at a peace march / rally that I attended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24,_2005_anti-war_protest....
The single exposure was taken with an ancient Nikon 775 2MP point & shoot, then tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro.
Nine year old competition shooter, Shyanne Roberts, from Franklinville, NJ. www.facebook.com/ShyanneRoberts04
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
Washington DC, Saturday March 24, 2018. Hundreds of thousands gathered here today to protest the ever more frequent gun massacres that have sadly become one of the defining features of life in the USA over the past thirty years. The shootings have evolved into increasingly more deadly events because of the ease of obtaining semi-automatic rifles, high capacity ammo magazines and other weapons of war. Organizations like the National Rifle Associations have successfully bribed our national legislators to beat back most attempts to enact sane gun laws that would ban civilian sales of these military munitions. In the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school mass shooting a youth led movement* has become energized and is pushing back against the gun lobby status quo and, it has to be noted, against the entire immoral agenda of Trumpism and 21st Century Republicanism. President Trump spent today at his golf resort in Mar a Lago, Florida. Again.
*There has been an active black led movement against gun violence and other forms of vigilante and police violence in America for many decades but it has been ignored or unfairly reported on by corporate media and actively harassed by police wherever it appeared. The most recent example is the Black Lives Matter movement.
I bought this USB flash drive from eBay seller garysin2008 on 11/29/09 for $13.87, with free shipping from China. What a bargain!, I thought, naively...
Little did I know that 85% of the flash memory being sold on eBay is of faked capacity. It took almost a month to arrive here in the USA.
After having some trouble getting the drive working well, I did some research, and discovered a German program called H2testw that can verify the actual capacity of a flash drive. Mine turned out to be a 4GB model that had been reprogrammed to report itself as 32GB. Some fakes are even worse, having less than 1GB actual capacity.
There is lots more information on this site:
As always, if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is!
There are two more photos in this set, of the internals of this drive.
Please click on the following link to go to an alert page on SOSFakeFlash.com about fraudulent eBay seller garysin2008:
sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/garysin2008-urgent-...
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
My personal little E.R. Amantino (Stoeger) side by side double barrel shotgun.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
THE UNITED NATIONS: One of The Enemies Within
AN ESSAY ABOUT THE UNITED NATIONS, CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM, RECLAIMING OUR NATIONAL UNITY AND HOW THE RETURNING VETERANS OF THE MIDDLE EAST WILL BECOME THE NEW HOPE FOR A UNITED STATES OF PROSPERITY AND CAPITALISM...
by Robert L. Huffstutter
It is kind of like ancient history in that Rome paid tribute to the Huns for a long period of time and all the while the Huns demanded more and more.
If there are those that have not read about the decline of the once great Roman Empire, let me recommend it as reading that will help explain the concern of many United States citizens.
Personally, I view the United Nations as one of the enemies within. Back when the United Nations began, it was a great and wonderful organization, a kind of hope for world peace.
Throughout the years, we have seen it change. I have noticed that in the interest of today's trend in political correctness that has, in my opinion, driven more than a few good women and men totally insane and ruined thought processes that could have added great contributions to the world as a whole, keeping in perspective the reality of boundaries, economics, immigration policies and the prosecution of war criminals. I have seen the love the world had for America turn into a vile hatred due to the propaganda spread by ever-increasing new and strange member nations that held great grudges against the United States and other like nations.
There was room in the United Nations for all nations, but once the issue of religion entered into the hallowed auditoriums of the United Nations, it was, to quote an oft-mispronounced idiom "...all she wrote." Oh, there was no problem with religion as long as it was not associated with Christianity. I have no bones to pick with other religions; I rather admire the Bhuddists, their gentle nature is admirable.
In my opinion, the issues of importance in the United Nations should have remained focused on world hunger, world habitat, world conservation and various earth-be-saved programs. Now, however, the United Nations has started talks about criticism of religion. I do not think Scientology is an issue for the United Nations. If my cousin in Miami wants to write a column about the violence perpetuated by a numerically-focused group of unidentifiable Scientologists, I believe she should have that right. To get to my point immediately, the United Nations is not and should never be used as a forum for discussing ANY type of religious beliefs and I will include ALL OF THE RELIGIONS ON THE FACE OF THIS PLANET. If we are going to address religion in the United Nations, the United Nations should be moved immediately to another nation and the United State should resign. Religion and government in the United States is seperate; so should it be in the United Nations.
Without the United States, where would the U.N. relocate and where would they collect their funds? The more this nation and its leaders pay tribute to the United Nations, the sooner this nation will suffer a collapse that will only be prevented by a complete change of voting habits of this populace. Many of those who have been in Washington for more than two terms have forgotten they are United States citizens and feel like they are beyond reproach involving their initial purpose of representing their people back home; many have lost touch with their constituents and are, in many respects, their own unique and sovereign nation with their own medical care, their own retirement plans, and their own government supplied autos and offices with their own an personal "official" budgets supplied by both their states and the Federal Government. They are the ELITE, like the elite in the nations that have covertly removed democracy and capitalism, replacing them with socialism, the first step, as history proves, to the adoption of communism.
Shame on our Senators and Representatives who are no longer representing their constituents but representing and supporting each other, making alliances that are all too often personal and financially influenced to add wealth to their own accounts. If there is a spread the wealth mentatlity here, it is spreading the wealth within their own elite society.
Many in the government today have not spent one day in the military, a sad fact because unless one serves in the military it is almost impossible to understand how military minds work when it comes to serving for one purpose and one purpose only, the preservation of freedom for all, especially the home folks, the people back home in the seperate states, the boundaried domains of republics that are a homeland within a Homeland.
The last successful collection of homelands within a Homeland that were socialist republics with a "united" that was not a name but an afterthought was the USSR and as we all know, they went bankrupt, closed, went out of business. There are those in America today who have lost faith in private enterprise, but not so much "private enterprise" but Capitalism. No, these people are not the enemies within, they are not the enemies of the state, they are but confused men and women who have confused economic thoughts, men and women who have no real knowledge of American history, men and women who have looked upon Sweden and Norway, a blue-eyed and blonde-haired bunch with what seems a perfect socialist system, albeit that their taxes are the highest in the world, they have the best healthcare programs. How ironic that long after the fall of blonde-haired and blue-eyed Colonialism, third world personalities admire another Anglo scheme that has yet to be completely revealed. We had best stick to what the forefathers had in mind for American economics. Capitalism won't work?
It worked a lot longer than any socialism that I can recall. My God, I hope we continue to thrive and succeed as a nation that is a Capitalistic nation and do not fall victim to yet another blonde-haired and blue-eyed concoction like Scandanavian Socialism. I chose the Scandanavian brand of socialism rather than the socialism of the third world nations because there are so many more wide-screen televisions and Volvos in the Scandanavian brand. Confused? Do not be. Let us make certain, however, that the next President is an avowed Capitalist. But what do we do about all of the career Senators and Representatives, so many of them with snowy hair, an indication of retirement age? What do we do with them? We have no gulags in America, thankfully. It is time to send these stately gentlemen, white and black, back home to where they began, back home to become reacquainted with their homelands in the winter of their lives.
IT IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE WE HAVE A NEW GENERATION OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE SERVED HONORABLY IN THE MILITARY, much like the men and women who served America in World War Two and Korea, a generation that helped America remain great and prosperous. Hopefully, these post war vets of the Middle East will want to serve in government. Let us not give up hope, thousand upon thousand of military veterans will once again serve the states and this nation and we shall be vigilant in a united effort once again.
POSTED 20 APRIL 2009 BY ROBERT L. HUFFSTUTTER, UNEDITED, NOT PROOFREAD AS OF THIS HOUR.
Guns on display at anti-Islam rally in Phoenix. Protesters brought plenty of firepower to a protest against Islamic terrorism and Islam itself on October 10. Police separated them a smaller group of counter-protesters. Held in front of the Islamic Community Center, the event was part of a broader "Global Rally for Humanity," with similar protests scheduled in other cities that day.
This is the knob and dial on the cross-slide leadscrew of my late 1960s Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
This is 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.