Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
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Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
I finally got the chance to go down to the American Precision museum which combines my two favorite things: machine tools and guns!!! Windsor, Vermont was a major machine and manufacturing center, producing a significant number of the guns and machines that make guns during the civil war and beyond.
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
What a museum to visit when in the area! Thanks for posting.
Link to the home page: http://www.americanprecision.org/
Link to the home page: http://www.americanprecision.org/
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Oooops. I didnt even think to post the link... Thanks for that!
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Very cool!
Thanks!
Thanks!
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
One of them there in the middle didn't seem to fit with the 'historic' atmosphere, but I guess it may be equally or perhaps even more significant down the road.
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Thanks for the tour Jack!
I think that part of the country at one time had the greatest inventors on earth!!!!!!!
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I think that part of the country at one time had the greatest inventors on earth!!!!!!!
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Being a machinist, I really enjoyed seeing that. Thank you.
I think they were still using that stuff at work when I first started!
I think they were still using that stuff at work when I first started!
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Thanks for the tour! What a cool place to spend time in. The lock inletting machine looks like a real Rub Goldburg machine. They where great mechanics in those days.
Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Wow, that place looks awesome! Thanks for sharing,
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
ditto on the thanks. amazing and wonderful stuff, genius.
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Wow, thanks for the pictures. You gotta admire what those guys went through with the old manual hands-on equipment and the leather belt power source.
What struck me was the possibilities they had then that they did not know about. Had I shown up then with blueprints for an AR-15 or FN FAL, they would have been perfectly capable (albeit slowly) of turning one out.
Or say a 1911, although that would be been about 60 years early and we would have to call it the 1851.
These are thoughts that drive the alternate history folks nuts.
What struck me was the possibilities they had then that they did not know about. Had I shown up then with blueprints for an AR-15 or FN FAL, they would have been perfectly capable (albeit slowly) of turning one out.
Or say a 1911, although that would be been about 60 years early and we would have to call it the 1851.
These are thoughts that drive the alternate history folks nuts.
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Thanks Jack, for the tour.
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+1!plowboy 45 wrote:Thanks Jack, for the tour.
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Re: Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)
Thanks for sharing a great time in American history. Its hard to imagine that we were once the industrial leader of the world and now it's all gone.
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