Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)

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FatJackDurham
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Visited the American Precision Museum (pic heavy)

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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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What a museum to visit when in the area! Thanks for posting.

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Oooops. I didnt even think to post the link... Thanks for that!
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Very cool!
Thanks!
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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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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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Being a machinist, I really enjoyed seeing that. Thank you.
I think they were still using that stuff at work when I first started! :lol:
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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.
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Wow, that place looks awesome! Thanks for sharing,


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ditto on the thanks. amazing and wonderful stuff, genius.

want to handle every wheel and lever

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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.
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Thanks Jack, for the tour.
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plowboy 45 wrote:Thanks Jack, for the tour.
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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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