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Stewart Rhine

May 19, 2016 05:25AM

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GeorgeGaskill Wrote:
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> How much practice did the crew have before doing
> the boiler?

We did one rivet on a piece of plate stock the previous day.

It is interesting to note that this steam era machine, circa 1880 was last used some 60 years ago. Our shop crew did a good job restoring the pneumatic riveter and it will build a new boiler as it did 130 years ago.

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An amazing machine	Wayne Laepple	May 18, 2016 05:41PM
Re: An amazing machine	RDannemann	May 18, 2016 06:41PM
Re: An amazing machine	philip.marshall	May 18, 2016 06:54PM
Re: An amazing machine	John Cole	May 18, 2016 08:22PM
Re: An amazing machine	GeorgeGaskill	May 19, 2016 12:47AM
Re: An amazing machine	Stewart Rhine	May 19, 2016 05:25AM
Re: An amazing machine	Tom Moungovan	May 19, 2016 01:18PM
Re: An amazing machine	GeorgeGaskill	May 20, 2016 08:40PM
Re: An amazing machine	Stewart Rhine	May 21, 2016 05:38AM
Re: An amazing machine	John Cole	May 21, 2016 07:46AM
Re: An amazing machine	Stewart Rhine	May 21, 2016 03:33PM
Re: An amazing machine	diget	May 19, 2016 03:33PM
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Re: A riveting video . . .	Johnson Barr	May 19, 2016 08:30PM
Re: A riveting video . . .	Stewart Rhine	May 19, 2016 09:04PM
Re: An amazing machine	Dirk Ramsey	May 19, 2016 09:11PM
Re: An amazing machine	John Liebson	May 20, 2016 07:39AM
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