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The seller told me when NASA suggested upgrading their machine shop, the workers told them they were crazy and the equipment many Bridgeport CT built machines would never be built again. Lots of stuff here that was made during the WW2 "Arsenal of Democracy" buildup. With Newport News Shipbuilding, Norfolk Navy Yard and probably hundreds, if not thousands of sub contractors. I knew a gent who owned a machine shop during the 1960s who had a lathe that was 40 feet long. I was there when a customer brought a car their made before 1910 to have a part fabricated. The man who drove the car to the shop was the same man who built the car brand new, around 1908.
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mech
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