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Subdeacon Joe

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I remember working on some machines set up like that. There was a lathe, a surface grinder, and a couple other machines all run off 1 motor with all those belts.

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My dad and grandfather had a machine shop that produced artificial limbs, "Hooks", during WWII. They had three or four freestanding lathes and mills. All the other machinery was driven by one motor through a series of belts. Pretty scary place for a three or four year old kid. I can remember oily metal shavings two to three inches deep all over the floor and a huge pile of the same, along with other scrap in back of the shop. EPA would have a wonderful time in that place today. Every now and then I'll someone with one of their "Hooks"even today.

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There was an old feller in Buchtel -- that's the Buchtel in Athens County, near Nelsonville, not the one here in the Yankee flat lands -- the old gent rang his entire machine shop with a steam tractor.

When a big area wide power outage hit, he never even noticed.

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