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Gear Manufacturing: The Precision Line (1964)
🕑 Added 2021-11-06 19:47:35 +0000 UTCFrom Gears to Golf in scintillating Kodachrome! This promotional film by the Fellows Gear Shaper Company in Springfield Vermont has stunningly photographed footage of the processes and machinery for gear fabrication, and seems to have been intended as part sales pitch for machinery and part Rotary Club promo for Springfield. The age of the film is approximated by the new '64 Cadillac driving through one shot, but otherwise is undated.
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Chris Crowther
I love how it switches to a Tourist Information film part way through.
i have no terminal yet i must shitpost
You know what, I don't usually comment on these sorts of things but this video really... grinds my gears. I'll show myself out.
Matt Wietlispach
I think I saw some of these scenes in a Monsanto promotional film featuring their miraculous PCB oils that were very hard to burn. But you only needed daily contact with the stuff to get liver damage and cancer. There was noting in the PCBs that existed in nature. I'm, no chemist, but it was explained to me that this completely man-made oil had an ultra-dense carbon chain and it was impossible to destroy short of an arc furnace. It's breakdown in nature is centuries. God only knows what those gear-makers did when the oil was too contaminated to be recirculated. I wonder what they did with something like titanium?
William E Lee
Aside from the sexist commentary, the film does show some of the finest pre CNC machine tools made anywhere. Thanks Fran!
Mike Stubbs
I'm a ViewMaster hound, too- and you are absolutely correct.
Paul Pruss
"we decided to watch her form to see if it was different from those previously seen. It was!" LOL - couldn't imagine that in a training / promo film today. ;-)
David Peaker
There is something special about Kodachrome. I collect viewmaster reels which in the 50s were produced using Kodachrome and are as colourful now as they were then, whereas reels from the 80s, made with presumably cheaper film, have badly faded to red.
Stephen Woods
Kodachrome, they give us those nice bright colours They give us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So mama don't take my Kodachrome away
HarveyB
Gear cutting is still pretty much the same as it was then with few exceptions. The material handling side of things is simpler with programmable equipment but cutting involute teeth still needs a special cutter to get a reasonable production rate.
BobC
Every process pretty much needs a different machine! So glad we have multi-axis CNC machines these days.
