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  1. Dec 23, 2019, 06:04 PM #1
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    1959 Blaw-Knox steel plant sugar mill casting - photo

    1959 Blaw-Knox steel plant sugar mill casting.




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    Just a wee bit to high for setting it on the table.

    Wait a minute. He is standing on the table. That is one beeeeeg milling machine!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mwmkravchenko View Post
    Just a wee bit to high for setting it on the table.

    Wait a minute. He is standing on the table. That is one beeeeeg milling machine!
    Appears to be floor plates, with a portable [sic, lol and a couple tee-hee's] milling column. In this case, lots of vertical travel, decent quill travel, X not so much.



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