High-quality black-and-white photographs of large old machines and tools

[Toolmaker51]

You know you're getting old when you remember that black and white commercial for Twenty Mule Team Borax cleaner. Good stuff.

Don't know if I recall them or not.
Uh oh.

[TrickieDickie]

I remember the Borax commercials it was used around a western series, maybe early Wagon Train ?

[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company air compressor. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.

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[Ralphxyz]

I'd like to see the motors.

[jimfols]

Mesta Machine Company air compressor. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.

It's been discussed before. But never having worked around bolts this large, these images fascinate me.

[Jon]

Mesta Machine Company vacuum pump. West Homestead, PA. 1905/1925.

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[IntheGroove]

The railing around the flywheel appears to be threaded pipe. If so, how did they assemble it...

[12bolts]

Jim,
Biggest nut & bolt I ever dealt with

Cheers Phil

[marksbug]

oh great you found the ring gear bolt out of my dana!

[old kodger]

The railing around the flywheel appears to be threaded pipe. If so, how did they assemble it...

The posts at the ends with the balls on them are not threaded