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    Looks like he's balancing it. Notice the fingertips. Must have a deep slot in the floor of the shop.

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    That's just a single blade of a multi blade setup...

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    Agreed.
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    That's just a single blade of a multi blade setup...
    It's set up on a knife edge arrangement for static balance, just like grinding wheels. The center to right takes one end with prop laid down, guarantee that shroud to left houses a profiling template and sander, judging by tool marks.

    1942, one out of how many propellers 3 something years?
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    I started to teach Precision Machining at the High School level in 2013, but some days - I swear it was 1913! We do have dial calipers now, but I'd trade 3 of our import lathes for that one in the picture. It's probably still making chips somewhere (or at least capable of doing so).

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    Workers installing a new drive motor rotor at Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation's Aliquippa Works. Aliquippa, PA. 1953.

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    Printers at the International Association of Machinists. Washington, D.C. January, 1922.

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    Construction crew at Mesta Machine Company. March, 1918. West Homestead, PA.

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    Mesta Machine Company foundry department. West Homestead, PA.

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    What is going on here?

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    I believe #2798 shows the foundry molding floor with a lot of what appear to be core prints placed in the mold. The pattern has already been removed.

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