Battleship New Jersey's Machine Shop
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- In this episode we're taking a look at the battleship's machine shop, power shop, and hull technician's shop as well as taking a look into a couple of the uptakes that are nearby those spaces that are used as storage.
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I was the LPO of the BB62 machine shop from 1985 to 1987. The stuff we fabricated on here was tough work at times. We made tons of gears, mainly spur gears. I made a helical gear for a lube oil pump. We fabricated remote operated gearboxes, I could go on and on. My name should still be stamped in the deck of the grind shop: MR2 (SW) LAWRENCE.
We show the names on the floor in the video!
Also, heres a picture of your group: photos.app.goo.gl/WVGFbqpALfjiABBYA
@@BattleshipNewJersey Wow, that's super cool to see the loop closed like that. Awesome! Much respect sent out to Lee Lawrence and his group for being out there keeping us safe.
Were all those pecker holes in the radial drill press table when you were there Lee?
@@wdcjunk Yes. And I'm sure a few more appeared after I transferred.
When you give a tour of a machine shop, you need to have a machinist describe each machine. Machining nerds need details.
Great video.
Yes the bullard is called a VTL, vertical turret lathe.
@@000-v8v9w I was troubled by the same mistake and jumped to the comments to make the same correction. I didn't see any turret, so I thought that it was a vertical lathe.
I think that was a Bridgeport on the left.
There is a Bridgeport on the left, right behind the Bullard vertical turret lathe which is right behind the drill press.
Lodge and Shipley Lathe.
The amount of planning that goes into building something like this is mind boggling.
I think in one of these videos he said there were 2 tons of blueprints!
So. Many. Blueprints. A very large room with boxes stacked to the ceiling.
@@BattleshipNewJersey Awesome they still exist! Hope they are being preserved!
Those blueprints should all be digitized!
We're working on it. Most of them require a special scanner that we don't have though, they're huge!
I have been waiting for this video. Machine Shop, Shipfitter shop, Winding Shop, etc are the spaces I like to see. Spaces that showed trade skills, the people behind the curtain.
As a machinist i feel like little boy into a toy store watching this vidéo !!!!
Mechanical Engineer here, and def. not professionally working in a workshop myself... but same.
Same.
Need more time examining the equipment on camera, preferably by a knowledgeable machinist.
Does the museum hire machinists? If so, would they be able to run any of the equipment? It's been a long time since I've run a manual machine, but this would be a really interesting job, even if the parts being made are simple.
Same here. I love the old iron. My oldest lathe is a 1933.
@@throngcleaver got you beat New York wire had a lathe that was built in 1917.. k & t machine in Ashland Virginia had one that was built in 1918, and I cut threads on it 10 years ago.. it cut them perfectly....
I was really hoping to see an old Monarch EE lathe here!! If I have my history correct, this lathe was developed for use onboard a navy ship. I’ve used numerous lathes thru my work-life, the Monarch is my, hands down, favorite!
My wife's grandfather was a Chief Metalsmith aboard the USS Colorado in WW2 and later recalled for the Korean War on the USS Iowa. He loved the work and was very proud of what they could do at sea.
I actually walked this magnificent ship through the Gatun lock , Panama Canal. On my 21st birthday. My Right hand on Her Port side........ USS Fort Snelling LSD 30 EM2c. May 27,1968
Happy belated 21st birthday Jack!
Ryan - You are doing a wonderful job, and I really appreciate learning about this remarkable ship which was built before I was born. The men took her into battle must have been very special. It makes me realize how easy my life has been.
Some lovely machine tools, no DRO’s in sight😄. I did my apprenticeship as a Toolmaker. Remember the first day having to learn imperial measurements as a lot of the machines were so old. We were only taught the metric system in school. Hated the old stuff to start with then grew to love the quality. They definitely don’t make them like they used to. Hi from 🇬🇧.
There is a DRO on the Nardini or similar lathe. One passes the headstock on their right when entering the "office" area
WOW... If those machines could talk.. I could sit for a life time and still not have enough time here every story.. Really amazing... Thank you.
It’s amazing how those machinist we’re able to work using the lathes, milling machines etc. while the ship was rolling from side to side and moving up and down while steaming through heavy seas.
Excellent video! I love these in depth tours!
20 seconds in:
"We're at Frame 134 if you're following along in your booklet of general plans at home."
Well, yeah, who isn't?
Nice tour, though. I imagine crew that worked on this vessel and others like it enjoy seeing it again and showing family where they used to work.
Hi Ryan,
I was Turret 2 Officer from 81 to 84. Would like to correspond with you on video you did on 16 inch regunning. We did replace the center gun of turret 2 in 1984. Quite a process.
Really enjoy your videos.
You can email education@battleshipnewjersey.org if you'd like.
My grandfather worked at the Bethlehem steel shipyard at Sparrow's Point in Maryland. In the 1970s, they were dismantling a navy ship, not sure what class, and they found a machine shop that didn't have a door. it had been sealed airtight since 1943. All the machine tools inside were in pristine condition.
I bet that would have been fascinating to see - a life size time capsule!
I hope they preserved those machines!
Old myth, it's been told about a bunch of ships.
Wow oh wow. If not a "myth" What a find!
Like Christmas to a budding machinist.
What happened to them ?
@@SealofPerfection I believe my grandfather. If you don't, that's your own problem.
I really never appreciated the Navy until I witnessed this very Battleship fire in Beirut. Later in Combat Operations I would come to love the A-10, but there is nothing that compares to hand of God that a Battleship brings. Thank you to all those who served on her. Thank you for all your work keeping her alive.
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Me: "Did you see Ryan's latest video on the Battleship New Jersey?"
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@@BattleshipNewJersey Massive guns, massive armor- this is the way.
@@BattleshipNewJersey Yes, BOTH! Excellent!
Real versus imaginary. I’ll take REAL
My girlfriend: "Did you see the latest episode of The Mandalorian?"
Me: "Did you see Ryan's latest video on the Battleship New Jersey?"
What is now the machine shop office had a tool and cutter grinder and two pantographs for engraving. I see they are gone. That tool and cutter grinder got used a lot. In the heavy side of the machine shop I see the electroplating sink has been removed. That was installed in 1985. In the lathe side (before you go into the office) that Standard Modern 16" lathe was installed in 1986, right before the 86 WesPac. Most of the original equipment actually had WW2 War Department brass tags attached. All of the equipment in that shop was fully functional and used a lot. A shout out to MR2 Scott Miller who found the worm shaft and leather belt to get the Vertical Turret Lathe (VTL) running. Yes the VTL is belt driven. Made by Bullard.
It's absolutely amazing we were able to turn out these engineering marvels one after the other as they were needed for the war effort. The man hours it took to build this floating city must be astounding. They're so complex too.
Was a Tool and Die machinist years ago and miss the work.
Hi Ryan,
Great video. I was an MR2 aboard 2 tenders from 87-92. First onboard USS Orion AS-18
stationed in La Maddalena, Sardinia (Italy)
and onboard USS Cape Cod AD-43 out of San Diego. R2-31A was our shop designation. Also worked in Nuclear repair on fast attack and SSBN’s. I loved serving and I miss it very much. Can’t wait for the museum to open up again so I can enjoy it in person. Thanks for making these videos. It’s obvious that you have a passion for history and I enjoy how you explain various parts of the ship. Keep up the great work.
MR2 Peter A. Loverci
Milford, CT
By the way, were open on weekends right now! We highly recommend checking our website before planning a visit though because, you know, things change fast this year.
@@peterloverci1002 I was onboard USS Cape Cod from 1982 to 1984. Made the 83 WesPac.
Finally the video/audio is watchable that said highly impressed with the state of cleanliness of the spaces
Wonderful video, love that machinery......
At least a couple of the lathes in the second to last room look to be mid eighties era .
Or if they are original then they where upgraded
Some of those are very much so eighties machines. The WW2 era iron can be seen with it's solid castings and curved lines. The eighties machines were encased in sheet metal.
@@AndrewTubbiolo thatt was what i thought
The Standard Modern lathe (SM) is definitely 80s or 90s. I wonder how they got it in.
@@micahatticus4257 I would imagine vertically down wider portals then horizontal. It's not like it's an American Pacemaker. I don't think the fit would be too tight.
@@AndrewTubbiolo Yes that seems to be a good way to do that and maybe with the Headstock removed also.
I was an MR for 22 years. Was on the John F. Kennedy (cva-67) 72-74, destroyer tender and 3 sub tenders in Charleston SC. Been to A and C schools in San Diego. I loved these old machines, not these new fangled ones where the "machinest" just sits there and watches it. Retired in 94 as an E-8. Now I understand the MR rating doesn't exist anymore.
USS Orion AS-18?
@@davidzimmer2694 the Hunley, Holland and Canopus.
Thanks for the tour. Please make another one, with more detailed look at all machines in the shop 😊
I would love to visit New Jersey one day. I have always admired the US ww2 navy ships.
Best regards from Denmark.
Very interesting tour of your machine shop on board of th NEW JERSEY
Wonderful video, and so interesting to me because my dad was a machinist on the USS Forrestal (CV-59) and I am sure the machine shops there were similar, so I was very interested in your tour. I am glad I stumbled upon your channel, and plan on watching all your videos and hopefully visit your ship when all this Covid mess is over.
A few years ago I was interested in how much such a ship actually cost when it was built. It's hard to understand what some amount of money cost 80 years ago, but I remember finding out that this ship cost 1/1000 of the US GDP at the time she was built. Right now if a ship were to cost 1/1000 of the US GDP it would cost roughly 20 billion dollars.
US GDP has gotten a little better since then. it would cost about 2 billion to actually rebuild that ship.
That proportion shows the high percentage of defense spending that preparing for or being in a war costs- aside from the human tragedy and living hell that war ALSO is, because of political differences of opinions among nations.
Thanks for the Video. My father was a machinist during WWII,, I always wondered what his work-place looked like, I guess I have some idea now. He spent a LOT of time on the ships.
Great videos. Thanks for preserving history
Awesome to see old engine lathes, vertical turret lathes, vintage bridgeports, universal milling machines, DoAll surface grinders and plenty of other machines that were very similar to some of the vintage machines I learned to become a machinist on at College of the Redwoods in Eureka California. They had about 30 old vintage lathes and other machines from that era that had been purchased from the military and had all been crashed a thousand times by students such as my self. Those machines on board the Jersey would be worth a ton of money if you could get them out. They just don't build machines like that any more.
In about 1970 I was employed (Civil Service, not military) at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Pasadena, CA). One of my assignments was at the Morris Dam Test Facility in the San Gabriel mountains. That facility had a large machine shop with equipment dating from WWII. The machines were top of the line at the time they were originally purchased and were still in excellent condition when I worked there. I remember in particular a large vertical mill that had two-speed mechanically driven traverse on all three table axis. There was also a Shaper, which is a machine that has almost entirely disappeared from modern machine shops. There were other behemoth machines as well including a drill press with a rotary table and a huge throat depth. That facility had test bays open toward the lake that were used for testing of hazardous equipment and had heavy blast doors for access and used a system of mirrors to allow viewing into the chambers without direct exposure. Among the projects that I worked on was testing of sea water initiated thermal batteries that would power torpedoes and also internal combustion torpedo motors that had cylinders arranged in a ring with connecting rods pushing against a swash plate to rotate a shaft. The fuel contained both a hydrocarbon combustible and an oxidizer so that no external air supply was required and ignited the mixture by compression, like a Diesel cycle.
that armored deck with the crew men's names stamped on it was as awesome as Stanley's Cup. that is so cool.
...and did he say "...6 inch armoured... deck"? 6 inches in one thing ...but "armoured" is something else. "Armoured plate steel which is carbonised by heating the steel in the presence of carbon (usually charcoal) for long durations (often several weeks)". It appears the hardness alone is in the vicinity of 500BHN ....then there are the physical properties and toughness, etc. I wonder what the "outer" materials thicknesses are (hull and top deck)? apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1027340.pdf
What I would give to have those machines in my garage! I hope those museum workers who get to work in those areas appreciate all the history they're handling.
They normally do, is my exoerience.
It is one of the reasons that they are volounteers.
Excellent, sir. Thanks for posting this video. I learned a lot and enjoyed it, too.
Another vote for doing another video of just the machinery in the machine shop. Jeez, all that excellent, made in America machinery like lathes, etc look almost brand new. I'd love to own some of it!
Great vid, man! I live in the EU and want to vome visit the US next summer if covid agrees. Visiting one of those bad boys is a must for me. I'm watching those just to see which one is the worthiest to see. Right now, I think about Big J or Visconsin. Both are preatty cool, clean and have a lot of stuff to see.
Just saying, we have more open to the general public than Wisky does....
The company that I retired from had an old metal lathe and end mill that was bought surplus from the government in the late 50's early 60's thats what I learned on when going thru the apprenticeship program. They were well worn before I started using them bit really enjoyed the non cnc equipment.
Those spaces look spectacular! Probably never looked better Fine job!
That is a very beautiful machine shop. Absolutely love it!
When I apprenticed in 1974 I worked on a Lodge & Shipley lathe and a Bullard VTL just like the ones on the ship. Both had tags from 1943.
Thank you so much for your continuing videos, I really appreciate it!
Radial drill press. Gives 2 axis locational ability, and vastly improves accuracy. Also, not a turret lathe, but a vertical boring mill. Makes large-diameter pieces more machinable.
Our head machinist, who's used that machine since 1968, calls it a turret lathe.
I think he's referring to the large peice of equipment you called a 'Drill Press'.
Sorry, he mentioned both in his comment, hard to keep up!
My grandfather was a machinist on the Roosevelt aircraft carrier. (The diesel version that is now an artificial reef)
He loved to tell this story: One of my crewmates had to walk through the Marine's quarters to get to his station. The Marines were relentless and would write him up for every dress code infraction they could find. So one day, he went to his CO and complained. The CO replied: "You've been in the NAVY how long? Get yourself a repair ticket, go downstairs, and break something." So, the steam line to the Marine's pants press somehow spring a leak and they were sweating it. They assumed they knew who did it, they couldn't prove it, and they left him alone after that.
Great to discover your channel. Thx for the tour.
Would love to see more of the machine shop with a focus on the machines! Great vid!
I really enjoyed this part of your series
I was an FC (Firecontrolman) for 21 years and the MR's saved my ass a few times.
You've got a million or more in very old, but excellent machine shop equipment!
6:56 & 7:12 That's not just any drill press, that's a Radial Drill Press. A very versatile machine.
I caught that also. Still use one today. Fun machine to tap holes on
Move the drill itself, not just the work piece? Yeah, I can see where that would be useful.
Thanks so much guys, that's some damn nice equipment, glad you still use some of it, would be total shame for equipment like that to just sit idle, they don't make good machines like that anymore.
Keep it coming
Not made in China.
It's always cool to see machining equipment from way back then! Cue the cliche "they don't make 'em like they used to!" Lol. My dad has an old lathe from the late 60s or early 70s iirc. It's a bit newer than these, and it's for wood though. I'm going to send him this video!
As a machinist I approve this message.
I've machined 2 1.1 inch dummy projectiles for the staff at USS North Carolina to be used as teaching aids.
Love these ships.
The names and art are always the coolest thing for me, makes you wonder if any of them thought about who might see it after they left, or how long after we would still be able to appreciate it
One of those guys is in this comment thread!
Wow, very cool! Thank you for giving us the tour
I'm impressed that you committed some of the comment-suggestions to practice, like flashing the deck elevation diagram in the beginning and doing slow-mo's.
I've designed some fictional ships for an art project, and one of the things I contemplated was how to lay out a machine shop. This video was a windfall.
Is there a place where you place your renders?
Like our raw footage?
My father had a machine shop for many years, and I worked in it on-and-off when I was a kid. I ran all the machines, but my favorite was an old WW2 Kearney and Trecker knee mill with the vertical head, which came off a Navy ship. We used that thing daily for years, and when he died it was sold and is still operating today, doing accurate work. Thanks for the wonderful, informative videos. Preserving the history of these marvels is incredibly important.
@aristarchan1 if you watched close, there was a Kearney and Tracker horizontal mill with a vertical head in the machine shop.....Your dad probably had a horizontal mill with a vertical head also.....a very fine machine....
That Bridgeport was from the late 70's or early 80's had VS head on it.
Interesting, I thought it looked a little bit out of place, like it was way to small for the company it was keeping.
That do all surface grinder 🥺😍
7:15 - Vertical boring mill actually, sort of a lathe standing on end. Good for working short length, large diameter parts.
Yep. Not a "turret lathe."
Our machinist, who has been working in this shop since 1968 calls it a turret lathe.
Not even close to being a turrent lathe..
I'm surprised there isn't a small Tool Room Lathe with a turrent attachment.
Sometimes they are referred to as a VTL or vertical turret lathe.
The Starship Enterprise of 1941.
I was gonna ask where all that stock came from, amazing the navy didn't strip more stuff. That's alot of money for some of that chunky stock. And the tools. So much money.
They must have been put in the storage before the hull was closed up, no way can I see those long bars being moved through the corridors to the store room.
@@wonniewarrior some of those big machine tools like that big lathe must been done yet same.
On the Massachusetts, even after they stripped parts for the Iowa's, there are still whole cashes of spare parts. For example, there's a room full of brand new barrels for the 40mm Bofors that were just left there. I feel like our definition of expensive and the Navy's definition of expensive are quite different lol.
@@greentland many a junk man made little black powder cannons out of bofors barrels. They used to be common. I think .14 scrap sent all the best stuff to china. It sure cleaned out those french scrapyards full of ww2 tanks. Just imagine all those sherman and panzer parts gone. Made into whatever junk we buy at Wal Mart... Depressing comment over. I would love to see stuff like all the leftover parts on these old ships. Give you an idea what the navy thought a ship might need.
Your taxpayer dollars at work!
Yah don't think that SM lathe is anywhere near the vintage of the ship...
Nor the Bridgeport mill.
The Bridgeport might be, they were first sold in 1937. The SM definitely is new.
@@cmdrbigbob Not with a variable speed control on the head.
@@paschaldobbins8430 good catch, I missed that. Anyway the document they posted says it was put in during 80s refit which makes sense.
Everything in that machine shop was made in America.
Not everything. There is a Standard Modern lathe that was probably installed during the ships last overhaul and modernization in the 1980s. Standard Modern lathes are made in Canada.
Like the little brand new Jet horizontal band saw? - And as far as all machinery going back to WWII that lathe with the square headstock SM Lathe wasn't even thought of 'till Vietnam. And the way he just walked past the newer Bridgport with even a word. (Is there a more essential machine tool ?) That DoALL surface grinder is not that old and he didn't mention the Horizontal mill or the boring mill either, but he sure is obsessed with chain falls and the mono rail
One more thing. - If the stock rooms are not habitable while under way what good are they if you have to shut the boilers down if you need a piece of 1-1/4 1045 cold finish ????? Something is not right here. - He defiantly needed an actual machinist mate with him .
@@mathewmolk2089 That Do All Surface grinder dates to the 1960's and was probably installed during her Vietnam War reactivation. The Canadian SM 20/60 Lathe dates from the mid 80's and was most likely installed during the 88/89 refit.
@@mathewmolk2089 I think by habitable he means it's hot as balls in there and nobody is going to be occupying that space for long. Not so hot that you can't walk in for a few minutes and grab some bar stock, but hot enough that you're not going to be in there for hours at a time welding or winding motors without dying of heat stroke. Imagine walking in a sauna at its hottest setting to grab the phone you forgot inside, compared to staying in that sauna all day long operating a drill press.
@@ssmt2 Canada is still in America... just not the United States of America
It looks like the yellow rails go through doors that might need to be closed quickly for fire or other reasons. I assume those sections of rail can be removed? Would they be stowed normally and only installed when needed to move equipment?
Exactly. We keep them in place all the time because they're hard to move but they would only install them when they were needed.
@@BattleshipNewJersey thanks for the quick reply. Just discovered your channel a few days ago. Catching up on all your great videos over here in Monmouth County, NJ
@@BattleshipNewJersey any chance you could share photos showing one rail in the stowed position and one in the installed position, or a short video of the basic process?? Were they mounted on pivots and secondary rails or did the crew have to dead lift them into place?? Thanks
They were mounted on a rack on the wall and then lifted into place. We tried to do it once but its a multi person job.
The Bridgeport was completely ignored
I thought that was a Bridgeport
because they're a dime a dozen?
@@schwig44 Depends on the condition, they are starting to go up in value.
@@phillhuddleston9445 doesn't really matter when you look at the items in aggregate, they made a zillion bridgeport mills, that's why people who want a valuable one are left looking for specific variants, because the C head is extremely common. Just because it's old and survived and is in pristine shape, doesn't mean it's special. Being those things while being one of 15 on the planet means it's special. being those things while being one out of 50 thousand (conservative estimate), just means you sold well and they made a lot of you, and you happened to be sold to someone who cared enough to maintain you
That was just plane out cool. Thanks 😎👍
That machine shop is fantastic. I work in a shop that rebuilds industrial gearboxes. Lots of modern CNC equipment but still a number of machines the age of this stuff.
I currently work in a shop that has 20 ft 16 foot and 12 foot vertical boring Mills and an 8 foot bulliard.. these machines made parts for battleships in world war II.. in the seventies and eighties the machinist who ran them made reactor components for the nimitz-class carriers..actually the entire reactor vessel and reactor head, along with many of the valves..today we are making missile tubes for the next generation Columbia class Boomer..and pay load tubes for the Virginia class attack submarines.. along with various other stuff for the Navy.. we also have an old Lodge & Shipley lathe looks pretty close to the one that's on that ship..
I think that working in metal shop on the ship is wery exciting 👍. I am working in metal factori for 33 years, and for 20 years I'm working on the vertical cnc lathe machine, programming it , set tools and other things which are necessary for production and in the actual work on the machine. We produce workpices which weight is few tons. 8:15
It is amazing to me how clean, tidy and well organized the Navy left the engineering and shop spaces. It's as if the Navy personnel had just gone off watch and the space was awaiting the next watch to arrive.
It certainly helps that we use these spaces so we keep them in a condition that we can function in. Or stage the space as the crew would have had it, in the case of the engine room or another space that is purely for show now.
How many lathes does a battleship need? Well, how many can we fit?
Hey Chief, we have some extra empty space over here, what do you want to put in it?
Lathes, lots and lots of lathes.
Well, when you need to get repairs done, you need them done RIGHT NOW, dammit!
@@BlackEpyon Well, you are either being shot at or being hunted or you are practicing for those two, so now would be much better than later
Ignoring the vertical mill, the surface grinder, openside planer, large power hacksaw and horizontal mill that all played a role in making parts to keep the ship running. A crucial part of the ship that deserves better treatment.
Yep - looks like some of the machine tools were added long after WWII.
Although not at sea, where I did my apprenticeship, we had a vertical lathe with a tag that said, property of the us war department, yours might be a little smaller, but it has made me wonder what its history was....
Got a really good look at the storage areas though..
I wouldn't be too hard on Ryan for that. I don't believe that he knew the names for the various types of machinery that you mentioned. So rather than stand at the operators stations and say "big machine #1 that I don't know the name of, big machine #2, big machine #3" I think Ryan just kinda moved along. No fault of his, unless you spent time in a machine shop as an apprentice I doubt anyone would know.
We need Abom to get a special tour of the machine shop spaces and film everything.
Every machine should have a tag giving all info on year made, company etc. Would be great if you could link some of the machine shop equipment tags to this video. We’ll find the year etc for you!
We've got most of that information available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1TgcmBdiaOA5HWCd2J6WnNba9qjxMcivAGImwUW-waro/edit?usp=drivesdk
Keep in mind, this was written for a tour guide to give a brief tour of the space.
The nice thing about the hot exhaust is that the spare stock metal would be dry, and not corrode.
Products of combustion are some of the most corrosive fumes I can name you.
@@mathewmolk2089 The exhaust doesn't leak into the room. If it did then the CO or CO2 would be a major problem long before the metal corroded
Fascinating!
That's funny a lot of people today have no concept in just fixing the broken component they live in a world of through the whole thing out buy new. Don't have a clue that a $5 part is all that's wrong in a $5,000 whatever sad really.
Just found this, and uh... I kinda want your machine shops. Of course, battleships would have them but those are some serious tools. If you don't actively use a lot of them, getting some manuals for those tools then hosting classes to teach machining would be an excellent revenue generator. You could even rent/lease the shop out to a company that could do such. Certainly would be a hassle, but that shop is a serious resource.
Just as major pieces of engineering break down into components, so the machine tools can be broken down to fit through the hatches.
Agree
Heavy sons of bitches to lug about though.
Can someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the Standard Modern 2060 lathe at 11:09 was installed after the ship was built since it has a variable-speed motor as opposed to the older lathes that would have a single-speed motor and a gear box that had manual levers to change the turning speeds, such as the one in the background. I also noticed there was a milling machine too, instead of a shaper/slotting machine. I learned the lathe on a Navy surplus Reed-Prentice- date of manufacture was in the early 1940's. The USS North Carolina has a pretty awesome machine shop too, but their slotting machine has been removed.
Good afternoon, My fathers name is carved in the armored deck in the office. MRC Harris
He was the inspiration for me joining the Navy although I went a different route and went aviation and spent 12 years working on F-14’s
Check this out photos.app.goo.gl/EDBpK2hubkFtKagb7
@@BattleshipNewJersey Thank you for that. I really appreciate it.
The machine tools with the nice rounded castings look like WWII era machines. The lathe in the second shop SM (Summit Machine?) looks much newer. Square and light by comparison.
I was thinking the same thing.
Standard Modern Lathe made in Ontario.
Mark Parnell: Yes, Standard Modern! Thank you. It’s still a very nice lathe but not as classy as it’s predecessors.
There should be letter stamped information plates on each machine somewhere with serial numbers and manufacture date.
The video description has a link to a document with more photos and machine details. Mind you, that doc was written for tour guides to have a basic minimum info.
Counting the vertical turret lathe, I counted no less than 6 lathes on that ship. That's a lot of turning going on.
Bru Star we turned a lot of pump shafts and valve stems. Making a valve stem is tedious because you are cutting Acme threads. We churned out tons of impeller rings too. Pumps of all types were always in that shop for overhaul. Electric motors too. The electricians had a guy named EM1 Rich Baird. He was a rewind genius. Never saw a motor on there he couldn't rewind. Great guy to work with too. He taught me a ton about motors.
I'm a machinist myself. I'm absolutely amazed at the size of the shop as well as the amount of different work they must have done there! 👍👍 Is that on the tour by chance??
Yes, the machine shop is part of the regular tour.
The metal shop in my highschool was equipped mostly from machines that came out of ships in the Philly naval yard. I was always amazed at how big the equipment was and it was all built in place and cut out when they sold it. I still remember the pictures he had from buying it all. But as things go they got rid of the metal shop after Mr Search retired in the early 2000's. It's truly a shame that they pushed him out because I can name at least 20 people who most likely wouldn't have been productive members of society if it wasn't for Greg Search myself included.
I still ended up not graduating from my hs. But thanks to him I joined the Navy and still managed to become a naval aviator by taking the hard knocks route. Granted I had to work 3times as hard but I still managed.
At san jose state univ. we had lots of ex navy ww11 era machines in the industrial tech machine shop class. good American made stuff, this was back in the1980s
MR's .....unsung heroes of the entire Navy.
MR2 Fleming here I did not serve on the New Jersey but I have spent a lot of time doing repair work as a Machinery Repairman in the Navy. Made lots of electric motor and pump shafts, repaired, straightened, fixed what ever it took to get back on line. MR is a GREAT Rate and directly transferable to Civilian work which I did (and still working at age 71 as a Machinist) for the last 30 year. Yes I would have liked to have see more details of the "real machine shop" with someone who knew there way around the shop. Seeing this kind of made me "homesick" for those Navy days I can still smell that shipboard smell. My son is currently First Class in the Navy stationed in Japan.
The larger SM lathe on the right looks much newer than WWII.
This might be the coolest tour I've been on. Definitely the beat TH-cam tour hands down! I'd have never gotten to see this orherwise...
Thank you so much!!!
An excellent video!
The "smaller" lathe with the markings "SM" is a Standard Modern brand lathe and is Canadian made (Toronto, Ontario). They are still in business, and to the best of my knowledge are the ONLY manufacturer of new manual (ie: non-CNC) metal turning lathes in North America. Given so many high schools don't have machine shops anymore, most of their production goes into US navy ships and submarines! Given the general shape of that lathe, I suspect it was in fact made at the earliest, in the 1970's, so it must have been dismantled to get down into the machine shop. Home shop machinists do that all the time getting ex-industrial machine tools into house basements! I have one of their older machines (1960's) and it has quite a different appearance. Hope that may be of some interest..
Thank you. I noticed that a couple of them looked to be much newer design.
My dad served on the New Jersey in the 80's
Has he been on board since it became a museum?
@@BattleshipNewJersey Unfortunately no, his last time on board would have been 1990. That was a fun day hanging out on the deck of that ship. Still have his cruise books from BB62 on my coffee table.
Please set your exposure to manual, the flickering is difficult to watch. Great information though.
Love the mustard-colored 70s-era fridge!
Harvest Gold.
I would say if you have to bring down some mayor components the best advisor would be a company specialized for mining equipment. They should be able to figure out a way to disassemble, bring it through the hatches and reassemble it again
Having worked a decade in a shipyard, I've never seen a machine shop so clean! That's some great equipment in there. Would love to have that shop!
I've been watching your videos for a couple weeks now and every one makes me want to head downtown and crawl all over our museum ships whenever covid allows it. I'd love to see if I could see some of the details like the chainfall locations or see if I could find and figure out their own secrets. :)
I just found and watched your video outstanding. I enlisted Oct 1970 as a Machinery Repairman and served on seven ships; retired June 1992
I was hoping you'd actually do a slow pan of each of the machines, not just jump over them.....
Sorry about that, you'll have to come out and see it in person to get the full experience!
@@BattleshipNewJersey if this Covid thing ever goes away....
We're open on weekends! But also, yeah, hopefully next year. Fortunately, the machines aren't going anywhere.
In the meantime, this document has additional photos and details of some machines, it was written for a tour guides to give a brief tour in here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1TgcmBdiaOA5HWCd2J6WnNba9qjxMcivAGImwUW-waro/edit?usp=drivesdk
@@BattleshipNewJersey Thank You! and thanks for the videos in general.
I have a small 24" Bullard that I bought out of Attica prison in NY. The navy gave it to them years ago. I guess it was in a ship yard at some point.
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If the navy left the stock in place, do you think any is from before the end of ww2? I ask because some of that metal may have been made before the first A-bombs were dropped, in which case it will contain less radioactive isotopes and could be useful for certain sensitive equipment!
Thank you for showing me this. I never thought it would be that crazy.