Shop Tour 16: USS Iowa Machine Shop
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- Shop Tour 16: USS Iowa Machine Shop
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Thanks for the fun tour, I had never thought about the machine shop on a battleship, but of course, it was a critical component of keeping the ship in service. Many thanks to our veterans who sailed and serviced this great vessel. 🎉😊
At the time of the ships original commissioning all of the ships boats were made of wood so a wood shop was very useful in maintaining them.
Great tour, thanks for inviting us along.
came here to say the same thing. I wonder if any of those are still around.
Hi Keith,
Thanks for the tour. I was stationed aboard the USNS Harkness in 1971-72, which in addition to the usual equipment, carried four Hydrographic Survey Launches, made of fiberglass and wood. Our machine shop was about half the size of the Iowa's. Our ship was a lot more 'lively' than a WWII battleship, so work had to be planned taking into account the sea state.
We added A/C to one of our boats for the computers so we needed a jack shaft to run the compressor. We took the boat to the Naval Station, Annapolis (across the Severn from the USNA) and they had a machine shop that just about filled an aircraft hanger. I think they had every tool possible in that building!
Took them about thirty minutes to fabricate and install our shaft, two pulleys and the pillow block bearings needed to support it. Not only were they good, they were also fast. I think they enjoyed working on something besides sailboats and yard patrol craft for a change.
Thanks again for the memories!
I worked in that shop 89-90 . I was on the last de-com crew. Made a lot of pump shafts on those lathes!! Those machinist mates could do some damage with those adjustable hammers. You’re right with the emblems on the cabinet doors. We were machine repairman. This brings back a lot of good memories. You learn to run the machine underway and learn to lean with the ship as it rocked and rolled. It became second nature after doing it for a while. I was one of the guys that put all of the cosmaline on and in those machines.
Nice tour! Funny that it's a bit cluttered, it''s a real shop! I'd love to see a tour of a repair ship, with a foundry. that's wild.
It’s not SHIP SHAPE. The chief would be on your ass until it was spotless
I was lucky enough to get a quick walk through of the machine shop and sheet metal shop on USS Iowa back in March of 2017. I took pictures of as much as I could and made them into a short video slideshow, which can be found on my youtube channel. One of my favorite parts of the shop is the table with the names and addresses of the sailors who worked in that division during those special occasions. It's great to see you taking the machine shop tour on Iowa... because when I was walking through there, I thought to myself, "Keith Rucker would love to see all of these great old machines". Nice video, thanks for sharing. 🙂
Thank you both. It was wonderful to see all of this. God bless all of our military service people.
Very limited experience working in a shop, but always wanted to see the machine shop on a capital ship. It is amazing the things those guys pulled off back in the day. Thank you.
A bias. My Dad served aboard LST-654 in the South Pacific during WWII. The stories he told . . . and didn't.
I took an abbreviated tour of the machine shop in, I believe 2019. It was not scheduled, but the group I was with, a number of editors of motorcycle magazines, were especially interested and the tour guide got special permission for adding the machine shop to the tour. Loved this as we didn’t get nearly the in depth explanation that you were able to get.
amazing that the tooling and small stuff didn't disappear to other ships or shipyards that needed it.
Thank you, Keith, I enjoyed this video very much.
I live in Los Angeles, and have done several tours on the Iowa. There's so much to see, just one is not nearly enough. Having such a thorough tour of the machine shop with such a knowledgeable guide as Mike was a real treat.
Keith,
The shops are long and narrow, so placement of the machines seems dictated by the "shoe horn" effect. Ship's machinery is oriented with their axis fore and aft. By aligning the axis fore and aft it reduces bearing loads from ship movement. One of the best layout people I've known rearranged our machine shop to assure the axis were optimal.
I've been on the Iowa, New Jersey, and the Missouri and I never noticed that the shop machinery was welded directly to the deck. The 6" deck makes for a very solid foundation.
Shop machinery foundations consist of a frame construction matches the below deck structure, along with pads that match the machine's foundation. There will be structure on the underside of deck to support the machine. Temporary jacking screws are used alignment. Shims will be used for final alignment. Once aligned the machine will be bolted and a taper pin will be fitted. The bolts will have some sort of locking system for security.
Bob
LOL, SO while Clark Easterling is LOST onboard, you're doing a show.?.?. 2:34 SO COOL YOU GUYS are aboard.
If I ever come to the USA, I definitely have to take the engineering tour.
Greetings from Bavaria.
Great tour Keith. As a retired Naval Shipyard employee I have been in numerous ships shop spaces over the decades.
Hi Keith, What a great tour of a space that helps giving us the freedom we all enjoy to this very day. AS a retired Marine Enginere visits like this take me back to the days I serviced our ships up here in the land of the Canuck, Sure takes me back to the good old days of my youth.
The camera operator or operators did a fabulous job! I'm an old Vietnam-era Gunner's mate that got my tool & maker's papers in '72. I've been on one real Battleship (North Carolina) tour before and your tour was very good because it was done in the machinist's interest not in a general way. Although the gun turrets were very interesting. I was aboard the New Jersey (no tour) visiting a buddy just before they left for Nam in '68. I was just mustering out, My ship left with her on their way. Very interesting tour very good guide.
Excellent..i had the honor to be friends with WW2 era machinist who made gun barrels for battleships and could make almost anything on mills and lathes…..kinda like Keith and you guys.
I've toured the Iowa with some of my shipmates about 7-8 years ago. We were all Boiler Techs. Had a chance to stop into one of the boiler rooms. We also saw the bunks where those accused of the gun mishap signed their names.
I have also visited the USS Missouri when it was still active during the gulf war.
Our ship (USS Benjamin Stoddert), had the opportunity to witness a full broadside of the USS New Jersey during a RIMPAC exercise.
Good times 😊
Thank You Keith for sharing this fantastic video with us. Awesomeness Extreme!
“I can’t believe the ship wasn’t built in Iowa!”
A lot of ships are built in Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine.
@@ellieprice363 the built in Iowa was a joke from Clarke Easterling's WHF video :)
What a fabulous shop! I can just imagine Keith trying to stuff all those machines in his pockets. It is great that most of the machines are operable and USED. I do have to note the scraping marks still visible on many machines. Keith, you are a bad influence on me. lol
Nice tour. Glad most of that stuff has survived.
Yes thanks for the tour. yours and Clarks are very fun to watch. going to watch again
A great tour of the machine shop. Thank you for sharing. I was able to take a short upper deck tour soon after she was opened to the public. I would love to be able to return again to do the below deck tour. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
What a great tour Keith! Thanks for the VIP service Mike!
Another living history tour. Thank you, Keith,.
Mike is a good rep for the USS Iowa. Thank you for the tour.
Great tour, thanks, Keith.
Great tour, I like you got excited when the tour quide opened the drawer with all them convoluted bits for machining differant gear work
Shapers on repair ships and capital ships were usually referred to by the machinist mates as "jumping jacks."
Hi Keith great tour thank you for the information on the Iowa. I remember many years ago that a friend amd I visited the Iowa in approxiamatly early eighties when she visited Portsmouth here in the UK. My friend was a veteran who served in the D Day landings and was fascinated by the ship and for comparison to our battleships of the time. Thanks again.
Excellent video. I love the shop tours of unusual shops. Years ago I took the Midway tour...and kept getting left behind. So much to see if you take it slow...and nobody is in your way when your the last one out of the space. Smile. Hopefully I can add the Iowa Engineering Tour to the list.
Years ago I got my degree from the University of Missouri. They had a craft studio for students to use, including a full woodshop. The legend was that their table saw was from the USS Missouri (sister ship to the Iowa), but no one really believed it. However, it was an Oliver 270! Maybe it was true!
I watched Clarke's video last night and now yours. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thank you.
I enjoyed seeing the shop.
Thanks very much for that! Nicely done; good interplay between you and Mike.
Happy Monday Georgia! 😊
A friend who works for Metro North at Grand Central Station in NYC. Gave me a tour of the machine shop in the lower exclusive areas of the station. In it was the same lodge and Shipley lathe as on the Iowa. They said it was on a sub but I said it probably a battleship that was scraped in the late 50s or early 60s,as USS Washington, Indiana, South Dakota was. Great video Keith Thanks, Jim.
I worked as a Marine Engineer in the UK Merchant Navy for the first 15 years of my working life. I would have given my eye teeth for a workshop like that. We'd have a lathe, pillar drill and pedestal grinder and that would be it. On one ship, everything was driven by a line shaft and flat belts, if the drill was in use and you tried to use the grinder, everything just stopped going roundl For the first 4 years, they wouldn't even supply gas or arc welding equipment.
What a great educational tour. My wife and I toured the USS North Carolina in Wilmington harbor several years ago but didn’t see the machine shop. The ships are probably similar so this tour will serve as a completion of that one.
Great tour Keith, thank you🙏
Just imagine the noise, hustle and bustle going on in there during a cruse. Some stories from the rates would be great!
Great tour!! A couple of years ago I toured the Battleship New Jersey. The machine shop of course was my favorite part of the tour.
"Away All Boats" is the only movie I know of that shows a machine shop.
Very interesting bud. Could see you was in your element looking around the shop. Like others i didn’t think off repair shop. Never to old to learn. Thanks for doing this 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻
Thank You Keith and Mike, for bringing us along. Very impressive shop. Time to make an effort to visit this on and the whole ship. I've seen the shop on the Midway it's not as big but very nice as well. Sure looks like you had a great time. 👍👍
Yes that is a walk down memory lane for me, and some of it is not a memory, but present day. I was MR2 (Machinery Repairman) 1986-1991 Charleston S.C. SIMA and Bremerton Wa.
I have worked on almost everything he show in the video, by that I mean the same vintage equipment, Kerney Trecker mill, Lodge & Shipley lathe, the big drill presses, sheet metal shear and brakes etc.etc. All really first class machines, if taken care of will be around for another 100+ years.
Until about a year ago we had one of the Sidney lathes here in my shop at the University of Arkansas, It was built in 1943. We needed the space (for a Haas CNC mill) and transferred the lathe to the Civil Engineer dept shop where it is used currently.
I have a 1942 vintage, round column Bridgeport mill in the shop that we converted to CNC use and I use it almost every day. It can still be used as a manual mill as well, but with the ball screws it is not quite as desirable as a manual mill.
The Navy machine shops be it land based or tender/battleship are quite a wonder land. In many ways I miss it, though I have been really blessed to be able to continue doing what I truly love, that is (still using some of the same equipment) repairing and making things and teaching young people how to do that as well.
Those Stanley Vidmar cabinets were all the rage in the USAF back in the early 80’s. No idea how long they’ve been around.
I got stuck in Hawaii for two days transiting to a job assignment. I convinced the customer engineer I was traveling with to go visit the USS Missouri. Unfortunately we missed the engineering tour for that day and only got to do the self guided tour. The machine shop there was set up to look at and not go into. Big disappointment. This episode filled in many blanks. Nice job. 😊
Thanks for video Keith. Nice tour looks like a great trip.
Imagine trying to work in that shop pitching and rolling in 40 or 50 foot seas
I was on an MSC UNREP ship and had the privilege of refueling Iowa in mid-Atlantic after the 80's refit. Beautiful ship.
History and machinery .. What more could you ask!
So much history.Good video keith , thank you
Did this take place before, during or after Clark was out wandering around the ship "looking for the steering wheel" 😂
We have the baby Bullard VTL, its *only* a 24" one, 1925 model. We don't use it real often, but its really handy when you need it. mostly we use it to repair large gears, turn off the teeth and shrink on a new tire before we recut the teeth.
Great tour and Mike is a very impressive representative for the ship.
Saw the machine shop on the USS Lexington in Corpus Christi around 12 years ago on a Scout overnight. They have a program for Scouting which is way better than the typical tour.
Fantastic tour ....Thanks!
Thanks for sharing enjoyed Hope you enjoyed the summer bash. Enjoyed Clarks video
Nice tour; great shop!
Thanks for the tour!
Hey Keith 👋
Great video!
It's mind blowing thinking of the expensive to not only build that battleship but equip it with all the equipment and tooling. Could you imagine the cost of all the machine shop equipment and the tooling to support them in 2024 dollars?!
Thx for sharing.
Thank you Keith!
excellant tour. thanks for the tour.
That was awesome! Thank you!
Great video! Many similarities to a bunch of shops I've been too. My present company has a Bullard and we use it sporadically.
Thanks for the tour. Very informative.
Thank you for sharing. 👍
Fascinating tour. Thanks for sharing
Love that Sidney Lathe. I have one almost restored
Man, what an interesting shop! Seems to me this shop would be great for offering classes to people, to teach how to use these tools to make things. I know the tools are old school, but if you can inspire people to create things it might lead to using newer tools so that maybe more manufacturing can be brought back here to the USA. Or at least pass on the knowledge of how these tools operate to younger people!
Great video! Thanks Keith.
Deck above 1.5”, deck they’re standing on 6”. So the Machinists were expendable 😳
Safer there than in the turret
The Iowas were built to an "all or nothing" design. *Everything* was expendable (ie outside the armour) apart from the turrets, barbettes, magazines and machinery spaces.
...I'M PRETTY SURE THAT THE THE MACHINE SHOP WAS UNOCCUPIED DURING COMBAT...!!!
Great tour! 👍
Thanks for the video, really enjoyed it.
Thanks Keith
The machine shop on the New Jersey is almost identical including the Bridgeport mill, which still looks new.
So cool thank you for sharing
Very interesting...thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! Cool history.
Good job
brilliant video keith
Very Cool! Great video. Thanks.
Always something interesting thanks
Any horizontal surface is fated to become a bench and covered with stuff.
...except, on a ship- EVERYTHING has to be SECURED...
@@daleburrell6273 Yes, on active ships.
My countertops and tables SHOULD be empty and clean, but often aren't.
@@patmcbride9853...if you say so...
Great video !
Hat a video i loved all that machinery so cool what a eye opener
Very cool! 🎉
Wow, nice. I didn’t know that existed in California. And I live here.
Very interesting thank you. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Nice shop.
There is a WWII submarine in Cleveland, USS Cod, that I have toured and seen the shop on. Very limited space.
I have a DAKE 75 ton press that came off a ship that i still use all the time Its air over hyd on a scale from 1-10. Its a 10 probly the best you can get
nice i watched the new jersey video on there shop pretty cool.
Very cool
cool stuff
they used the human computer the brain ! in making this ship cool !!!!!
Mr Rucker who was the camera person in the video?
cool video Mr Rucker !
Aww... he didn't mention the one thing most others never have to think about. A 5 inch gun ammunition hoist going through the middle of your shop.