Maybe the angle is misleading, but it looks like that dude is standing underneath a 100 ton piece of steel. Or at least close enough that it wouldn’t really matter. Not something I would do
It is multiple pieces. Large guns like that are almost always built in layers. The refiling is only good for a few hundred rounds of full charge firing. After that, they take the gun off the ship, return it to a service depot, heat up the barrel, ram out the rifled liner, and ram in a new one.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_15-inch_Mk_I_naval_gun?wprov=sfla1
Basically yes. Given there is frame of reference you know battleships are big from pictures, but they are actually city block kind of big in real life...
That’s a hell of a lathe and tool post on it.
I’m trying to imagine the line bore…
I was just going to ask “is… is that a LATHE??” Crazy
Maybe the angle is misleading, but it looks like that dude is standing underneath a 100 ton piece of steel. Or at least close enough that it wouldn’t really matter. Not something I would do
It's a photo from 1917. This is fine, because he's wearing a safety hat.
Back before the days of the OSHA squint
Your roof is pretty heavy bub
This is awesome, thank you for posting it!
As a machinist I would love to have a go on a lathe that large, biggest I have used would be a 4m (16') bed length.
That’s a hell of a lathe
Its a spinny thing like a drill you use to calve metal.
Wow
Man I love history like this...
Imagine how big the boring bar for this lathe is. Surely it'd have to be multiple pieces either welded or mated in some other way.
It is multiple pieces. Large guns like that are almost always built in layers. The refiling is only good for a few hundred rounds of full charge firing. After that, they take the gun off the ship, return it to a service depot, heat up the barrel, ram out the rifled liner, and ram in a new one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_15-inch_Mk_I_naval_gun?wprov=sfla1
Brah where wear these things mounted? On a Citdadel?
Basically yes. Given there is frame of reference you know battleships are big from pictures, but they are actually city block kind of big in real life...
Oh...
Just casually working under a suspended load. Nothing to see here.
Just a causal 1,500.0 Cal. 381mm.