This is a close-up of the pantograph flame cutting table clamping system. This shows several hundred stacked sheets of sheet metal. The bellows clamp that held the sheets in place while they were cut with the flame torch are just above the stack.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 02:11 AM
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Bill often spoke about designing a pantograph style flame cutting table that could cut hundreds of stacked sheets of sheet metal using a unique clamping system that employed a set of bellows and air pressure. You can see a close up view of the clamping system in this post.
I was never sure if he actually come up with this design, or if it was something he copied from another application. In any case this image shows the machine in operation. I am not sure if it is Bill in the picture.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 01:11 AM
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Some sort of heat treating oven that I assume Bill had something to do with at Frost & Woods (?) during the second world war.
I don’t have much more information about this image. If anyone knows more, please post a comment.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 01:11 AM
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Some sort of heat treating oven that I assume Bill had something to do with at Frost & Woods (?) during the second world war.
I don’t have much more information about this image. If anyone knows more, please post a comment.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 01:11 AM
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Some sort of punch press that I assume Bill had something to do with at Frost & Woods (?) during the second world war.
I don’t have much more information about this image. If anyone knows more, please post a comment.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 01:11 AM
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I don’t know much about this image, other than that is Bill in the picture. I assume it was taken while Bill was working at Frost & Woods (?) during the second world war.
If anyone knows more, please post a comment.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-27-2005 | 01:11 AM
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This was a drilling jig that Bill designed while working at Frost & Woods (?) during the second world war. By this time he had risen to the rank of ‘engineer’, even though he was not really an engineer at all.
This particular piece of equipment provided a way of drilling out the holes for mounting the rims to a finished axle used on a gun carrier.
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-26-2005 | 07:11 PM
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What is most unusual about this image is that Bill was virtually illiterate when it came to reading blueprints, let alone creating them! So this photograph was certainly staged. Still, his inability to create or read technical drawings never stopped him from designing and building some of the most elaborate pieces of equipment!
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Posted by: Ron Warris | 11-26-2005 | 06:11 PM
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