Interesting Industrial short Film showing machining operations with Nixie equiped controlers.

[Charles MacDonald]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPj4VMoFgs

The Nixes are just in a few scenes - but the machining is interesting
all by itself.

Short is called "Precision by the ton"
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[Terry Kennedy]

On Mar 29, 9:37 pm, Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote:
> The Nixes are just in a few scenes - but the machining is interesting
> all by itself.

Looking back at these old industrial films, I'm amazed at the casual
attitude toward safety in them. Of course, at the time this particular
film was made, OSHA was still 6 years in the future.

As an example, look at the video starting around 2:15 - the guy has
just mounted a giant rotor on a test machine and spins it up just a
few feet away from him. Then he walks over to it and looks at it...

[Charles MacDonald]

On 12-03-29 11:06 PM, Terry Kennedy wrote:

> As an example, look at the video starting around 2:15 - the guy has
> just mounted a giant rotor on a test machine and spins it up just a
> few feet away from him. Then he walks over to it and looks at it...
>

Worse, I can picture the Guy from the film unit standing there with a
Bolex or a filmo, about even with one of the vane units trying to get
that angle that shows the vanes on the main group spinning

Mind you even plate steel from a battle tank probably would not stop one
of those blades if it failed.

[Nick]

On Friday, 30 March 2012 04:06:43 UTC+1, Terry Kennedy wrote:

On Mar 29, 9:37 pm, Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote:
> The Nixes are just in a few scenes - but the machining is interesting
> all by itself.

Looking back at these old industrial films, I'm amazed at the casual
attitude toward safety in them.

At least they're not wearing ties and have short hair...

Nick 

[Terry S]

When I first started at my current company -- 23 years ago, we had two
CMMs that had nixie displays. Shortly thereafter they were replaced,
and the new units had LED displays.

Terry

On Mar 29, 8:37 pm, Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPj4VMoFgs
>
> The Nixes are just in a few scenes - but the machining is interesting
> all by itself.
>
> Short is called "Precision by the ton"
> --
> Charles MacDonald                 Stittsville Ontario

> cm...@zeusprune.ca              Just Beyond the Fringehttp://users.trytel.com/~cmacd/tubes.html

[kay486]

Does anybody know any contemporary documentaries about nixies specificaly? I would just love to see it.

[MichaelB]

WoW! The Nixie's are a little hard to see, but I found myself more
interested in the content. Amazing what we could do back then in the
'dark ages'! Heavy duty precision machining like that is really fun to
watch!

On Mar 29, 6:37 pm, Charles MacDonald <cm...@zeusprune.ca> wrote:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAPj4VMoFgs
>
> The Nixes are just in a few scenes - but the machining is interesting
> all by itself.
>
> Short is called "Precision by the ton"
> --
> Charles MacDonald                 Stittsville Ontario

> cm...@zeusprune.ca              Just Beyond the Fringehttp://users.trytel.com/~cmacd/tubes.html

[Gene Segal]

I was also really amazed by the complexity and precision of the machining process; gives the phrase "getting your rotors turned" a whole new meaning!

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