Thursday, April 2, 2026

Chisels and Chipping

Shop Theory, Henry Ford Trade School, McGraw Hill, 1943

 
Oh yeah, this will definitely be on the test.

5 comments:

  1. let's start wearing bow ties all day long no matter what we are doing.
    alright then I'll start first and the rest of you can join after a few of us get it going.

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    1. I'm in. That isn't even one of the suggested points to consider in your 100 word essay.

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  2. Might be a regular tie tucked behind his apron...that was the look among machinists back then (for obvious safety reasons plus they probably owned only one tie). The cap (I won't call it a yarmulke) almost looks drawn-on to me. Back in my early days as a plant engineer we unbuttoned the third button down of our dress shirts and tucked in our tie, I guess to differentiate us from the other office drones who never went out into the plant. That was the only fashion statement I think I ever made.

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  3. I found a reprint on Internet Archive and it looks like a pretty decent and easy-reading book:

    https://archive.org/details/shoptheorybyhenryford/mode/2up

    Check out the size of the ezy-out this guy is using in fig. 103!:

    https://ia800204.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/15/items/shoptheorybyhenryford/Shop_Theory_by_Henry_Ford_jp2.zip&file=Shop_Theory_by_Henry_Ford_jp2/Shop_Theory_by_Henry_Ford_0024.jp2&id=shoptheorybyhenryford&scale=2&rotate=0

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