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Ha I wasn't trying to seduce... the women could learn a thing or two here huh?

I was looking for a vid, can't find it. 10+ years back I saw on some show, they were cutting the propshafts for an aircraft carrier... showed this massive lathe taking what appeared to be about 3/4" or more cut. As in 3/4" DEEP. The chip coming off it was easily a hundred pounds per minute, just insane. Turned slow as hell, but just amazing to see. Century Turn makes a vertical lathe with either a 12 or 16 foot chuck. I couldn't find that on YT either...

What I would really love seeing, are the machines that make these machines. That kind of stuff is very elusive it seems...

And I just cracked a thousand posts