I was reading the old foxfire books, the one about how the old timers actually made those pretty little guns they liked so much. It struck me as odd how I never actually read about the government equivalent.
The book is just the tops, goes into steel making, lead quelching, equipment, spring tempering, fluxes, wood finishes, etc.
I'm wondering if anybody could shed some light on this topic- what about the factories?
How did the factories make their muskets and rifles? Any info on the machines, the tools, the mechanical processes, would be very welcome. Surely those one at a time kentucky ways weren't applicable to those big operations....? I mean- a couple thousand rifles a year for a factory versus two dozen for a shop? They must have been doing something different.
I was watching this old clip about the cotton gin and eli whitney's guns. I saw this big machine, looked like a lathe, spinning a stock and cutting on it. The machining and tool making bug has bit me and now the disease of curiosity has festered in my brain.
ps - I think most of us are patriotic in nature and try to buy US made stuff. SO I was carousing on the interweb and found this joint called Union Shirt Supply company. US made t-shirts from US-grown cotton for 6 to 7 bucks. Sounds like a heck of good deal to me! Just something to spike your spare time with later on down the road.
The book is just the tops, goes into steel making, lead quelching, equipment, spring tempering, fluxes, wood finishes, etc.
I'm wondering if anybody could shed some light on this topic- what about the factories?
How did the factories make their muskets and rifles? Any info on the machines, the tools, the mechanical processes, would be very welcome. Surely those one at a time kentucky ways weren't applicable to those big operations....? I mean- a couple thousand rifles a year for a factory versus two dozen for a shop? They must have been doing something different.
I was watching this old clip about the cotton gin and eli whitney's guns. I saw this big machine, looked like a lathe, spinning a stock and cutting on it. The machining and tool making bug has bit me and now the disease of curiosity has festered in my brain.
ps - I think most of us are patriotic in nature and try to buy US made stuff. SO I was carousing on the interweb and found this joint called Union Shirt Supply company. US made t-shirts from US-grown cotton for 6 to 7 bucks. Sounds like a heck of good deal to me! Just something to spike your spare time with later on down the road.