Here is a tip for some of you home machinists, or at least those of you with something like a machinist's tool chest with measuring tools and such (I'm sure Fran has a number of such watchers). Put a small piece of camphor block in your tool chest. Yes, you will smell it a little, but not much. What the camphor does is evaporate inside the chest and leave an incredibly thin film on all the surfaces of your measuring tools to prevent rust. It's an old machinist trick. And the little mirror you often see attached to the underside of the machinist tool chest lid, usually angled to be in a diamond orientation, isn't to check how clean your face is before you go home. It started being put there so you always had a mirror at the ready to help you remove something that got into your eye. (Safety glasses or goggles weren't always exactly standard fare long ago as even evidenced in a couple of places in this video.)
Excellent work. Thank you for bringing it back to life! My dad was a tool and die maker. I was in a high school apprenticeship program in the 80s where I had 8 week stints in manual machining, CNC machining, the gauge room and CAD drafting. I eventually chose to be a CAD jockey. It’s served me well for 40 years.
Well done, Fran. I don't have the patience to re-engineer soundtracks for films that trigger the copyright demons on UA-cam, nor do I have the talent to write original music. I'm glad you do.
These presentations ring true with me seeing as I left high school at the end of 1972. I took an Apprenticeship in Auto Mechanics, so a different but similar area. Thanks for preserving our history Fran.
Thank you for converting this film! The music was hilarious and the shots of daily life from that period dug up some great memories too. The before/after color correction were amazing too, great work :)
I wish these kinds of videos were around when I was in highschool. Left there not knowing what I want to do, something like that could have saved me a few years of waffling about figuring out what I wanted to be. But fortunately now I'm doing what I love! Cutting metal with cool machines!! Woo!
Fran: I remember this vid from High School. and I graduated in 71... I was interested in this career but instead got into this new computer field and worked almost 20 years as a mainframe operator. then switched to PCs and network security. But I still loved the idea of mills, lathes, presses, and hand tools. I assembled a hobbyist shop to teach myself how to do these thing and have had limited success. Precision Machining is a wonderful profession and had I to do it all over... Thank you for a memory that I hold dear.
I followed that path in 82 and I must say, I have always loved working on precision machinery. I have a Moore #2 and a Monarch #61 toolroom lathe in my Garage that get used regularly in building prototypes. I also think that having deadly machinery around is a bit scary if you have curious children (Yes.......I do have all my fingers).
I remember my first machine shop class at a community college (I was actually already rather experienced before I took it). The very first thing the instructor did was hold up ten fingers and say, "See. I still have all my fingers. Never forget that metal is stronger than flesh." It was the first class of a series, and the first lesson was the proper grinding of lathe tool bits. I already knew that information, but still thing that learning the cutting tool geometry, which applies to more than just lathes, is still a good "lesson 1." When I was myself instructing people on machinery safety, my primary line was, "About half the time when people have an accident, they experienced a bad feeling about what they were doing just before it. If you get a bad feeling about what you are doing, STOP, and think it through."
@@trainliker100 , I worked in the milling and drilling department of a major aerospace manufacturer for several years. The 1st thing the Foreman did on Day One was hold up a hank of hair to show what could happen if you leaned in too close to a spinning drill press (the machine operator lost hair but not scalp, and survived, but that must have really hurt).
I tell my kids when they are in my shop 'there is nothing more unforgiving than a machine'. I've never been injured by any of my machines. Some of my hand tools have got the better of me though, including my Noga deburring tool that sent me to the hospital for six stiches.
I working metal fabrication for a few months when I was a younger man, and though I liked the work, I was not encouraged by my lack of precision (which is absolutely required)... I could tell that the guys who liked it most had families, goals and a broader understanding of how it all came together. Great pay. Terrific pay and, with a good boss, good benefits to match. If I had more time to explore machining with scrap in order to better understand the fundamentals,aybe I'd of stuck with it longer. I greatly respect the magnificent versatility of machine tools and the capabilities of their technitions. They contribute so much to our civilization, and many of us really almost never realize it.
Dear Fran, Thanks for sharing the uncorrected and corrected clips at the end. That's a real challenge. Given the image video data you started with it amazing you achie ed the color quality that you did! THANKS!
Producer: we want the music to sound mechanical and interesting. Audio Engineer: Ok well we would need to record all new music to do that. Producer: Anything we can do for free? Audio Engineer: **Sigh** yeah I'll figure something out. **proceeds to take stock music and just cut that shit up and play it backwards**
As part of a 20-year stay at a manufacturing company, in 10 of those years, I was responsible for the repair of 15 or so CNC machines among other duties. Most of the time you were under the gun since a down machine can't make money. It was nerve-racking to say the least. Luckily I developed a good rep. 😅😅
⚓️ FRAN!!!😎 Great Video… story > a friend from college - had a neighbor- old guy neighbor was a retired machinist 🥸 FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS DEPT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY!!! Worked with the X-ray cyclotron & the atom smashers of the 40s 50s & 60s. Fun guy a lot of stories. 😎
These Videos provide a great look at the past. And how much has happened since then. It’s fascinating and horrifying at the same time, compared to lightning, PPE and safeguards of today.
It is important that women be given the same opportunities as men. When both are educated men and women are two wings of a bird and the bird is capable of flight. When only one wing is developed then the bird can not fly. Past e Inequalities of men and women, and current, hold mankind from a far more prosperous society.
@@yonatan62 I have run Category 5 and fiber optic computer cabling in factories and machine shops, using a bucket truck or scissors lift, working near and around overhead monorails, and rarely could we get them to shut the power off first. It was nerve racking work. The closest we came to life- threatening disaster was when we were running a large conduit pipe through an electrical room and accidentally banged a sprinkler head, causing it to leak. My coworker and I ran a bucket-brigade with 5 gallon buckets until the firemen arrived and somebody was able to figure out how to turn off the sprinkler. I saw this happen to another contractor in another facility; and in both cases our experience was that nobody seemed to know how and where to shut off the water that fed the sprinkler system, and figuring out that information from blueprints took way too long. And for that matter, you shouldn't have a sprinkler system utilizing water in a giant electrical room with transformers and breaker panels.
I’m kind of fascinated by this video. I’m about a generation or so behind the people in this video. I really wish that I’d gotten a bit more career guidance in the eighties. Also, I saw all of the de-industrialization that happened in the nineties on. Also, who did the theme music? I searched and checked with Shazam. Mamas and Papas maybe?
I, too, came up in the 80s, and never even heard of the trade from the career counselors. This was an almost all white school that prided itself on preparing kids for university, regardless their skill or aptitude. In contrast, I know a guy who went to a large, very diverse school who was automatically sent to shop classes most likely because of his ethnicity, even though he'd have trouble operating a screwdriver and was far more suited to more academic pursuits. He didn't know better and just accepted the classes like they were just normal. His mother worked in an office of the school system and knew exactly what had happened an worked hard to get him put on a track that would send him to university. Which was absolutely the best choice for him. But I was steered away from the trades toward university, which was a poor fit for me. I eventually became a machinist by roundabout path, which I quite enjoy. But now, as a 55 year old man, I'm considered a youngster in many shops. Not a lot of young people enter the trade, which is one of the things further putting pressure on manufacturing here in N. America. Schools are a bit more well intentioned and reluctant to steer kids away from university, even if it leads to poor outcomes as much as it did my friend who was steered into trades. Not to mention many young people are aiming higher of their own volition. Who can blame them? I'm amazed at how smart kids are today. It's funny how gendered the video treats the profession. In my experience, there's nothing physically difficult that demand machinists be strong men. I mentioned on a different video a couple weeks back how I've never known a woman machinist, but I do know several women welders, a trade that tends to be grubbier and demand more brute strength than the machine shop. I don't know if that's just a fluke in my experience or if it reflects broader trends.
Back in the early 1980s I worked for a major aerospace machining company for several years, and we had a couple of women working the machines alongside me. One of them was large and strong but the other was a tiny little slip of a thing who probably weighed 95 pounds soaking wet. We worked 2nd and 3rd shift so obviously they were capable of working with minimal supervision like I was.
Wow, I used to have sideburns like that. Hmm, I attended a vocational High School around the time of this movie. Alas, nothing "industrial" more art. Ah well. I had the chance to go to Aviation High (NYC) but stuck to architecture. Hmm...
I still get a kick from the "Ole" Aircraft machinist trade..... "You know when You're on the Leading edge when your forehead's making the Chips Fly".......
All seems live and well in China. Now machinists have no use when most production is done overseas due to low cost of electricity to start and then labor. I just got an electric breaker from an American company called EATON. Part made in the Dominican Republic.
I don't like the fact that they discourage women from the profession. Women are very bit as capable as men. In my experience women are more meticulous than men, and think beyond the requirements.
Here is a tip for some of you home machinists, or at least those of you with something like a machinist's tool chest with measuring tools and such (I'm sure Fran has a number of such watchers). Put a small piece of camphor block in your tool chest. Yes, you will smell it a little, but not much. What the camphor does is evaporate inside the chest and leave an incredibly thin film on all the surfaces of your measuring tools to prevent rust. It's an old machinist trick. And the little mirror you often see attached to the underside of the machinist tool chest lid, usually angled to be in a diamond orientation, isn't to check how clean your face is before you go home. It started being put there so you always had a mirror at the ready to help you remove something that got into your eye. (Safety glasses or goggles weren't always exactly standard fare long ago as even evidenced in a couple of places in this video.)
Excellent work. Thank you for bringing it back to life! My dad was a tool and die maker. I was in a high school apprenticeship program in the 80s where I had 8 week stints in manual machining, CNC machining, the gauge room and CAD drafting. I eventually chose to be a CAD jockey. It’s served me well for 40 years.
Well done, Fran. I don't have the patience to re-engineer soundtracks for films that trigger the copyright demons on UA-cam, nor do I have the talent to write original music. I'm glad you do.
11:55 is the IBM Plant in Rochester, MN, where both computer hardware and software was produced. Software still is. Worked there many years ago.
These presentations ring true with me seeing as I left high school at the end of 1972. I took an Apprenticeship in Auto Mechanics, so a different but similar area. Thanks for preserving our history Fran.
'watcha gonna do' -what a groovy tune..
Back then: watchagonna do when you're on your own...now: whatcha gonna do when they come for you...
I remember when we used to make stuff.
Thank you for converting this film! The music was hilarious and the shots of daily life from that period dug up some great memories too. The before/after color correction were amazing too, great work :)
Love this! Thank you for all the hard work in curating these for us!
I wish these kinds of videos were around when I was in highschool. Left there not knowing what I want to do, something like that could have saved me a few years of waffling about figuring out what I wanted to be. But fortunately now I'm doing what I love! Cutting metal with cool machines!! Woo!
Fran: I remember this vid from High School. and I graduated in 71... I was interested in this career but instead got into this new computer field and worked almost 20 years as a mainframe operator. then switched to PCs and network security. But I still loved the idea of mills, lathes, presses, and hand tools. I assembled a hobbyist shop to teach myself how to do these thing and have had limited success. Precision Machining is a wonderful profession and had I to do it all over... Thank you for a memory that I hold dear.
I followed that path in 82 and I must say, I have always loved working on precision machinery. I have a Moore #2 and a Monarch #61 toolroom lathe in my Garage that get used regularly in building prototypes. I also think that having deadly machinery around is a bit scary if you have curious children (Yes.......I do have all my fingers).
I remember my first machine shop class at a community college (I was actually already rather experienced before I took it). The very first thing the instructor did was hold up ten fingers and say, "See. I still have all my fingers. Never forget that metal is stronger than flesh." It was the first class of a series, and the first lesson was the proper grinding of lathe tool bits. I already knew that information, but still thing that learning the cutting tool geometry, which applies to more than just lathes, is still a good "lesson 1." When I was myself instructing people on machinery safety, my primary line was, "About half the time when people have an accident, they experienced a bad feeling about what they were doing just before it. If you get a bad feeling about what you are doing, STOP, and think it through."
I was taught that "Machines have no feelings, they don't apologise "
@@bostedtap8399 Don't tell anyone.....I used to talk to my Warner & Swasey. lol
@@trainliker100 , I worked in the milling and drilling department of a major aerospace manufacturer for several years. The 1st thing the Foreman did on Day One was hold up a hank of hair to show what could happen if you leaned in too close to a spinning drill press (the machine operator lost hair but not scalp, and survived, but that must have really hurt).
I tell my kids when they are in my shop 'there is nothing more unforgiving than a machine'. I've never been injured by any of my machines. Some of my hand tools have got the better of me though, including my Noga deburring tool that sent me to the hospital for six stiches.
Loving the reverse soundtrack in there.
Does the UA-cam algorithm recognise music that's played backwards? As seems evident in most of this film
Wow! I remember these films from my high school in Warminster in the mid seventies!
I working metal fabrication for a few months when I was a younger man, and though I liked the work, I was not encouraged by my lack of precision (which is absolutely required)... I could tell that the guys who liked it most had families, goals and a broader understanding of how it all came together. Great pay. Terrific pay and, with a good boss, good benefits to match.
If I had more time to explore machining with scrap in order to better understand the fundamentals,aybe I'd of stuck with it longer.
I greatly respect the magnificent versatility of machine tools and the capabilities of their technitions. They contribute so much to our civilization, and many of us really almost never realize it.
Dear Fran, Thanks for sharing the uncorrected and corrected clips at the end. That's a real challenge. Given the image video data you started with it amazing you achie ed the color quality that you did! THANKS!
opening/closing song was also in the Freaks and Geeks pilot episode when they're watching career film
Another Gem Fran. Brilliant job😊
the Sgt Peppersesque backward masking was pretty intense! I like it!
Producer: we want the music to sound mechanical and interesting.
Audio Engineer: Ok well we would need to record all new music to do that.
Producer: Anything we can do for free?
Audio Engineer: **Sigh** yeah I'll figure something out. **proceeds to take stock music and just cut that shit up and play it backwards**
Thanks Fran - this is awesome.
Wow... Real work is history for us now
As part of a 20-year stay at a manufacturing company, in 10 of those years, I was responsible for the repair of 15 or so CNC machines among other duties. Most of the time you were under the gun since a down machine can't make money. It was nerve-racking to say the least. Luckily I developed a good rep. 😅😅
As a machinist this gives me nostalgia shivers.
⚓️ FRAN!!!😎 Great Video… story > a friend from college - had a neighbor- old guy neighbor was a retired machinist 🥸 FROM THE EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS DEPT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY!!! Worked with the X-ray cyclotron & the atom smashers of the 40s 50s & 60s. Fun guy a lot of stories. 😎
Spent 25 years as a machinist until many of those jobs left the US.
These Videos provide a great look at the past. And how much has happened since then. It’s fascinating and horrifying at the same time, compared to lightning, PPE and safeguards of today.
very well done!
It is important that women be given the same opportunities as men. When both are educated men and women are two wings of a bird and the bird is capable of flight. When only one wing is developed then the bird can not fly. Past e
Inequalities of men and women, and current, hold mankind from a far more prosperous society.
12:58 "do not use metal ladders around monorail"?
@@yonatan62 ahhh to move the big parts around, now it make sense..thx!
@@yonatan62 I have run Category 5 and fiber optic computer cabling in factories and machine shops, using a bucket truck or scissors lift, working near and around overhead monorails, and rarely could we get them to shut the power off first. It was nerve racking work. The closest we came to life- threatening disaster was when we were running a large conduit pipe through an electrical room and accidentally banged a sprinkler head, causing it to leak. My coworker and I ran a bucket-brigade with 5 gallon buckets until the firemen arrived and somebody was able to figure out how to turn off the sprinkler. I saw this happen to another contractor in another facility; and in both cases our experience was that nobody seemed to know how and where to shut off the water that fed the sprinkler system, and figuring out that information from blueprints took way too long. And for that matter, you shouldn't have a sprinkler system utilizing water in a giant electrical room with transformers and breaker panels.
I’m kind of fascinated by this video. I’m about a generation or so behind the people in this video. I really wish that I’d gotten a bit more career guidance in the eighties. Also, I saw all of the de-industrialization that happened in the nineties on.
Also, who did the theme music? I searched and
checked with Shazam. Mamas and Papas maybe?
Commercial sound library music. Typical in the day - but today all copyrighted.
It still is a worthwhile profession...
Inside-out music track rocks!
Do high schools still have Industrial Arts classes?
love movie day.
This is the kind of stuff they would routinely show on Soviet TV.
Another interesting one from the amazing Fran - and this one has music too , but is it running backwards??
I, too, came up in the 80s, and never even heard of the trade from the career counselors. This was an almost all white school that prided itself on preparing kids for university, regardless their skill or aptitude. In contrast, I know a guy who went to a large, very diverse school who was automatically sent to shop classes most likely because of his ethnicity, even though he'd have trouble operating a screwdriver and was far more suited to more academic pursuits. He didn't know better and just accepted the classes like they were just normal. His mother worked in an office of the school system and knew exactly what had happened an worked hard to get him put on a track that would send him to university. Which was absolutely the best choice for him.
But I was steered away from the trades toward university, which was a poor fit for me. I eventually became a machinist by roundabout path, which I quite enjoy. But now, as a 55 year old man, I'm considered a youngster in many shops. Not a lot of young people enter the trade, which is one of the things further putting pressure on manufacturing here in N. America. Schools are a bit more well intentioned and reluctant to steer kids away from university, even if it leads to poor outcomes as much as it did my friend who was steered into trades. Not to mention many young people are aiming higher of their own volition. Who can blame them? I'm amazed at how smart kids are today.
It's funny how gendered the video treats the profession. In my experience, there's nothing physically difficult that demand machinists be strong men. I mentioned on a different video a couple weeks back how I've never known a woman machinist, but I do know several women welders, a trade that tends to be grubbier and demand more brute strength than the machine shop. I don't know if that's just a fluke in my experience or if it reflects broader trends.
Back in the early 1980s I worked for a major aerospace machining company for several years, and we had a couple of women working the machines alongside me. One of them was large and strong but the other was a tiny little slip of a thing who probably weighed 95 pounds soaking wet. We worked 2nd and 3rd shift so obviously they were capable of working with minimal supervision like I was.
Great job on the audio Fran. Silence sucks.
Wow, I used to have sideburns like that. Hmm, I attended a vocational High School around the time of this movie. Alas, nothing "industrial" more art. Ah well. I had the chance to go to Aviation High (NYC) but stuck to architecture. Hmm...
I still get a kick from the "Ole" Aircraft machinist trade..... "You know when You're on the Leading edge when your forehead's making the Chips Fly".......
All seems live and well in China. Now machinists have no use when most production is done overseas due to low cost of electricity to start and then labor. I just got an electric breaker from an American company called EATON. Part made in the Dominican Republic.
I don't like the fact that they discourage women from the profession. Women are very bit as capable as men. In my experience women are more meticulous than men, and think beyond the requirements.
We always said, you'll pay your bills, but never get rich. Glad i got out of that.
Lol I wish MST3K did this