Morgans wrote:
"Dan" wrote

A show on television showed a lathe turning a drive shaft for an
aircraft carrier. Now that was a tad too large for me.

How about a milling machine large enough to profile and balance an aircraft
carrier propeller?

Can you imagine the click a breakaway torque wrench needed to tighten
the nut holding that prop on would make?


Yep, a bit big for me, too.

I wonder if that 4 foot lathe was used for truing compressor wheels from jet
engines?

That would be depot level. The lathe I saw had a 4 foot bed, not 4
foot swing.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired