Texas | bigontario - 10/5/2021 09:21
I am a tool and die maker by trade but only an average one. Its quite a privilege to be around someone as talented as this man must have been. Thanks for the pics and the story on that chap
You bet. It was often fun just bringing him a project to make parts for and seeing some of the things he’d be working on. I regret not taking any photos of the aviation tools he’d sometimes make for others. The CAF needed a prop puller for the DC3. A new one was priced at $10,000 then. He told them if they’d pay for the materials he’d donate the labor and make one. They agreed so he ordered materials and cranked out a nice prop puller. Most of his machines weren’t CNC. A few might’ve been CNC capable but he did everything old school.
There was some other tool he showed me that was also for airplanes but it was for an aviation mechanic somewhere else. He didn’t donate the labor on that one. It was heavy and required a hydraulic table to lift. I don’t recall right off hand what it was designed to do.
Edited by Pigpiggy 10/5/2021 13:01
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Photo of friend during the Korean War
