Machine Tools on Telly

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

I keep an eye out for machine tools on TV. This example is 23 minutes into 'The Score'. It's background in the workshop of the master criminal played by Robert de Niro.

Anyone recognise it?

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 10:36:10

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

I think it's a lathe

Rod

[Chris TriceParticipant @christrice43267]

Howard's lab in "The Big Bang Theory" is stuffed with familiar equipment.

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

I think I agree with Rod

Roy

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Do you think it was thrown In as a bit of brand sponsorship?

[jimmy bParticipant @jimmyb]

It’s strangely pleasing that I’m not the only one…

The wife doesn’t share my enthusiasm for such things….

Jim

[mark smith 20Participant @marksmith20]

Dave, yes its an Hardinge or was that what others were hinting at

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

How disappointing.

I thought this would be a thread on multipurpose bench/home entertainment centres so your SO could watch Eastenders while you indulge your hobby.

N.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I think they may be welding gloves.

There was a row of about 8 nice turret mills on the news the other day when some politician was doing a tour of a training workshop.

Edited By Bazyle on 28/11/2017 12:51:09

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Thanks guys – a Hardinge.

Considering the lathe is only in view for about 30 seconds, someone went to a fair bit of trouble to make it look good. There's an air-line, gloves, ear-protectors, peg-board, dodgy shelving, dirt, lamp, wiring and junk under the stand. Quite realistic compared with Howard's Big Bang Theory lab where the kit looks unused. They're not very consistent about scene setting either. It moves about between episodes.

Robert de Niro's man-cave is accessed through a secret door in his lavatory. It's not explained how a heavy lathe was manoeuvred at right angles through the smallest room in the house.

Inside the workshop the action focuses on the impossibility of drilling a hardened steel safe door fitted with a glass auto-locking mechanism. Looked authentic to me. When later in the film he pulls the job, he uses an oxygen lance to cut a small hole in the roof of the safe, fills it with water from the sprinkler system, and then lowers a small stick of dynamite into the centre of the safe. When it goes bang, the safe inflates like a balloon and the door pops off in a shower of water. I think that would work too! Fortunately the item being stolen was shock-proof. Surely most valuables in a safe would be badly mangled if you opened it that way! Any safe-cracking experts on the forum?

Dave

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Maybe not, but if you search online for 'le petomain' you should find a safeblowing blog by an ex-peterman…

Or try http://peterman.org.uk/

Geoff

Edited By Geoff Theasby on 28/11/2017 15:50:15

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

A Thermic lance would work a treat, but the contents might not enjoy it!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Geoff Theasby on 28/11/2017 15:47:25:

Maybe not, but if you search online for 'le petomain'

I thought that was the Frenchman who could fart La Marseilles…

N.

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 28/11/2017 16:54:52:

Posted by Geoff Theasby on 28/11/2017 15:47:25:

Maybe not, but if you search online for 'le petomain'

I thought that was the Frenchman who could fart La Marseilles…

N.

 

 

 

And you reckon some of us lot lower the tone of the forum. That's not setting a very good example, is it?

 

 

Edited By David Standing 1 on 28/11/2017 17:05:07

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Incredible what you learn on this forum. 'Flatulist', 'Farteur' and 'Fartiste' are all real words. I wonder if Peterman (meaning a safebreaker) and Saltpetre also derive from the french 'péter' meaning to fart.  (Whatever that is: being a member of the aristocracy I wouldn't know.)

Dave

 

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 17:18:37

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 28/11/2017 12:48:17:

How disappointing.

I thought this would be a thread on multipurpose bench/home entertainment centres so your SO could watch Eastenders while you indulge your hobby.

N.

Well, I dunno about your telly, but you couldn't put anything bigger than my Sieg C0 on mine without breaking it.

An' even then, if you tried to do owt on it, the family'd be whingeing that they couldn't see the picture.

Maybe I should buy one o' them great big tellys, but even then I don't think the Warco'd go on it…

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Mick B1 on 28/11/2017 17:19:28:

Maybe I should buy one o' them great big tellys, but even then I don't think the Warco'd go on it…

Bring back the days when a 48" telly was the size of the cabinet, not the screen

[Alan VosParticipant @alanvos39612]

Leonard Rossiter as 'Le Petomane':

**LINK**

[clogsParticipant @clogs]

what a great bunch of guy's u lot are…….so nice to have a chuckle…….

carry on then…..more, more…..clogs

[MeunierParticipant @meunier]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 15:20:47:

<<snip Robert de Niro's man-cave is accessed through a secret door in his lavatory. It's not explained how a heavy lathe was manoeuvred at right angles through the smallest room in the house.

 

Dave snip>>

 

Judging by the example lavvy you posted recently, access to his secret man-cave is unlikely to be discovered !
Daved.

Edited By Meunier on 28/11/2017 20:58:34

[Geoff TheasbyParticipant @geofftheasby]

Yes Neil,

That is he. We had Blaster Bates, they had Mr Pujol. 'Tis true.

Geoff

[BikepeteParticipant @bikepete]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 10:35:28:

I keep an eye out for machine tools on TV. This example is 23 minutes into 'The Score'. It's background in the workshop of the master criminal played by Robert de Niro.

Anyone recognise it?

Dave

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 10:36:10

> Dave, yes its an Hardinge

> Thanks guys – a Hardinge.

Sorry folks but unless Hardinge made an exact copy of a Schaublin 102VM no it isn't

Obligatory link to pics on lathes.co.uk

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Posted by Bikepete on 30/11/2017 22:36:22:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 28/11/2017 10:35:28:

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> Dave, yes its an Hardinge

> Thanks guys – a Hardinge.

Sorry folks but unless Hardinge made an exact copy of a Schaublin 102VM no it isn't

Obligatory link to pics on lathes.co.uk

Having compared the photos on Bikepete's link against Hardinge pictures on the same site (lathes.co.uk), I'm convinced Pete's right : it's a Schaublin. At first glance there are many similarities between the two lathes, like the gear cover, paint job, tailstock shape, polished controls and general layout. On closer inspection the details are Schlaubin.

Well spotted Pete!

Ta,

Dave

[mark smith 20Participant @marksmith20]

yes Pete, i concur its a Schaublin,they do look very similar on first looking.

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