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A mill at my workplace that is from the 50s (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

A friend of mine had a movie editing table made out of steel. It was from the 50s or early 60s, and was apparently made out of battleship steel.

I've heard that after WWII there was so much extra steel that making things out of steel was unusually cheap. As a result, a lot of those things have survived because they could afford to overbuild things using cheap steel. I wonder if it is also that machinists who worked during WWII were used to overbuilding things because they had to survive in a war environment.