Pictures of a large Russian Workplant

tdmidget said:

Can anyone supply details about the engines piled up at the tank repair plant? Looks like maybe 2 kinds.

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Whatley said:

I never seem to see good pictures of Russia. It's like if Detroit became a country in the north pole.

And then I look at the numbers for the causalities in wars like World War 2... a very proud and noble country... a very raw deal on a lot of things.

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hjl4 said:

This is very interesting.
But sad to say, you don't have to go so far to see pictures of old abandoned plants like these. Hamilton,ON many abandoned steel plants. Sault Ste Marie, ON steel plant still in operation but no money to upgrade anything. Detroit, MI many manufacturing plants sitting idle. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Wisconsin and many other places. North Carolina lost the GE plant, I forget which town, but it looked similar when we moved the old machinery out of there.
We brought a Russian CNC gantry mill that was retrofitted with new electronics and refurbished from Hamilton,ON to Wisconsin. It took 5 semi loads to get it down there and the customs invoice was 5 million dollars. After they were done unloading, I asked the guys at the shop what they would use it for, they told me they were going to make the new Lincoln dashboard molds as its first job.
This mill came with 12 large binders with detailed drawings of every single part. You definitely could of made a new one with the detailed drawings.

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