| BEHIND THE SCENES USS JASON SHOPS WWII |
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| BOILER SHOP Bending Boiler Tubes on a fixture Mfg by the Jason. In background a Marine Condenser in process of Mfg. Complete retubing of boilers, rebricking of fire boxes, repairing stacks and mfg incinerators were routine for this ship. |
| WELDING SHOP Omnigraph being used with an acetylene torch to cut design in tie down rails for flight decks of aircraft carriers. Many intricate designs close tolerance including large steel gears two inches in thicknes were cut with this machine. |
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| FOUNDRY An electric arc furnace being tapped and mold being poured in foreground. The foundry in 542 heats poured castings of ferrous and non-ferrous metals amounting to a total of 177,686 lbs. The size of the castings ranged upward to 900 lbs. |
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| ELECTRICAL SHOP The electrical work shop repaired many motors, rewound armatures and field coils to motors ranging from 1,000 HP down to small fans. In addition transformers of all types were rewound including transformers with up to 15,000 volts. |
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| GYRO COMPASS SHOP An Arma Master Compass Mark VII being repaired. There was a constant demand in the forward area from merchant and navy ships for repairs to gyro compass components of all marks and models. |
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| MACHINE SHOP The receiver chest at the left was fabricated of steel with weldments in the machine shop(weld sect) It is a duplicate of worn out chest at right. Welded steel fab saved many hours of pattern and foundry work. |
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| MACHINE SHOP A hob for a non std. worm gear being milled. This is an example of the many special tools in Jason's machine shop was called upon to manufacture in order to fulfil demands for special materials. |
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| PRINT SHOP A printer is seen operating the Davidson Offset press, which was overtaxed to the wxtent od 3 1/4 million impressions in 14 months of war-time printing. A vari-typer operator at right prepares copy for reproduction. |
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