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Item Title
[The importance of grinding your own cutting tools]
Author/Creator
Interviewer: McCarl, Robert
Created/Published
August 08, 1994
Notes
Interview with Jimmy Dowling at Watson Machine International.
Summary of audio segment: Jimmy talks about the importance of grinding his own cutting tools. "I've been grinding my own tools for years. All the tools for making traverse screws I have over here, all my grinding tools." Jimmy users tracers -- reverse patterns that are used to measure and gauge screw depths and widths -- to make traverse screws. He made some of the tracers. I usually make a large number of the screws at a time -- ten or twenty of them -- so that we have them when a customer needs them. That way I don't have to stop whatever I am doing and make some more.
Subjects
Interviews
Irish Americans
Oral history
Sound recordings
Machinery industry
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson
Watson Machine International
Object Type
Related Names
Narrator: Dowling, Jim
Medium
Analog Audio Cassette
Language
English
Call Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-A003; A: 15:50
Reproduction Number
AFC 1995/028: WIP-RM-A003
Part of
Working in Paterson Folklife Project
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afcwip rma00305
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.rma00305