Machinist Pins and Buttons
Description: Based in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Oshawa Cylinder Head was a machine shop that focused on the manufacturing and machining of cylinder heads. In addition to walk in projects, they maintained contracts with several manufacturers to provide them with custom spec cylinder heads, supplying them to their Ontario engine plants for final assembly.
Description: Sta-Lube was founded in 1933 in Compton, California with a mission to create high-performance motor oils for use in racing engines. After finding success at the track, Sta-Lube expanded its product offerings to heavy equipment and severe service applications, and eventually to the shelves of auto parts stores for use in daily driven passenger cars. Product lines expanded from just motor oil applications to include greases, gear oils, service oils, additives, and lubrication equipment.
Description: PERFECT GIFT FOR A CNC-MACHINIST - CNC Machinists Have Tolerance Issues is a funny saying for everyone who works with a CNC controlled machine like a laser cutter, wood or metal router, engraver.IMPRESS YOUR COWORKER with this great mechanic design for every Miller or Turner. This is also a great birthday or Christmas gift for your husband, dad, grandpa or boyfriend if they love working with metal, CNC coding or working with a CAD CAM software.
Description: Frank McGurk was a race car driver in the '30s and '40s, but had so many innovative ideas for pulling more performance out of engines, he became an engineer to implement them himself. While his work started earlier after his service during WWII, he formally founded McGurk Engineering in 1950 in Gardena, California. Designing everything from cams and manifolds to heads and rocker assemblies, McGurk was a talented engineer who specialized in small block V8 and inline 6 bow tie mills, the latter of which were extremely popular with sprint car racers, while the V8s were the hot ticket for drag racers and hot rodders. McGurk worked until 1969 when he sold the company, but remained active in the racing community until is death in 1982.
Description: This design celebrates the proud men and women who built the iconic AWACS amazing aircraft and continued to support them decades after the first one rolled off the assembly line.The E-3 Sentry is an American airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft, commonly known as AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System). Derived from the 707 airliner, it provides all-weather surveillance, command, control, and communications. The E-3 is distinguished by the distinctive rotating radar dome (rotodome) above the fuselage. Production began in 1977 and ended in 1992 after 68 aircraft had been built, though the aircraft are still very much in service.
Description: The Bunnell Motor Company was founded in the '30s in Bunnell, Florida as an engine repair and rebuild shop. W. H. Atkinson II purchased the business in 1943, keeping things business as usual for a while, but his interest in stock car racing saw Bunnell Motor Company begin offering some high performance engines as a way to be a part of the stock car racing scene. By the early '50s, his son W. H. Atkinson III was getting into racing, and of course, it was one of dad's engines that powered his race car. By the late '50s, Bunnell Motor Company was focused almost entirely on stock car and drag racing engines, and after his dad died in 1962, Atkinson III had Bunnell Motor Company exclusively building high performance engines.
Description: The only way to get big stroke in the early decades of hot rodding was taking an existing crank, building up the journals through welding, and then machine finishing it, and that is what Alex Alexander had a knack for. As a welder, machinist, and avid hot rodder, Alex started making his own welded strokers in the '50s. As orders stacked up from word of mouth, he eventually had to admit that he had a business and formalized his operation as the less than creatively named 'Crankshaft Company' in 1965. From mild to wild, Crankshaft Company could build it and build it right, whether it was a street driven small block or a top fuel big block, the originator of the welded stroker could be counted on to go the distance.
Description: Long time drag racing fans hear the name Lee Shepherd, and most likely think of one of the best pro stock drivers to come out of the Lone Star State. Long time racers know that Lee Shepherd as well, but many recall him as the master machinist who made some of the best racing heads of all time. Shepherd's talent behind the wheel, combined with his non-confrontational personality and a mastery of bowtie engine building, earned him the admiration of race fans and fellow racers alike. Known for his quiet competence, Shepherd knew his craft well, both in the machine shop and on the track, and let his skills do the talking. While Shepherd passed away far too soon on the track in 1985, his winning legacy and high performance racing heads live on.
