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• pjames777 Senior Member Posts: 1,421 Senior Member

  June 2020 #2

  Shocking!
  
  

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• earlyagain Posts: 6,888 Senior Member

  June 2020 #3

  I wonder if the audio is authentic?

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• DrawbarFlats Posts: 788 Senior Member

  June 2020 #4

  Jolting!

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• Rafterman New Member Posts: 254 Member

  June 2020 #5

  People with their big brains and what they're able to imagine and invent. That's cool. My brain is stuck in a ditch with a shovel.    

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• Gene L Senior Member Posts: 11,861 Senior Member

  June 2020 #6

  Electric!

  Concealed carry is for protection, open carry is for attention.
  

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• Linefinder Moderator Posts: 7,251 Senior Member

  June 2020 edited June 2020 #7

  This is what I think is downright awesome.......
  
  I work with a machine that'll get something down to .002" if you're careful. If I need it closer than that, I can transfer to a machine that holds a much, much tighter tolerance. If I have to be closer than that, I've got another machine that'll certainly do that if I (and the company) am willing to spend the time.
  
  Sometimes when I get a complex part right, I'm feeling pretty smart. But that feeling doesn't last long, because I always remember there was a toolmaker (or group of them) that built the equipment I used to build that part, and to achieve my tolerances, theirs had to be much less. And the machine stands up to this type of use, (and abuse) in most cases, for decades and still works.
  
  The engineers that designed such a machine. The programmers that figured out how to CNC things, The folks that make the cutting tools that actually contact the part.
  
  I can build a thing. But the process of making the stuff that allows me to build a thing is mind boggling. 
  
  Mike
  
  
  
  
  

  "Walking away seems to be a lost art form."
  N454casull
  

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• zorba Senior Member Posts: 23,964 Senior Member

  June 2020 #8

  Yes it is!
  

  -Zorba, "The Veiled Male"
  
  "If you get it and didn't work for it, someone else worked for it and didn't get it..."
  

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• Rafterman New Member Posts: 254 Member

  June 2020 #9

  I watch every episode of "How It's Made" on TV. Sometimes it's not what's being made but the machinery that's making it that I find fascinating. The speed and precision boggles my mind.
  

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• GunNut Posts: 6,326 Senior Member

  June 2020 #10

  Linefinder said:

  This is what I think is downright awesome.......
  
  I work with a machine that'll get something down to .002" if you're careful. If I need it closer than that, I can transfer to a machine that holds a much, much tighter tolerance. If I have to be closer than that, I've got another machine that'll certainly do that if I (and the company) am willing to spend the time.
  
  Sometimes when I get a complex part right, I'm feeling pretty smart. But that feeling doesn't last long, because I always remember there was a toolmaker (or group of them) that built the equipment I used to build that part, and to achieve my tolerances, theirs had to be much less. And the machine stands up to this type of use, (and abuse) in most cases, for decades and still works.
  
  The engineers that designed such a machine. The programmers that figured out how to CNC things, The folks that make the cutting tools that actually contact the part.
  
  I can build a thing. But the process of making the stuff that allows me to build a thing is mind boggling. 
  
  Mike
  
  
  
  
  

  Well that thought will be rattling around in my brain all day!!!

  Old West Saying: God created men, but Col. Sam Colt made them equal.
  
  

  General George Patton:  “Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”

  
  

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• DrawbarFlats Posts: 788 Senior Member

  June 2020 #11

  Linefinder said:

  This is what I think is downright awesome.......
  
  I work with a machine that'll get something down to .002" if you're careful. If I need it closer than that, I can transfer to a machine that holds a much, much tighter tolerance. If I have to be closer than that, I've got another machine that'll certainly do that if I (and the company) am willing to spend the time.
  
  Sometimes when I get a complex part right, I'm feeling pretty smart. But that feeling doesn't last long, because I always remember there was a toolmaker (or group of them) that built the equipment I used to build that part, and to achieve my tolerances, theirs had to be much less. And the machine stands up to this type of use, (and abuse) in most cases, for decades and still works.
  
  The engineers that designed such a machine. The programmers that figured out how to CNC things, The folks that make the cutting tools that actually contact the part.
  
  I can build a thing. But the process of making the stuff that allows me to build a thing is mind boggling. 
  
  Mike
  
  
  
  
  

  Reminds me of the tall tale I read back in the 70s about the then Soviet Union machining and welding a piece of aircraft aluminum so small that it could only be viewed through a powerful microscope. After supposedly sending it to NASA as a middle finger, and to boast their superiority in the space race, our engineers were no doubt impressed with their technology - so much, that we drilled a bunch of holes in it and sent it back to them. I always got a laugh on that one. 
  

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• Diver43 Senior Member Posts: 11,143 Senior Member

  June 2020 #12

  ^^^Who said thats a tall tale?^^^    I knew a Navy machinist mate that said he drilled the holes.  All 50 of them to represent our States

  Logistics cannot win a war, but its absence or inadequacy can cause defeat. FM100-5

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• DrawbarFlats Posts: 788 Senior Member

  June 2020 #13

  Diver43 said:

  ^^^Who said thats a tall tale?^^^    I knew a Navy machinist mate that said he drilled the holes.  All 50 of them to represent our States

  Ha! Good one! 
  

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