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Forgotten Master Craftsmen of Yesterday (1936)

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Larry Jaques

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Mar 13, 2018, 7:53:44 AM3/13/18
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4RZ-FEi6M&index=8&list=WL
This documentary film shows the engineers and machinists of the past
performing a variety of tasks hand tools and equipment in 1936.

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pyotr filipivich

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Mar 13, 2018, 11:25:18 AM3/13/18
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Larry Jaques <lja...@invalid.diversifycomm.com> on Tue, 13 Mar 2018
04:53:44 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4RZ-FEi6M&index=8&list=WL
>This documentary film shows the engineers and machinists of the past
>performing a variety of tasks hand tools and equipment in 1936.

Watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno, built a mechanical watch with variable
hours. Hand tools. 2015.
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1moRfIXCfak>

I wish I could afford something like that.
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Larry Jaques

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Mar 14, 2018, 9:40:43 AM3/14/18
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 08:26:39 -0700, pyotr filipivich
<ph...@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Larry Jaques <lja...@invalid.diversifycomm.com> on Tue, 13 Mar 2018
>04:53:44 -0700 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:
>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4RZ-FEi6M&index=8&list=WL
>>This documentary film shows the engineers and machinists of the past
>>performing a variety of tasks hand tools and equipment in 1936.
>
>Watchmaker Masahiro Kikuno, built a mechanical watch with variable
>hours. Hand tools. 2015.
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1moRfIXCfak>
>
> I wish I could afford something like that.

My hands are too large to even consider anything like that. I've
never been interested in the tiny stuff at all, happy to allow nanites
to do all the tedious stuff for me. (I can't wait for tech to catch
up to the point scifi authors have us playing with.)

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A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full
description of a happy state in this world.
--John Locke

Gunner Asch

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Mar 17, 2018, 11:17:52 PM3/17/18
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 04:53:44 -0700, Larry Jaques
<lja...@invalid.diversifycomm.com> wrote:

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY4RZ-FEi6M&index=8&list=WL
>This documentary film shows the engineers and machinists of the past
>performing a variety of tasks hand tools and equipment in 1936.

I love watching the old factory films. Lots of stuff much the same
today..lots of stuff that is totally different

Thanks!!


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