Comments by "Asbestos Muffins" (@AsbestosMuffins) on "Machine Thinking" channel.

  1. there was a special kind of aircraft engine that only ended up being used on blimps but Barrel Engines are one of those weird what-if technologies because they are very close to radials in size
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  2. I have no experience but the base could have been made after the fact by even the exhibitors just to show it off. something like this would have been unwieldy to use so screwing it to a table with a quickly made sheet of brass might have been a quick fix. whoever used it before that might have just held it with a clamp or some other tool you'd find in a workshop for their use
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  3. its a good book, but its a bit british-centric
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  4. one could say modern word processors are free publishing, no screws attached
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  5. it was 60 years from the first flight to the landing on the moon, 70 years from the publishing of metric screw threads
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  6. I wonder how the measurements from my old job's CMM which was stuck in the very back of the met-lab compares to this thing
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  7. The return pipe could easily have been the output to a canal or aqueduct
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  8. I wonder if they've considered trying putting one of these in a nitrogen chamber for that extra certainty
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