Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "The Ta-Gō – Japan’s Last-Ditch Kamikaze" video.

In case everybody missed it the horizontal milling machine being operated by a Japanese worker was made in Cincinnati. It says so right on the machine.
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@hydorah Blame Nixon. And in part blame ourselves. Everybody loves a bargain. Also blame companies like WalMart. They kept pushing suppliers to reduce costs. In the end the only way companies could continue to sell to them was to chase ever cheaper production costs. But China's facing a couple of big problems. One is demographics brought on by the one child policy. Another is a badly skewed Male to female ration due to spouses choosing genders via abortions
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@dave8599 Nothing says you can't run industrial power tools off of hydraulic systems. The advantages. Constant torque at all rpms. On the fly Infinity variable spindle speeds from zero to 100% with nothing more than a flow control valve. Variable pressure output via pressure relief valves that take the place of transformers and/or rheostats. The downsides. Running tubing or hoses from a central supply. Leaks. All, and I mean all hydraulic systems will leak. Did i mention leaks. Noise. Hydraulic systems can be noisy. The last place I worked built industrial centrifuges for a variety of uses. One model model used a hydraulic motor to spin the centrifuge. The machines already had hydraulics on them as they use a hydraulic motor with flow control valves to control both the rpms and power output in terms of torque for the internal augers used to move the dewaterin material out of the machine. One thing the Amish do is to convert woodworking machinery to hydraulic and run the hydraulic pump with a gas or diesel engine. Your already having to buy the fuel anyway so why not just run the equipment with electricity from the generator. Or put in a couple of vertical axis wind turbines and use those. As to the vertical axis wind turbines. The aren't as efficient as the horizontal axis ones (40% vs 50%) but they are more efficient in terms of how much area they take up plus they have certain other benefits. One is that all you have at the top of the mast is the bearing set. Second is the generator is down at base level. Third is you do not have to be able to rotate them into the wind. https://www.centrisys-cnp.com/videos
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What about the US Navy's "kamikazi". The Fleetwings BQ's. Of course there were the B-17s close to the end of their useful service life converted to remote controlled flying bombs.
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