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kleinbl00  ·  1960 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: November 14, 2018

Hung out with the guy who restored Maillardet's Automaton. 127 linear feet of programming, XYZ plotting, capable of reproducing details less than a mm across.

In 1790.

He showed me an unsigned vienna grande sonnerie movement that's probably 270 years old. It still works. It has a fusee chain that would be dwarfed by angel hair pasta.

Somebody made that. By lamplight. With nothing more technologically sophisticated than an archimedes drill.

Me? I spent 45 minutes turning a larger Delrin cylinder into a smaller Delrin cylinder on a shitty Taiwanese lathe. Having a hard time being enthusiastic about my education at the moment.





HGL  ·  1959 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I dont get it KB, why waste your time on a formal education? Why not just go out, buy some equipment that will hold value and spend you time building things, learning from practice and maybe doing workshops with real pros once in a while? Do you need that piece of paper to get a loan or something?

kleinbl00  ·  1959 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not doing the piece of paper. I'm doing the "make me do what you want so that I can get some time on $150k machines" dance. We've reached an agreement that next time it will literally be me paying for independent study. There's an effectively-new Doosan Lynx in the corner that nobody knows how to run; I'm going to spend some time running parts on it.

This quarter was the impetus for formalizing that arrangement. 'cuz my piece of shit Delrin cylinder was supposed to be a piece of shit foamcore cylinder. And fuck everything about foamcore.