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Appreciation post: The old machine shop at the Tacoma history museum made me rethink my setup.

I visited the museum last weekend and saw a 1940s Bridgeport mill running a part with a jig that was basically just a block of wood and some clamps (which, honestly, looked way more clever than half the fixtures I've drawn up in CAD this month).
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lisab32
lisab327d ago
That "block of wood and some clamps" thing... it's funny how we overcomplicate stuff now. Makes you wonder what they'd do with our fancy tools.
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craig.parker
What if the real skill was knowing how to make the simple stuff work? We've got all the tools now but maybe less of that deep understanding of the material itself. They had to think with their hands in a way we just don't anymore. It's like we traded that gut feel for a digital readout.
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angelamurphy
A block of wood? For real? That mill could probably take your finger off but the setup was held together with scrap from a hardware store.
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