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That's all true, but it's only true if you're making thousands of them a year, not hundreds. Much of what was stamped could be machined instead, you use stampin
by Aloha 7y ago
That's all true, but it's only true if you're making thousands of them a year, not hundreds. Much of what was stamped could be machined instead, you use stamping for economy and labor savings.
WE Hawthorne Works in Chicago was similarly large, and to build in quantity you'd need it to be just as large now, but to build a couple hundred strowger switches a month? Not as large.
The hardest part of bootstrapping to 1930 is making copper wire - doubly so for wire suitable for electrical coils.
- prashnts 7y agoReminds me of this article on the complexities at different levels of abstraction (sorta). http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-amount-of-detail http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
- rini17 7y agoYou mean, like, using 2000's CNC to manufacture 1930's teletype parts?
- Aloha 7y agoor manually operated mills too, the technology need not be advanced.