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A classic manual Bridgeport mill, a foundry for making castings, a heat-treating furnace, a steel planer, a lathe, a drill press, a grinder, and a supply of ste
by Animats 8mo ago
A classic manual Bridgeport mill, a foundry for making castings, a heat-treating furnace, a steel planer, a lathe, a drill press, a grinder, and a supply of steel is enough for a master machinist to reproduce all that. That's what was used to make machine tools in the first half of the 20th century.
- aleph_minus_one 8mo ago... and now work on - how these machining processes can be automatized, and - how the cost, space requirements and noise levels for these machines can be reduced so that every ambitious maker can have them in their apartment Voila, the start of a home manufacturing revolution ...