Old School Videos

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[Zoffen]

YES! These are the best!

[Brian]

I love watching stuff like this, though it often leaves me thinking that I was born about 50 years too late!

I think of stuff like this (manufacturing in general, engineering/prototyping/toolmaking in particular) as what I like to call the "real economy" (adding value to things in order to better our world) as opposed to the "bullshit economy" (making money with money, for no other reason than to make well...."money").

[Zoffen]

[Newbeeee™]

^^^^Awesome to see!
But by the 3rd part, after the airline has blown the chips everywhere, everything quickly goes to rat....

[Newbeeee™]

Here's another goody - Colchester lathes.
They had a badge on the tailstock casting - the globe, with the slogan "The world turns on Colchester lathes"
Clausing in the US i believe - unsure about Canada?

[Rstewart]

It's so cool these videos exist.  I could watch them all day, man people used to really WORK

[Rstewart]

My cousin who works in an R&D lab for Nasa has two Monarch EEs.  They sent them back to Monarch about 3 years ago to be completely rebuild - he said it was somewhere around 100k

I noticed on one of the Monarch old videos on YT, one of the commenters from 7 months ago said he still works there.

[Jeff]

They sent them back to Monarch about 3 years ago to be completely rebuild - he said it was somewhere around 100k

I suspect that the price was that high because it was for NASA lol.