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What Ever Became of…Laserdisc Players?
I will readily admit that there are some weeks when I have come across some sort of remembered technology item that I thi9nk would be great for this little feature–and then there are weeks like this...
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Mesta Memories #23: Rope Drives and Flywheels
A large-ish rope drive wheel being turned on a pit lathe. Following on to the last post about the giant frikkin’ gears that the Mesta Machine Co. used to make, this time we’ll take a quick look at...
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Mesta Memories #24: Steam-Hydraulic Forging Presses
The Mesta Machine Company made large, and I daresay even huge, hydraulic forging presses for a great many years while they were in operation, and were widely used in industry. A while back I wrote a...
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Other is a Very Broad Term
The great thing about the “Other” categories on eBay Motors is that occasionally, instead of getting some random suspension parts that someone just listed poorly, instead you get something really out...
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Chertok’s Mustache
Hopefully you all got the chance to read the article linked in yesterday’s post, about the Soviet mission to resuscitate the Salyut 7 Space Station. In the comments of that article, the author,...
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Name That Plane!
Some time ago, I signed up for access to the government’s surplus auction website, which had changed a little since then but is now govliquidation.com. What hasn’t changed are the fun emails that they...
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Digital Monkeys
Unless you have been living under a rock, or perhaps have a cold empty heart devoid of emotional excitement for space adventures (coincidentally, space is also a cold empty void), you probably noticed...
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Shutdown: Easy!
If Asimov says it’s easy, it’s easy, okay?! Image via the Tumblr Dinosaur’s Pen. [As a side note, we may not have exciting new content on a daily basis, but we’ll try to give you a place for...
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Big Bad Blackbirds
The alternate title for this post should probably be Bill Weaver: The Biggest Badass You Might Not Know. What most of you likely do know is that the SR-71 was a) awesome, and b) developed after/with...
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