Here's a link to Grit In the Gears ......
He's got a twisted heart.
See it live ..... (pronounced with a long I or short i?) ....
http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2008/11/heart-gears.html
While people say, "To be a machinist, your heart has to be in it," in truth, it is considered good practice to keep organs and body parts out of the machinery.
12 years ago
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I have a finely geared heart. Just got a bit of grit in it....
As part of an earlier life, I used to throw rocks into gears. The object was to manufacture finely powdered rock. I always admired those gears and whoever made them.
I had a hundred-year-old screw-cutting lathe, got it for nothing, used it to make all sorts of things I could not afford to buy.
moved house, had to give it away again. sad.
Soubriquet,
I'm sure your lathe misses you as well. This new world order thing doesn't leave much room for "things built to last".
You made abrasive powders .... talcum powder ... pigment powders ... ???? what kind of rock powders did you make?
In my earlier life I was a potter. There are several different sorts of potter. One is the sort who buys all the stuff they need from a single big supplier, ready made. Another is the sort who digs stuff out of the ground, and uses it, who looks at old industrial revolution era machines, and thinks of new uses for them. My clay mixers in the past have been belt driven bakery dough-mixers, putty mixers... And quarry assay machines make good stonecrushers, and of course, stones make glazes (feldspars, various metal ores, chalk, shales...)
Of course, a machine-head like me can get carried away playing with machines, and forget that making pots is what pays the bills.
Link to my blogpost on pottery making.
http://gritinthegears.blogspot.com/2008/06/of-allure-of-clay.html
Yikes!!!!!!!
That's a lot of powdered earth!
"Grit in the Gears" makes a lot of sense now. Thanks for sharing!
Quack, Quack!
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