Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

One of my vices is vises, broken one

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Seen on Marketplace. Rather disappointing for something that doesn't look very old or misused.. I expect this is shoddy material rather ...

NR750 cutaway

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 The oval piston street bike. Surely, one of the most exotic production vehicles of all time. Honda made 300 and I bet very few were ever ri...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Know your self threading screws...

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No mention of the self drilling option.  
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Land yacht

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 Wretched excess... Longer, lower, wider, mostly longer...
Monday, July 6, 2026

Stationary steam engine

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  Look at those castings. No human included for scale but that's an impressive hunk of iron. Blowing engine - Wikipedia  
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Longines poster; The measure of time

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Another great poster from the European art deco era of graphic design.  Artist: RenĂ© Bleuer
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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Sidecar Sunday, missed opportunity

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  Back in the 1980s when everyone was overreacting about the 3wheel ATCs, Missile Engineering offered a two wheel conversion kit to convert ...
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Sidecar Sunday

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The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star

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 I found this picture of a Constellation with radomes in an old Popular Electronics magazine, figured it must have been an artist's rend...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Lathe vs Milling machine

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The message is clear, nerds run lathes but cool, tough guys run mills. John Feirer and Earl Tetro,  Machine Tool Metalworking , McGraw-Hill,...
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