Post drill. Thank you for that term. I inherited one from my wife's late grandfather that I still need to restore, but I only knew to call it a "manual drill press."
I've found that shopping for tools at antique shops, with the intention of applying elbow grease back home, is a pretty good way of getting extremely durable items. They aren't shiny (yet, haha!), but they're often cheaper than the shiny new thing that will require either a wall outlet or a battery pack.
Didn't expect this take on the subject, it's genuinely thought-provoking to disect how we define technology today. It makes me wonder, especially working with AI, if we're not just creating more complex energy sinks that obscure the original intent of practical application even further.
I think so. I don't think it's "progress" in any way. Nobody I know wants it and I don't see any benefit for the human race who lives in this deeply degraded and failing ecosystem.
My dad picked me up a post drill at auction, the cam arm for the auto feed had cracked off at some point but was present with the drill and he was able to torch braze it back on. it drills like the day it came from the foundry despite being 115 years old. I have never been sitting at it cranking away thinking 'man i wish this was faster' i am instead sitting there mesmerized by the whirring gears, the genius of the cams, and the kintsugi beauty of the gold-bronze repair my dad made.
Post drill. Thank you for that term. I inherited one from my wife's late grandfather that I still need to restore, but I only knew to call it a "manual drill press."
I've found that shopping for tools at antique shops, with the intention of applying elbow grease back home, is a pretty good way of getting extremely durable items. They aren't shiny (yet, haha!), but they're often cheaper than the shiny new thing that will require either a wall outlet or a battery pack.
Three things:
1. Brilliant, as you often are. :-)
2. Nate’s entire MO is to make us less energy blind as a society; further exploration of his content is warranted.
3. Not sure it was the wrong path as much as the inevitable one once the monkeys found the flammable fossils.
Perfect. Somehow it has me thinking about the old story of the industrialist and the fisherman. We forgot the plot somewhere along the line.
Didn't expect this take on the subject, it's genuinely thought-provoking to disect how we define technology today. It makes me wonder, especially working with AI, if we're not just creating more complex energy sinks that obscure the original intent of practical application even further.
I think so. I don't think it's "progress" in any way. Nobody I know wants it and I don't see any benefit for the human race who lives in this deeply degraded and failing ecosystem.
My dad picked me up a post drill at auction, the cam arm for the auto feed had cracked off at some point but was present with the drill and he was able to torch braze it back on. it drills like the day it came from the foundry despite being 115 years old. I have never been sitting at it cranking away thinking 'man i wish this was faster' i am instead sitting there mesmerized by the whirring gears, the genius of the cams, and the kintsugi beauty of the gold-bronze repair my dad made.