sublime machinery

http://www.nflibrary.ca/nfplindex/data/4/2/340742-570104.JPG

http://www.enerpac.com/files/imagecache/projects_lightbox_landscape/projectimages/dragline.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5UTuShDnfSE/TaG1bxN70WI/AAAAAAAAAhk/XnVZJ4LJtww/s1600/the_largest_container_ship_6.jpg

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/2011/05/cycloid1.gif

http://www.l6666.cn/Article/UploadFiles/200904/20090403142658531.jpg

http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r293/VIEWLINER/PTA/SG.jpg

http://www.goodnewsshutup.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/bagger288.jpg

http://withfriendship.com/images/i/44255/Bagger-288-pic.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/STS-114_rollout.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2355/2261905391_9e622d172d.jpg

wtf is that gigantic rotavator that folds up into a multipurpose robot thing?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_HHNk27nAIUg/S9GNIOZtI8I/AAAAAAAAAB4/etgMaU3HPOg/s1600/Jahre_Viking%5B1%5D.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagger_288 xp

http://cache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/lhc_08_01/lhc1.jpg

Large Hadron Collider (@The Boston Globe's Big Picture)

I tihnk the second pic is a 'shop though

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5207/5340217959_17c7b26a61.jpg

scoops up bulldozers by mistake
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_T2buuNUUNTA/TO_oJ9PlZlI/AAAAAAAAD0I/XhMnsX3Jxv0/s1600/World%2527s_Largest_Digging_Machine12.jpg

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/02_animation.gif

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/11/10/1257858784566/A-cooling-tower-and-elect-003.jpg

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/04_animation.gif

http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/upload/2010/06/my_10_favorite_mechanical_animation/06_animation.gif

fuckin love wankel roatary engines i do

rotary ones too

rx-7 was my dream car as a young lad

a friend has one, always seems to be in the garage. costs a bomb to run. nice idea in theory though, the engine is tiny.

http://www.churchmusicdublin.org/files/inside/organ.png

http://blogs.princeton.edu/great-immensity/images/ulstein-x-bow-container-ship.png

http://i.imgur.com/6F6rj.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/9pKnh.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/GA2zn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/InWMk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bn5cm.jpg

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http://i.imgur.com/Mq65P.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3438/3394645652_3d3044ec40_b.jpg

107" telescope, mcdonald obs., tx. best.

http://www.psm-sensors.co.uk/images/atlantic_dawn.jpg

http://tractorspares.ie/images/MF135.jpg

^ i was in either one or t'other iirc

made you a video of me walking round the 107" telescope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGTt9_fg2wQ

awes

http://youtu.be/_uHZKyEiy-w

25 gears with a ratio of 120/14. the first gear moves at 79.2 RPM. The last wheel will make one revolution in five hundred and ninety-four billion years. So it doesn't matter that it's embedded in concrete

Do a search for 'Arthur Ganson' for more cool machine art things.

does that have a purpose? aside from being a+ cool, obv

That was my first zero views video, caek.

uploaded 4 u

This thread is fucking fantastic.

so jealous of caek!! what am I doing that that is not a part of my life. it looks like you're in a jame bond movie.

http://i.imgur.com/QX5wa.gif

Britney can i get your sister jame bond Email

i had no idea http://vimeo.com/9388444

ship carry ships

http://i.imgur.com/ZuuW0.jpg

...

ime forgings normally have less surface porosity, finer grain structure, higher tensile strength, better fatigue life/strength, and greater ductility than castings

yup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_hardening

y'all need to watch more Science Channel

What is it a wheel for?

Typical train wheels are cast as one piece but the load bearing bit, the tyre, is a band that is added later. I remember them showing a short piece about this on Blue Peter about 100 years ago. They heat it up to get it on and it contacts as it cools. Pic here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel

That goes on to say that they sometimes don't use tyres any more. And one of those pictures suggests that the flange is part of the tyre.

garu g to thread

It's so funny that you posted that bc my dad at Christmas spent about 45 mins telling me about being in an open-face forging operation in the mid-80s before it went out of business, and how the steam power hammers were 3 stories tall -- one story underground and two above. And the shop had 6 of them. He remembered a lot of details and they made flanges much like the one in that video, by his description. Only without forklifts.

I thought blacksmiths shops were supposed to be dark so you could tell how hot the metal was by the color it glowed. (This was confirmed for me by an actual blacksmith last week.) But I suppose needs must.

The one detail that wasn't in the Chinese video is that my dad says the scale--the oxidized impurities that flake off after each hammer blow--has to be swept away or else it gets stamped back into the metal. So a guy with a broom would sweep the surface in a synchronized pattern between hammer blows but every time the hot metal would make his broom catch on fire, so he'd throw it into a bucket of water. And then again. And again. Etc.

It sounded very exciting, albeit noisy.

ha! wow

I correct myself, it's called open-die forging according to the internet, because there's no recessed shape that you're forcing it into. Instead the metal is taking whatever shape it will under the force of the hammer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forging#Open-die_drop_forging

Anyway he said it stopped being desirable when the Japanese (I think) invented a kind of steel that could be stamped out and have the same strength and grain characteristics that had been achieved by forging without all the mess and labor and, well, actual forging. So the operation was shuttered before the end of the '80s and all those men who had made their lifetimes' craft of that work were unemployable. And it will never come back.

Dinner conversation at my house is just riveting obv.

I see what you did there, dad.

this is extremely messed up and should be illegal

https://twitter.com/MachinePix/status/833764654308405248

https://i.imgur.com/Mp40luu.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VMQRhWGflg

I used to get queasy working at 50 ft type heights, jeez imagine being an ant on that site. I could just imagine you have broke much sweat completing some work at absolutely terrifying heights, and then you take a week off sick before the clerk of works can hand you a snag sheet!

thred:

An excavator mulcher can quickly clear land. pic.twitter.com/hf1lbvJaBC

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) February 19, 2016

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http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flip-ocean-research-platform-scripps?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=atlas-page

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“Very quickly, it became clear that nobody wanted to go back at night because FLIP was not only more comfortable, but it provided a good platform for working 24 hours a day,” says Pinkel. “When things were working, you didn’t want to leave your experiment to go back to a mothership.”

I'm picturing the shuttle ship showing up at the end of the day when they first started the project and one of the scientists sadly mumbling "but I like it here!"

love that this account has got v salty since the election

Automated polymer binding foam agent sprayers reduce coal dust coming off of coal transport trains. Luckily, coal will soon be replaced by cleaner, more modern, and more efficient sources of energy that create more jobs. pic.twitter.com/P9t6biEDD6

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

haha literally just seen that, there was a retweeted response too

lol kbye https://t.co/S6XeRDUwLi

— Machine Pix (@MachinePix) November 20, 2017

bah doesn't show the reply tweet. Here it is

This guy is in total meltdown. WAS an interesting account. Going off on politics? Who cares? Bye guy.https://t.co/HxClhwbx0y

— Mike Chillit (@MikeChillit) November 20, 2017

mike failing to live up to his name

^^ Dude has made half a dozen tweets about missing Malaysian Air flight in the past hour.

Mr. Chillit, not Mr. Spiralli.

i have also narrowed down possible location of the wreckage to somewhere in the pacific, i just don't like to brag about it on the timeline

Just awesome pic.twitter.com/WFD6xlxX9d

— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) March 5, 2018

isambard kingdom brunel fever dream

https://i.imgur.com/PUOMoKk.gif

Decades worth of layered paint was peeled, chiseled, and sawed off of Tufts' iconic cannon, which students have used as a kind of billboard since 1977, via @BostonGlobe https://t.co/jG5hlz7Iln pic.twitter.com/E5yF873XaJ

— Tufts University (@TuftsUniversity) September 8, 2018

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm3nzIAhxeM/?taken-by=otbp_cookiecutters

Love that. "Damn that sound is so satisfying" otm

a couple more here - https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2018/09/cookie-cutters/

50Hzと60Hzの違い． pic.twitter.com/9HkISxT7CZ

— デッドセクション (@ACDCSection) October 3, 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DqJMpq6W4AAB9BH.jpg

https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Bucket-Excavator-Construction/dp/B01CU9X8AC/

wau

It’s this mechanical scale model of a three-ring circus, currently on display at Rosebery’s auction house in West Norwood. @roseberysltd pic.twitter.com/HsW47M1YSZ

— Lev Parikian (@LevParikian) November 17, 2018

to continue on a (lol) micro scale, this model of a circus is quite mesmerising tbh!

Breaking up is hard to do. Manitoba uses these 20,000 kg Amphibex machines to break up channels in the frozen river and speed up spring thaw. pic.twitter.com/eZhorWMFlL

— CBC Manitoba (@CBCManitoba) March 12, 2019

I don’t want to overexcite you too much... but here’s an exclusive shot I just took of the settings available on the back of a traffic light. pic.twitter.com/M1bdGxgDIv

— Will Freeman (@spadgy_OTA) April 12, 2019

will this work?

Interesting lock pic.twitter.com/TzfDUfOqcN

— Universal Curiosity (@UniverCurious) December 27, 2019

don't see why not, just an overly complicated latch isn't it?

I would think thought that excessive force would damage the ring?

(I meant the magical auto linking of the tweet)

lol

Symphonie mécanique (1955) by Jean Mitry, with soundtrack by Pierre Boulez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltWMF-YA5Mc

PENETRATION pic.twitter.com/22gWE5sU85

— kissmemore (@snoomr) May 21, 2021

Marbles are made on a marble run?! https://t.co/oBySHoNRky pic.twitter.com/jYIRzhUmNm

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) March 14, 2022

I bet half of those steps aren't even necessary... it just looks cool.

"Restless", a mechanical sculpture by Tobias Bradford. pic.twitter.com/sDkJVwbaL1

— MachinePix (@MachinePix) January 17, 2024