JHCC Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 I just happened across this rather mind-blowing item: a 1/14 scale working model of a Bridgeport BRJ milling machine: It turns out that this is only one of the models Mr. Jordan has built over the years. Take a look at https://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Jordan.htm for more of his work; just make sure you're sitting down first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Talk about a hobby! Thanks for the link, there are some amazing WORKING miniatures on his site. I love the shot of him milling a part for another miniature on a miniature mill. My gob is thoroughly smacked! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Facinating. I looked at the main part of the site but didn't delve into his other creations yet as I am on the road and pulled over to look at this. I would like to know how he made his miniature tooling & cutters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 Very, very carefully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anachronist58 Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Speechless, really. Robert Taylor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoGoodWithUsernames Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Wow! Quite fantastic, thanks for sharing that. Excessively large and excessively miniature things have alway been neat to see being at extreme opposite ends of the "normal". Nothing special about seeing a Bridgeport, but an 8" tall working Bridgeport? Now that's cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George N. M. Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Proves the old adages of "too much is never enough" and "anything worth doing is worth overdoing." "By hammer and hand all arts do stand." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 12, 2022 Author Share Posted May 12, 2022 There's a great quote on the Museum's home page from one Michael Dunlop: "The issue I struggle with most days in my shop is, 'When is it good enough?' Whether I’m assessing the quality of an individual part or a complete model my answer is this: It’s good enough when, based on my current ability, any further attempt to improve it will probably cause it to be damaged." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irondragon Forge ClayWorks Posted May 12, 2022 Share Posted May 12, 2022 Or if it ain't broke we will fix it till it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 Oh COME ON guys! Isn't anybody going to say SOMETHING I can disagree with so we can talk about our differences? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 14, 2022 Share Posted May 14, 2022 So you are saying you want a difference engine? How Babbagacal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Yes, wouldn't you? I wonder what Babbage would think of my lap top and 5G internet connection? Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 "Why didn't I think of that?"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 That's why we bounce ideas around here Scott, nobody's far enough out there to come up with everything. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Is Babbage on here? I finally gottcha. Took a long time though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Difference Engine are better search terms but if you combine them with Babbage it zeros you right in. The thing really worked and in some ways was more powerful and flexible than electronics. Babbage's engines weren't binary. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I want to debate this thing with you, I would probably lose in the long run, which is ok with me but I am "doing yard work right now".... Just poking good natured fun at you, my friend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Poking juicy bait at me then leaving me hanging is GOOD NATURED!? That my friend is debatable! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 I'm picking up pine. Cones right now..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Sorry, I was teasing you. Bad thing to do. I don't like when people tease me. I was just saying why someone who, according to wikipedia "originated the concept of a digital programmable computer" wouldn't say "Why didn't I think of that?" In response to your question: 16 hours ago, Frosty said: I wonder what Babbage would think of my lap top and 5G internet connection? Please forgive me, I'm feeling ornrey today and should do as we talked about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 You're good Scott, nothing to forgive, don't work yourself up over nothing. Maybe hit the garden again and relax. It's easy to imagine problems that don't exist, then they become self fulfilling prophesy. Truth is, we weren't supposed to think of things like the difference engine or quantum physics, black holes or stranger things like fried chicken and waffles! Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott NC Posted May 15, 2022 Share Posted May 15, 2022 Thanks Jerry. I'm blaming everything today on the Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse tonight. Look to the skies IFI..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted May 15, 2022 Author Share Posted May 15, 2022 Babbage tips his hat to Jacquard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 John; I like how you wove that in without looming over it! For some *real* analog goodness; look at the manual "computers" used in WWII on battleships to calculate how to aim the big guns! (They had to take the curvature of the earth into their calculations.) Talk about precision machine work! (Of course my Father used to tell me that real computer programmers used a soldering iron!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 16, 2022 Share Posted May 16, 2022 That was pretty warped Thomas. IIRC Japanese artillery was calculated with abacus and they were plenty fast and accurate. Abacus are AFIK the oldest known computer. Frosty The Lucky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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