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Always watch for and save old machines

submitted by Drstrangestgov to whatever 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 09:15:04 ago (+56/-0)     (gab.com)

https://gab.com/macks_belts/posts/114143926659192332/media/1?timeline=video-clips

We have to rebuild our industrial base from scratch. Again. We can do it using the same machines we did it with last time. They did the job once already.


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[ - ] Puller_of_Noses 9 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 09:50:06 ago (+9/-0)

I have a pair of boots from a company in Lewiston, Maine that I still wear daily. They're more than 40 years old. They're pretty worn out, but they fit like soft slippers now.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 6 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 10:48:28 ago (+6/-0)

For some, yes. For others, well, I think we can build better now.

A lot better.

[ - ] HeyJames 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:58:11 ago (+1/-0)

Newer stuff is fantastic. It's really just the parts quality and greed of manufacturers monopolizing repairs and making them expensive that gives them a bad rap. Right to repair laws and higher quality domestic parts would make them superior in every way, literally.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 4 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 12:52:11 ago (+4/-0)

After WW2, kikes stole Germany's machines, mostly. I worked in a Dunlop factory in the 80s, and some of the machines were 100 years old, still great.

[ - ] Rotteuxx 3 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:30:55 ago (+3/-0)

So many conventional mills & lathes have been melted for scrap since cnc made its way into the machining world, it's awful really.

The real issue though is having to rebuild bigger machinery from factories that has been disassembled & sold to 3rd world shit holes. That takes time, lots of time...

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 16:39:01 ago (+2/-0)

We have all the time in the world

[ - ] lolxd 3 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 13:23:16 ago (+3/-0)

The companies that made all those cool things that never broke, moved on to selling things that cost 1000x more that because your dollar is worthless compared to what it was then.

[ - ] Love240 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 14:48:34 ago (+2/-0)

Worth 1/1000th even!

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 16:40:25 ago (+1/-0)

This guy gets it

[ - ] inaminit 3 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 10:44:44 ago (+3/-0)

I once told a company I'd work for free just so I could have access to their turn-of-the-century woodworking tools... They had a bandsaw with a 36" drum patented in 1898 mounted with an 8 foot work table... You could put a 1/8th" blade on that bad boy and cut a 1/4" dowel out of a 24" tall block of wood.... Try that shit with a dinky DeWalt or Delta and see what you get.

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 10:57:12 ago (+2/-0)

Woooow. Yeah I'm poor too from doing stuff like that my whole life. Totally worth it.

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 14:09:25 ago (+2/-0)

"Belts under $150"

Belts haven't been much of a thing in my life, but I might pay up to $12. The problem with "American Made" is that now it means ludicrously expensive.

https://www.temu.com/mens-full-grain-leather-casual--jeans-belts-handmade-men-leather-belt-with-gift-box-g-601099702498153.html?

$5.53

Here's the competition. They might not last a lifetime and aren't quite as fancy, but it's $5.53 versus $135.00 for the cheapest Macks Belt. At that point, you're basically supporting someone's Historic Machines hobby.

[ - ] HeyJames 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:52:15 ago (+1/-0)

I have seen American made leather belts for $30-40. If you're comparing that to a $5 temu belt then that's actually pretty laughable

[ - ] Sector2 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 18:54:36 ago (+1/-0)

[ - ] dalai_llama 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 12:30:30 ago (+2/-0)

That's a good looking belt.

[ - ] HeyJames 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:45:13 ago (+1/-0)*

You have to be an expert at tuning, adjusting, and rebuilding with those old machines. The newer computer driven stuff, any retard can operate. The old stuff was designed for a higher level of training, both in operations and safety.

That being said, newer electronic controls are not a bad thing if they're executed with common sense and designed to be durable with good materials. Sadly this is not the case, as it's all Chinese horse shit components.

People who brag about old school machines have probably never had much experience with them. You've got to truly be an expert to work with the old iron and honestly most people can't handle that level of responsibility and training.

[ - ] Peleg 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 19:28:20 ago (+1/-0)

Well, What about That. I'm an Expert!

The company I work for has machines that are as old as dirt. I'm very good at keeping them running. We have one machine that we called the company that made it to come and do a rebuild. Some dei retard hit it with a forklift! The tech who came to do the job said that he had only ever seen one like ours and it was back at their corporate office in the museum section! LOL!

I can make that baby sing!

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 16:38:24 ago (+0/-0)

Muh metric system dough!

[ - ] HeyJames 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 17:03:46 ago (+0/-0)

What you said makes no sense.

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 17:14:08 ago (+0/-0)

Everything new is metric.

[ - ] HeyJames 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 17:17:22 ago (+1/-0)

Ohh yeah a lot of the new stuff is that's for sure. Cause it's Chinese CRAP

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 18:51:03 ago (+0/-0)

These cheap lead painted chinesium products are some kind of warfare. I don't know what it's called. Consumer warfare?

[ - ] HeyJames 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 19:08:00 ago (+1/-0)

It's called self-enrichment vis short term profit at the expense of the company's (and country) long term health. Jack Welch of GE started this trend of aggressive cost cutting by outsourcing and laying off talent. It enriched him and the shareholders so everyone copied it. Now GE is a shell of its former self. The same thing is happening to Boeing.

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 12, 2025 01:22:58 ago (+0/-0)

I wondered if all the dei incompetence was a cover for looting.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 14:47:30 ago (+1/-0)

Why isn't 'becoming somebody who makes these machines' a thing in the US?

Becoming a doctor is a thing, programmer, engineer, astronaut etc. But not creating the machines behind automated factories?

[ - ] namefagsrgay 2 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:06:21 ago (+2/-0)

because the us is a gay zogged shithole run by faggots.

[ - ] Sector2 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 15:13:57 ago (+0/-0)

Is there a profitable market for them? If there were, someone would be making and selling them. International trade would probably have to die before making simple products becomes more than a niche/elite hobby project in the US. These belts, for example, are 27-40 times more expensive than 'comparable/equally functional' belts made in China.

[ - ] CoronaHoax 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 17:01:18 ago (+1/-0)

The people who make them probably get some pretty high paychecks if they’re salary

[ - ] Drstrangestgov [op] 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 16:39:42 ago (+0/-0)

Because nobody's asked me to yet

[ - ] TheNoticing 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 17:37:05 ago (+0/-0)

Possibly because of patents.

[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 0 points 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 23:40:13 ago (+0/-0)

Go to trade school.

[ - ] registereduser 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 10:09:31 ago (+1/-0)

I have a saw set, it is worth a thousand machines.

Screws are garbage.

[ - ] BushChuck5002 1 point 3 monthsMar 11, 2025 09:51:56 ago (+3/-2)

Very cool.

[ - ] puremadness 0 points 3 monthsMar 12, 2025 10:07:33 ago (+0/-0)

chip fabs are REQUIRED
the next war isnt on foot