Almond Noisless Right Angle Drive

[Subdeacon Joe]

Late 1800S

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[watab kid]

those were the days of machinists doing great things , 

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

7 hours ago, watab kid said:

those were the days of machinists doing great things , 

That thing is positively hypnotic.  You could lose yourself watching it.  

[Subdeacon Joe]

I showed that first short video to my wife and she said, "What am I looking at?" so I  told her, "A right angle,  gearless drive. "

 

"No.  What's it do?"

 

"It takes power from this direction (hand motions),  and makes it go this direction (more hand motions). "

 

(in somewhat irked tones)"What  does it DO?"

 

"You have a shop with a belt drive going this way, but you need a driven belt going at right angles to that to drive something else."

[watab kid]

11 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

That thing is positively hypnotic.  You could lose yourself watching it.  

often i find myself imagining another path in life in another time - that might be it , but the days of thinking that way are way long gone , ive had a good and productive life in the path i chose , but sometimes i wonder ..................