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A Question that must be asked!!

posted 18 years ago by glenn-gallagher
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WHO MAKES THE MACHINES THAT MACHINE ALL THE THINGS ON THE SHOW. It boggles the mind! Is there some sort of unmoved machine from which bread machines and cd machines stem from!! In the episode where they made precision cutting tools they said the bits they made were used in the automotive and aerospace industry and also in industrial factories......then....who.....made the first precision drill bit!! Did the machine that makes the precision bits get made with lesser bits. AHHH

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[–] tgilly 18 years ago

I wondered the same thing when I was a kid. If machines make machines, how did they make the first machine. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Think about it this way, you can make things by hand or make them by machine. The simple answer is that the first machines where made by hand. Machinery was hand crafted to make processes automated. Today a few simple machines make all of the rest of the machinery. These machines include but are not limited to drill presses, milling machines (computer controlled and manual), lathes, etc. Each generation of machinery made by older machines usually make better machines for the future. Sort of like evolution of anything else. The really confusing part is that it is highly likely that a milling machine is used in the process of making other milling machines. The same with lathes and drill presses etc.

[–] KAnnD86 18 years ago

I wonder that too sometimes. It's weird to think about.

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[–] podracer96 18 years ago

Here's something to think about:

How does a crane that's used to make skyscrapers get to be as tall as the skyscrapers it's building?

I already know the answer, but it's a fun question. :)

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[–] MrSamsonite 18 years ago

I actually went on their website and suggested that they have an episode where they show how they make the machines. I think some of the machines are amazing. They will probably never air it though

[–] kelani 18 years ago

That'd be a hard episode to do, because there are thousands of different machines made by thousands of different manufacturers, most of which specialize in one or a handful of products. Take any tool you have in your garage and there's one or more manufacturers of the corresponding industrial variant of that tool. Grouping them all into one 10 minute segment would be impossible.

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[–] ArizonaKnightWolf 17 years ago

They had an episode that showed the machines that make the machines!! Basically it's just a highly adaptable machine with about a billion changeable parts that can be re-configured to make just about any part they need to make another machine. Like most of the segments, it was highly informative and entertaining.
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[–] mlr12922 17 years ago

I would like to see how they make the 30 or 60 ton pots they use in the steel foundries.

[–] awilab85 17 years ago

I have been thinking the same thing!