Tinkering

[Geof]

Couple of interesting articles:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1257...nDepthCarousel

http://www.onpointradio.org/2009/11/...and-innovation

I wonder how many of the people involved in these know about CNCzone which I would think is probably Tinkerer Central.

[fizzissist]

Thanks for the WSJ link, Geof, it turns out to be quite useful in a conversation we're having right now at work!

....Don't know if you've seen this, but here's some tinkering gone extreme!!

http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/Tomlinson.htm

[Geof]

Not that specific one but I had seen mention of it some place I think; the Napier Deltic rings a bell.

I agree it is hobby craft gone berserk but not much more so than the model steam engine fanatics. I spend/spent so much time making neat mechanical contraptions for my business I never wanted to do it in what spare time I had.