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How to carve limestone with homebrew machines
This is interesting.
Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida, where he built a castle from coral limestone. Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also brings out the conspiracy theorists. But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to reconstruct it for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM tschus pyotr -- pyotr filipivich. Discussing the decline in the US's tech edge, James Niccol once wrote "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." |
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:41:54 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote: This is interesting. Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida, where he built a castle from coral limestone. Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also brings out the conspiracy theorists. But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to reconstruct it for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM tschus pyotr Will wait until my days off to watch a 30 minute video. Have read about the Coral Castle before. Not sure if this is mentioned but one of the 'perfectly balanced' pivoting rocks was later found to be mounted on a hidden truck axle. Along the same theme, moving huge blocks of concrete by hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4 only six minutes. Actually bought the guys CD about ten years ago to see all the ones that were not on You Tube. Warning, the wind noise in some of his videos is awful! He needs one of those foam microphone covers. -- William |
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How to carve limestone with homebrew machines
William Bagwell on Sat, 21 Jan 2017
05:35:08 -0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:41:54 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: This is interesting. Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida, where he built a castle from coral limestone. Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also brings out the conspiracy theorists. But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to reconstruct it for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM tschus pyotr Will wait until my days off to watch a 30 minute video. I skipped through it back and forth while doing other stuff. Have read about the Coral Castle before. Not sure if this is mentioned but one of the 'perfectly balanced' pivoting rocks was later found to be mounted on a hidden truck axle. he mentions that 'even the movies show that "The floating stones" have visible rollers under them'. Along the same theme, moving huge blocks of concrete by hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4 only six minutes. Actually bought the guys CD about ten years ago to see all the ones that were not on You Tube. Warning, the wind noise in some of his videos is awful! He needs one of those foam microphone covers. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." |
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On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 05:35:08 -0500, William Bagwell
wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:41:54 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: This is interesting. Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida, where he built a castle from coral limestone. Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also brings out the conspiracy theorists. But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to reconstruct it for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM tschus pyotr Will wait until my days off to watch a 30 minute video. Have read about the Coral Castle before. Not sure if this is mentioned but one of the 'perfectly balanced' pivoting rocks was later found to be mounted on a hidden truck axle. Along the same theme, moving huge blocks of concrete by hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4 only six minutes. Cool video. I saw a short vid on Coral Castle a long while back. Some kind of Bermuda Triangle film, IIRC. Actually bought the guys CD about ten years ago to see all the ones that were not on You Tube. Warning, the wind noise in some of his videos is awful! He needs one of those foam microphone covers. Almost everyone on Youtube needs those covers, but the majority of filming nowaday is done via phones, where there is no hope of a foam cover. There's a niche which could be filled! And we haven't discussed the need for filmmakers to have a steady hand and to pay attention to what they're filming. Gawd, so many of those films just purely SUCK. -- There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.* The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.* We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities.* We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. --Theodore Roosevelt |
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How to carve limestone with homebrew machines
Larry Jaques on Sat, 21 Jan 2017
10:46:45 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: On Sat, 21 Jan 2017 05:35:08 -0500, William Bagwell wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2017 13:41:54 -0800, pyotr filipivich wrote: This is interesting. Ed Leedskalnin was from Latvia, moved eventually to Homestead Florida, where he built a castle from coral limestone. Of course, "how did he do that?" is always a good question. Ed would say "I understand the laws of weight and leverage and I know the secrets of the people who built the pyramids." Which of course also brings out the conspiracy theorists. But this guy gives a good explanation of how it worked. "Simple Engineering". Some serious metal working here if you want to reconstruct it for yourself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoCuDnmtyM tschus pyotr Will wait until my days off to watch a 30 minute video. Have read about the Coral Castle before. Not sure if this is mentioned but one of the 'perfectly balanced' pivoting rocks was later found to be mounted on a hidden truck axle. Along the same theme, moving huge blocks of concrete by hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCvx5gSnfW4 only six minutes. Cool video. I saw a short vid on Coral Castle a long while back. Some kind of Bermuda Triangle film, IIRC. Actually bought the guys CD about ten years ago to see all the ones that were not on You Tube. Warning, the wind noise in some of his videos is awful! He needs one of those foam microphone covers. Almost everyone on Youtube needs those covers, but the majority of filming nowaday is done via phones, where there is no hope of a foam cover. There's a niche which could be filled! And we haven't discussed the need for filmmakers to have a steady hand and to pay attention to what they're filming. Gawd, so many of those films just purely SUCK. Even the ones with a "professional" set up tend to suck. My Son-in-law is in teaching, and one of those is the recording of videos. And how the really good ones - well, let us say that all those casual spontaneous comments, they're scripted and rehearsed. -- pyotr filipivich "With Age comes Wisdom. Although more often, Age travels alone." |
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On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 09:43:25 -0800, pyotr filipivich
wrote: Larry Jaques on Sat, 21 Jan 2017 10:46:45 -0800 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following: And we haven't discussed the need for filmmakers to have a steady hand and to pay attention to what they're filming. Gawd, so many of those films just purely SUCK. Even the ones with a "professional" set up tend to suck. My Agreed. A braindead idiot with a $4k camera is still an idiot. Son-in-law is in teaching, and one of those is the recording of videos. And how the really good ones - well, let us say that all those casual spontaneous comments, they're scripted and rehearsed. But of course. Professionalism includes how closely you pay attention to WTF is going on. Remember the filming of Bill Clinton on Normandy beach "all by himself, with his thoughts.", with the shadows of half a dozen torsos in the picture? Oops! And that's how we end up with a guy shooting 200 uninterrupted shots from a rifle with a 30 round mag, even when they have a guy on-set with the word "Continuity" on his jacket. -- There is s no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American.* The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.* We are a nation, not a hodge-podge of foreign nationalities.* We are a people, and not a polyglot boarding house. --Theodore Roosevelt |
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