On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 22:35:21 -0500, "Jim Wilkins"
wrote:

"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sat, 30 Dec 2017 04:16:53 -0500, Michael A Terrell
wrote:

http://englishrussia.com/2015/09/16/leningrad-huge-turbines-plant/

Wow, one helluva big place with big tools, big parts, and gigantic
assemblies. Fun tour!

Another page from that site which is cool:
http://englishrussia.com/2012/04/22/...guns-are-made/
Were those flash suppressors on the ends, or combo noise
suppressor/flash suppressor?

That reminds me of the story of the Soviet nail factory that satisfied
a year's production tonnage requirement by making one enormous spike.

I'll bet that didn't go over well. They risked the ire of the
carpenters, with their weapons of mass construction.

--
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark.

In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and
the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish
and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but
never have been able to reach.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real,
it is possible, it is yours.
-- Ayn Rand