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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob

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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob



while a wooden motorcycle would be very cool, I suspect that there
would be some serious engineering difficulties involved in making one
that could handle the stresses of normal riding.

A PC is more like furniture, in that we all have one in our house.
beige boxes don't necessarily work with everyone's decor- and neither
do macintosh disneyland colors.

the one I linked to is particularly well done, and made to work with
the owner's other furniture.

so no, it's not about boredom.

Fantastic! It's a great blend of new and old technologies.

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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob



while a wooden motorcycle would be very cool, I suspect that there
would be some serious engineering difficulties involved in making one
that could handle the stresses of normal riding.


One fellow I saw working at the WW club in Vienna, VA (since moved
to Springfield) was restoring a wooden automobile. It appeared that
at least some of the frame was wood.

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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob



while a wooden motorcycle would be very cool, I suspect that there
would be some serious engineering difficulties involved in making one
that could handle the stresses of normal riding.


One fellow I saw working at the WW club in Vienna, VA (since moved
to Springfield) was restoring a wooden automobile. It appeared that
at least some of the frame was wood.


considering that automobiles are adapted from wagons, this is not
surprising. I'd even be unsurprised to learn that there were early
motorcycles with wooden frame components, though I've never heard of
one. early motor vehicles were low performance, low horsepower
devices. a wooden motorcycle with more than say, 5 HP. *would*
surprise me.

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One fellow I saw working at the WW club in Vienna, VA (since moved
to Springfield) was restoring a wooden automobile. It appeared that
at least some of the frame was wood.


That's why Henry Ford came up with the idea of charcoal briquettes. He
too had to find a use for his scraps.

"EVER BOUGHT Kingsford charcoal briquettes? They're another
Ford-orchestrated invention. By 1923, Henry Ford had developed several
lumbering plants and sawmills in the Iron Mountain area of Michigan's
Upper Peninsula. The area was incorporated as the Village of Kingsford
that year, after E.G. Kingsford, Iron Mountain's authorized Ford dealer
-- who happened to be married to Ford's cousin, according to Ford Bryan,
author of "Beyond the Model T, The Other Ventures of Henry Ford."
Leftover hardwood chips were processed with starch and compressed into
about 100 tons per day of charcoal briquettes. They were sold by Ford
dealers all over the United States. The briquettes are still made and
sold by Kingsford Product Co. of Oakland, Calif. The company is now
owned by the Clorox Corp."

See:

http://www.freep.com/money/autonews/facts9_20030609.htm

--
Jack Novak
Buffalo, NY - USA

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considering that automobiles are adapted from wagons, this is not
surprising. I'd even be unsurprised to learn that there were early
motorcycles with wooden frame components, though I've never heard of
one. early motor vehicles were low performance, low horsepower
devices. a wooden motorcycle with more than say, 5 HP. *would*
surprise me.

I grew up on a farm where almost all the farm equipment was originally horse
drawn. It had all been converted over to be drawn with a tractor. Our manure
wagon had a big steel seat on it mounted on a huge hunk of bent steel that
worked as a great shock absorber-spring.

We actually had people who wanted to ride our manure wagon because they
wanted to experience a little bit of horse drawn technology nostalgia.

All the equipment had metal wheels, no rubber tires. The wheels were all
steel.

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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob



while a wooden motorcycle would be very cool, I suspect that there
would be some serious engineering difficulties involved in making one
that could handle the stresses of normal riding.

A PC is more like furniture, in that we all have one in our house.
beige boxes don't necessarily work with everyone's decor- and neither
do macintosh disneyland colors.

the one I linked to is particularly well done, and made to work with
the owner's other furniture.

so no, it's not about boredom.

I didn't mean your post was boring. I meant the maker must have been bored
to have chosen the subject. I did not realize it was actual working PC. I
thought it was an art object. My reference to the Harley was meant as an art
object - replica. I've seen such a thing and it looked like it should be in
the Smithsonian.

Bob

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true boredom. I can see a wooden Harley but a PC??????

Bob


Hey now, you've given me an idea. Full scale wooden Harley painted just
like my real Harley for my grandson to play on.

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