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Yup beautifully crafted piece of work!!
Park's workmanship and all the others on the "CRAFTSMANSHIP Museum" is stunning !!
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I, entering my dotage, am not enthused by such marvels. Maybe actually seeing them is still encouraging to me , but working to that micro level is for others. Why build a mchine that is difficult to see, let alone use?
BTW by your intro "For the miniature minded....", Willie, I thought you were specifically thinking of me.
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(07-27-2012, 07:24 PM)stevec Wrote: BTW by your intro "For the miniature minded....", Willie, I thought you were specifically thinking of me.
Steve, to quote a line from "Men in Black"..... "When will you humans learn that size doesn't matter?"
A former marksmanship coach of mine always told me "Aim small - MISS small."
I try to apply that to machining skills as well. If the tolerance on a part needs to be +/- .010" I'll usually end up .025" over or under.
If the tolerance is only +/- .0005" I'll normally only miss the mark by .0015".
See how much better that is?
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(07-27-2012, 06:36 PM)Highpower Wrote: (07-27-2012, 01:51 PM)TomG Wrote: While we are on the subject of miniature modeling, has anyone see the work of this guy?
My. Y. Park
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I've seen that before. It's beyond my comprehension.
I know of a guy that (re)-built one of those, but on a somewhat larger scale. You could eat off of any surface on that machine inside or out.
Just the sound of that Merlin engine running gave me goose bumps.
Sadly due to health issues he had to sell it last year.
P-51
They do make a distinctive sound specially when at full power
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It is amazing but all the screws ar clockwise threaded. Most screws on a lathe are counter clock. It would have been nicer to be just like a large lathe. Not taking anything from the project, but the man had the skill to make his own taps and screws. That all.
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I can't see the original post because there are a lot of sites blocked on my military satellite internet but I have seen the Mr. Y. Park photos before. My dad also sent me a video once of a guy that had recreated a Ferrari race car to scale and it actually ran. It was about 3-4' long judging by the youtube video and it sounded so awesome! There is also a series of videos on Youtube of a guy that made a scale Gravedigger monster truck that runs. The sound of a TINY supercharged V8 is surprisingly close to the full scale item!
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Ok, so tiny is kind of an exaggeration perhaps. The engine is probably close to 10" long and 14" tall judging by seeing the guy next to it. I really thought it would be more high pitched or something. It really made me want to machine a running scale P-51 with my dad!
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