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Through the eye of a needle
« on: November 04, 2008, 05:43:33 pm »
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2008, 05:55:43 pm »
Absolutely amazing  :-))
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2008, 06:37:55 pm »
Incredible... :-)) :-))
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2008, 07:53:19 pm »
I quit, I thought that 1/4" to the foot was small, hell I wasn't even close. Wonder what kind of wonderful things that he could do if he worked in a scale that he could see with out a microscope. Just amazing.

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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2008, 07:59:26 pm »
I wonder if he does a model haystack?  %)
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #5 on: November 05, 2008, 08:52:25 am »
This is Willard - he is an aircraft modeler and flies with us at Nottingham most months in the winter - lovely person!
You would not believe his lightweight rubber models - they fly at less than walking speed!
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #6 on: November 05, 2008, 10:39:09 am »
Talking of all things small....I remember back in the 1950s, there was a steel tube manufacturing company named 'Talbot Stead', located in the Walsall area of what is now the West Midlands.
A firm in America also making steel tubes, sent Talbot Stead a sample of the their smallest tube that could be made.
Talbot Stead produced a tube....fitted it 'inside' the tube made in America....and sent it back.... Mick  ;)
 
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2008, 12:37:14 pm »
It is a good story but may be apocryphal as I have heard it attributed to "Fine Tubes" of Roborough, Plymouth.

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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #8 on: December 10, 2008, 10:14:45 am »
So the guy can make really big needles!
That some one handed him $20,000,000. for them is even more incredible!
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #9 on: December 11, 2008, 12:22:58 am »
Similar story about a US company that made a micro drill bit, sent samples to Rolls Royce and they bored through it and sent it back.....
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Re: Through the eye of a needle
« Reply #10 on: December 11, 2008, 08:04:42 am »
Or the smallest drilled hole ever - returned with a bush in it.

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