1938 hosiery testing machine - GIF

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...295#post131030
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...140#post130313
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...213#post126424
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...668#post111174
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...217#post115983

That's a monster machine — for stretching nylons, one at a time. Old timers overbuilt the heck out of most things.