Quote Originally Posted by delta tango View Post
I confess to envying to anyone owning a METAL LATHE -- but, things CAN be made with scrap aluminum, a drill press, a drill press vise, cutting bits, FILES, SANDPAPER,
and LOTS & LOTS of PATIENCE !!
Yes indeed. Our ancestors did some amazing things with the tools they had access to. I found the book "Finding Longitude" to be fascinating. There are a few books with similar titles. The one I read was written by Dava Sobel, with forward by Neil Armstrong.

The most fascinating thing to me is how he was able to conceive, design, obtain materials, then fabricate a working marine chronometer that can keep accurate time on board a rolling, pitching, bouncing ship. A major undertaking in the early 1700's.