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  1. Cool Cement Mixer Bearings

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  2. Osborne Firefinder - video

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  6. Home Built Welding Fume extractor

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  7. Extra large Vernier calipers - photo

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  9. Bolt, nut, and washer pants button - GIF

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  10. Retracting door chain - GIF

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  11. Dutch F-16 shoots itself during training - photos

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  12. Swivel jaw vise - GIF

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  13. 1957 bakery driveway car turntable - photo

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  14. Portable straw-powered boiler - GIF and video

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  16. 5,500 ton crane hook - GIF

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  17. Excavator loader climbing hopper car - photo

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  18. Magazine-fed hog ring pliers - GIF

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