What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor The first thing that comes to mind is something my grandfather made in his youth. A hand made 'do nothing machine'. You turn the handle and the things move back and forth. It still fulfills its original purpose perfectly to this day. It's probably 70 or 80 years old.
photo is example, I'm away from the actual one atm
edit: second is photo of the one I have
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
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I have a working Sunbeam Mixmaster, from (I think) the 1960s. It's a little grungy which means it's been used a lot! -
What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor from time to time I use this phone, c. 1910s, and it still works!
No one expects it when you say "hold on, my microphone isn't working with Teams today, let me dial in by phone", and pull this guy out.
(The telegraph switchboard behind it is even older and probably still works too, but I rarely have occasion to switch telegraph lines these days.)
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor Two things I use daily that are both like new:
1976 Amana microwave oven
1936 Royal typewriter, dvorak layout -
@NanoRaptor Two things I use daily that are both like new:
1976 Amana microwave oven
1936 Royal typewriter, dvorak layout@animone I am agog at the idea of a dvorak typewriter. That's so cool.
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@animone I am agog at the idea of a dvorak typewriter. That's so cool.
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor I think that would be my 50's Husqvarna sewing machine
https://youtu.be/wxj_Wr8awlE - I think the only non-original part in it is the top thread guide, which broke so I 3D printed a replacement. I recently acquired another (free, thrown away) 50's sewing machine, by the way, see picture. I love them.
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@NanoRaptor that’d be my Ensign Selfix 420, a medium-format folding camera produced sometime in the mid/late 1940s
(pictured: the camera itself & a recent photograph taken with it)
@luna @NanoRaptor Pretty sure there's one just like it in our co-op thrift exchange - should I take it...? No idea how to take pictures with such a thing
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@NanoRaptor a drafting compass from the 1820s
@rose_alibi @NanoRaptor Oh, right - I also have a lovely compass set, which originally came from a school somewhere in East Germany, from before the Iron Curtain fell
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What's the oldest piece of machinery that you own that still works, for its original purpose, in (mostly!) its original state?
@NanoRaptor Oh, also, a late 60's Gibson SG guitar - does that count as machinery...?
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I have a working Sunbeam Mixmaster, from (I think) the 1960s. It's a little grungy which means it's been used a lot!@kerrytani @NanoRaptor I still have the same hand mixer I bought when I moved out of my parents' house, all I had to do was replace the power chord, which broke - not as vintage as this, but still about 35 years old...
