Inside the 1950s Heavy Press Program which built the giant 50,000 ton presses which helped America win the Cold War.

The title is a play on the old adage, “Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics”. I was frustrated as I was racing against the clock before I packed up my shop and moved away for a year.  When the last sequence ended in a failure I had no choice but to include it in the final video. In a way, I think it makes it stronger as too often I think mistakes are covered up.  But literally a minute after the last frame of video I started mothballing the entire shop. It was a bittersweet moment for sure and made very concrete my imminent departure for 5500 miles away

In this video I show how to find the original Public Domain source for Shorpy images and how to easily and quickly edit them with free tools for amazing results.

In this video I look at what I consider to be the world’s first modern lathe – Vaucanson’s 1751 all metal lathe.

If you want any of the historical photos I’m happy to share. They are all from the Library of Congress with edits to make them more attractive.

First build video  where I acid etch the micrometer dials

Honda has made an amazing 100 million Super Cub motorcycles, starting in 1958.