Interesting, but too artsy and less informative for my taste. Obviously done by a journalist, not an engineer. I would prefer a how-to manual in video form, but then anyone who was truly interested in making them can pretty much just look at a magazine and figure it out?
Yeah, a middling tinker might even be able to make the body a meamless one-piece, using varying sizes of simple round and rectangular mandrels, on his front stoop.
May 8th, 2014 at 1:55 am
Interesting, but too artsy and less informative for my taste. Obviously done by a journalist, not an engineer. I would prefer a how-to manual in video form, but then anyone who was truly interested in making them can pretty much just look at a magazine and figure it out?
May 8th, 2014 at 1:13 pm
Yeah, a middling tinker might even be able to make the body a meamless one-piece, using varying sizes of simple round and rectangular mandrels, on his front stoop.
May 9th, 2014 at 1:10 pm
I thought that I’d see coil stock fed into progressive dies and the parts popping out at 1000-1500 ppm. Jack.