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- Sun Nov 05, 2017 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home Made Tools
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12533
Re: Home Made Tools
Yup, the concept of independent invention that you're talking about is called Multiple discovery . A list of historical multiple discoveries is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries . The jet engine is a famous one. Going way back to pre-history, I'm sure things like the w...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:30 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home Made Tools
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12533
Re: Home Made Tools
Most patents are a joke. In the electronic industry employees are encourage to submit patent applications. I have more than a dozen but I am proud of only 3. You would not believe the crap that get patented, some is downright NOT working or based on sound theory and experimental success, some is so...
- Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:51 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home Made Tools
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12533
- Sun May 14, 2017 12:10 pm
- Forum: The Photo Album
- Topic: Helpful Additions
- Replies: 5
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Re: Helpful Additions
Homemade tools guy here, not a spammer :) (PROOF: 350+ forums that know us ) Just a note that we featured Greg B's excellent mill table stop in our HomemadeTools.net newsletter: http://mailchi.mp/buildthreads/homemade-tool-of-the-week-lathe-dro-garbage-disposal-motor-342765 We now have 620 homemade ...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 4:37 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 54 Best Homemade Tools from Chaski.org
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7025
Re: 54 Best Homemade Tools from Chaski.org
That portable machine shop is a fan favorite. Nice to see the machinist-in-training putting it to good use.
- Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: 54 Best Homemade Tools from Chaski.org
- Replies: 10
- Views: 7025
54 Best Homemade Tools from Chaski.org
Just a heads up that we recently featured The Home Machinist Forum's 54 best homemade tools on HomemadeTools.net. Here's a link to the thread: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/hmt-forum/rocker.gif 54 Best Homemade Tools from the Home Machinist Forum at Chaski.org We share some members between Home...
- Sat Aug 29, 2015 11:22 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Home Made Tools
- Replies: 21
- Views: 12533
Re: Home Made Tools
Jon here from HomemadeTools.net. I know this thread is an old one, but thanks for the kind words :) To celebrate our 20,000th homemade tool, we made a new ebook featuring our top 50 homemade tools. You guys are welcome to it for free: http://download.homemadetools.net/50MustReadTools.pdf http://down...