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Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#1 @
04-17-07
, 06:43 PM
Here's an interesting story via http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDe...fm?Id=0,5 6311 Quote:
Here's the Video |
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#2 @
04-18-07
, 05:34 AM
No way! I wouldn't let that thing anywhere near anything I made. |
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I agree
Post#3 @
04-24-07
, 11:33 AM
I don't blame you. But somehow this is gaining steam, it got MADE. |
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Re: I agree
Post#4 @
04-24-07
, 11:52 AM
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I think that it an interesting machine, but I doubt whether it could do even a half baked job of polishing platinum, since it requires so much in the way of pre-polish work. For manufacturers who are producing 50,000 pieces a month this could replace a large number of workers with a couple who just need to know how to load the machine. It's just an extension of CNC machines which cut metal, in that all of the work goes into the programming where you have one skilled worker who gets paid well and everyone else has a lower paying job just feeding the machine. Scary, it reminds me of a science fiction/horror movie. |
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#5 @
04-24-07
, 04:50 PM
i wish our society put a higher value on those of its citizenry that make things, sometimes i feel we are loosing something very important when we loose our ability to craft things with our own hands, i realize forward thinking technology is a form of creativeness and money is the bottom line that drives markets to innovate and change. my husband says there is nothing quite like making a plan to create and then create it with your own two hands. i am most likely prejudiced about this since i grew up with a master stone mason, home builder, tool & die makers, woodworkers, diesel mechanic, you name it my dad and brothers can do it and well. so it makes sense i would marry someone like that too. i live in the northeast usa, there seems to be a high concentration of industrious workers like that here. heck everyone can shingle a roof, put up a stick building, or fix just about anything, and if we cant we will learn. i learned a lot of that stuff from my dad and brothers. not to mention my mom can fix her own appliances and i learned tht from her. my dad always said " a country ought to be able to make it's own swords" i am sure it was not his quote originally but it made sense to me. |
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Last edited by assoverteacups : 04-24-07 at 05:01 PM.
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#6 @
04-24-07
, 04:59 PM
"load the machine and walk away" this presumes you must have something better to do than performing a craft, what will we all do when we have so many conveniences and all we do is serve each other cheeseburgers and sell each other stocks while hand are busy in other lands making what we no longer have skill to make... those hands of poverty may have great power over us someday oh my gosh, i sound like the south park episode "therr takin arrr jawwbs" i need to lighten up today... 
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#7 @
04-24-07
, 06:07 PM
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At the very core of it it isn't so much about jobs as it is about motivation and interest. For those of us who design, make and use tools, it's not so bad, but for those who serve the machine at a lower level it can lead to a life of boredom and drudgery. Master stone mason huh ? Check out this site: http://www.stonefoundation.org/ there are still those of us around who love and work with this stuff. No way to make a living, since fine stone work would cost an arm and a leg and most people can't afford it...at least around here. It sure is a good way to get in shape though. |
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#8 @
04-24-07
, 06:30 PM
i hope you all dont mind.. this is off topic for this thread but...michael e check this out here is a picture of my little brothers handiwork, he was 24 years old when he built this fireplace (now 31), naturally he learned from my dad. the whole thing is two stories high, this house is a late 1800's bothel my brother and his wife are remodeling. that stone was cut from foundation stones that were on the property froma barn that was destroyed by tornado. the pictures do not do justice to it either as the color is uniform in real life, this pic was taken with a flash on the loft/balcony upstairs and the camera is not that great. the guy in the pic is my brother. cool ha? |
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Last edited by assoverteacups : 04-24-07 at 06:32 PM.
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Post#9 @
04-25-07
, 06:22 AM
I am impressed. Doing good work doesn't equate to good profit mainly because business minded people fill the market with rough and ready goods. |
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Re: Robot built to Polish and Grind Jewelry
Nice fireplace AOTC ! I doubt if that sort of thing will ever be done by robots, but then again who knows. That profit comment is kind of funny Phillip. Profit and being able to compete with ever lower end prices is what drives the development of ever more complicated machines. Sort of a vicious cycle where the average wage keeps going down, forcing people to buy things which are lower in price and requiring the use of complicated machines to make them at such low prices. There's always the bright side in that there are those people who will build very fine things, usually for themselves, since material costs are a small portion of the retail costs. There are a lot of "hobbyists" and part time businesses doing some really fine work in all sorts of areas like this stone work, fabrics, wood work, automotive restoration and even jewelry that seldom gets seen since it's so small and local. |
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Last edited by Michael_E : 04-25-07 at 12:10 PM.
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