@ai.mindscope: The company that built this machine shut down decades ago. The machine never noticed. ⚙️💀 1939. Hamburg. Still cutting precision gears today. 87 years later. Here's why it refuses to die 👇 🔵 Cast iron frame — 87 years of internal stress fully settled 🔵 More dimensionally stable NOW than when manufactured 🔵 Continuous cutting oil — preserved precision for nine decades 🔵 No digital controls — nothing to update, corrupt, or fail 🔵 Same mechanical process — unchanged since 1939 Here's the engineering truth nobody teaches 👇 Modern machines are built to be replaced. Planned obsolescence is a business model. This machine was built before that idea existed. It outlived its manufacturer. It outlived entire industrial eras. It outlived the engineers who built it. And it shows up to work every day. 👀 We didn't build machines better in 2024. We built them cheaper. 💀⚙️ Save this — an 87-year-old gear cutter still working is the most powerful engineering statement ever made. 🔖 Follow for weekly breakdowns on the machines built before obsolescence became a feature. #VintageMachinery #GermanEngineering #PrecisionEngineering #ManufacturingHistory #MachineTools

rpm :

lost technology most machines worth more than what they bought for when they this old

user2152100618072 :

If they’re so great where are all the other ones built at the same time? Survivorship bias will trick you into thinking every medieval building was a cathedral and every machine made in the 30s is still working.

BrewedWithCoffee :

I mean yeah capitalism doesn’t reward well built products

Roberts :

Made in the real Germany

GWG :

War machines

Dean Swanson278 :

my first job was in Iowa at a tube fab shop and the slotters we used where WWll German

zendrak289 :

Is the manufacturer gone because their stuff didn’t break down? 😅

mosties :

the real made-in-germany long time ago

Cap :

It's a simple machine and has probably had the motors and all wear parts replaced 500 times lol

razak :

what a meshine...

azrik79 :

the first lightbulb is still burning too..they make stuff break now, so u have to buy more..

GregX75 :

I was a senior tech at a CNC facility. They had machines so precise that the goverment monitored them. constant issues. In the back was 20 Acme Gridley machines. 1930-40s. rarely had any issues

Watch.Movies :

so Hitler is responsible somehow

prod_by_Versace :

companies can’t make money selling machines that work

shanehitchens :

yep., had three spindle hobbers at my first job. all from the 1960's reliable as, and cut thousands of gears a week, our co. shut down but wouldnt surprise me if they are still going today.

Nebaz🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇮🇪 :

we built cheap junk

grizzypatriot :

Electronics fail pretty quickly. We have a 40's model press. Only needs air to operate. No electricity.

Tremendous :

Germany peaked in 1939

EnieNena :

My retired machinist made his apprenticeship at heidenreich&harbeck. We still got one machine working perfectly

Beetleman :

Engineering is all about creating obsolescence and demand, no company stays in business that makes something last forever unfortunately

Derek :

Manufacturer is gone, because the country where it was located is gone.

gizmo :

Probably made final drive gears for panther tanks👌🇬🇧

Gage_B_Steppin :

Johnny B :

These are amazing machines. We used them to shape electrodes for edm gear forging dies