{"id":3891,"date":"2011-12-02T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/an-inspirational-homebrew-motor-from-spain\/"},"modified":"2011-12-02T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T23:37:00","slug":"an-inspirational-homebrew-motor-from-spain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/an-inspirational-homebrew-motor-from-spain\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inspirational Homebrew Motor from Spain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3YfTtGCsiD8\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;\" >Bruce, KK0S, alerted me to this inspirational masterpiece from Spain. It is, as he points out, one of a number of really great videos about top level homebrew craftsmanship from Europe (remember the French homebrew tubes?).<\/p>\n<p>Other comments from Bruce:<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-style: italic;\">Did you notice that the calipers and micrometer this guy was using were seriously old-school. Totally manual readout. Not even a dial on that set of calipers! On top of that, his little lathe was manually fed. Notice in one of the shots, he is shown turning the cross slide feed wheel. No CNC anywhere. I can&#8217;t be positive, but I don&#8217;t think the lathe had a digital position readout either. This man is a machinist in the truest sense of the word. The Knack not only lives &#8211; it thrives!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our book: &#8220;SolderSmoke &#8212; Global Adventures in Wireless Electronics&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm\">http:\/\/soldersmoke.com\/book.htm<\/a>Our coffee mugs, T-Shirts, bumper stickers: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/SolderSmoke<\/a>Our Book Store: <a href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20\">http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/contracross-20<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce, KK0S, alerted me to this inspirational masterpiece from Spain. It is, as he points out, one of a number of really great videos about top level homebrew craftsmanship from Europe (remember the French homebrew tubes?). Other comments from Bruce:Did you notice that the calipers and micrometer this guy was using were seriously old-school. Totally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/an-inspirational-homebrew-motor-from-spain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Inspirational Homebrew Motor from Spain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,253,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-spain","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}