Watch: a home machinist makes a clock from scratch, right down to the screws and washers

The screws that one buys for pennies a pound are not labor-intensive. The heads are not lovingly turned on lathes. They are stamped from a long piece of wire in one operation, and the threads are rolled by a very automatic machine. Here’s a machine that makes those screws with the little drill bit on the end… no humans in sight.

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