MachinePix Weekly #41

This week's most popular post was an aggressively wet demonstration of a spillway gate. Next week's interview: the CTO of Zero Motorcycles ⚡️🏍

Next week’s interview guest is Abe Askenazi, the CTO of Zero Motorcycles—a Santa Cruz, CA-based manufacturer of electric motorcycles. Selfishly, also my favorite personal motorcycle so I’m excited to ask Abe a lot of questions (my Zero makes a cameo in the postscript of issue #39).

2021 Zero SR/F. Source: instagram.com/zeromotorcycles

The most popular post this week was an open spillway gate. Artificial reservoirs have all kinds of crazy infrastructure!

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Open spillway gate at the Funil Hydroelectric Power Plant in Rio de Janeiro.

I’m always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?

—Kane

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The Week in Review

I could run an entire account just dedicated to cool rail machines.

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Polish State Railways operated SM48 locomotive with side-tipping wagons unloading sand.

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Absolutely in awe at shaping a blade with a scraper (versus a grinder). Here is a mechanized version.

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Kiyoshi Kato shapes a knife blade with a Sen scraper.

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This is cute, but the undisputed champion of egg-related machines is SANOVO, whose products have been posted multiple times in the past.

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Quail egg peeler by Hauber Macanuda.

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The lack of safety and emergency stops here gives me anxiety.

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Homemade log splitter by Michal Mesko.

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Postscript

The company car is now a normcore EV!

If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (and interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machines—reach out.

—Kane