Daily Use and the Wonder of How It’s All Made
Posted by BViews on November 20, 2008
Randy wanted to know how all these things were made. Not how they were put together. Rounded parts were hard to make and you couldn’t just cut all around and just hope they would turn out right. While Randy was a professional acrobat and didn’t have time for screw machine training, the concept of wood and metal turning still interested him. After all, even the long railings that he often flung himself from were made by a large screw machine. These lathes were needed to make the material smooth enough so that he could flip, land, and twist on them without tearing apart his hands and arms.
The posts and a variety of other turned parts that Randy encountered during his daily routine were designed and shipped way before he arrived in Orlando. They were in part an exchange between a dance training company in Halifax and the acrobatic teaching school’s advertiser’s shop expert. Not to be outdone, the principal of the acrobatic teaching school himself had once operated a lathe to make his own keys. Randy, though, he never needed to be able to run one of these, was glad to be back on the uneven bars once again.
MommyX2 said,
Wow. What an interesting story. You have combined some interesting characters with great practical knowledge on how certain type of machinery works. I wonder if Randy got a job with the Cirque de Soliel here in orlando. There are certainly a lot of theme parks where Randy could find a job flying from the high bars or some other death defying feat. Thanks for enlightening us with this story.
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