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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by hydrogen18 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:27AM (#13072022)
That's genius. I feel like I need to create a blog documenting stuff like this. We could compare the cost of the tooling used vs. the cost of the replacement part.

Except nowadays it is more like "I just went over to my uncle's job that night where we used a $1.5 million CNC machine his employer owns to make a replacement from solid stainless"

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Re:Farm Hack: worldwide community of farmers that build and ... by abakker on Thursday December 01, 2016 @05:07PM (#13084016)
On the plus side, the replacement part will probably be better. If the tools don't cost any money, and the material doesn't cost much, and you can do the labor for free, you can make some incredibly cool stuff!
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