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A comment on GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization. Parent comment

Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by sandfly on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:35AM (#22626828)
Machine shops are Turing complete. You can use a machine to fabricate the machine you are using.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by tlb on Thursday March 19, 2020 @10:49AM (#22627981)
Very few are. Making ball bearings, for example, requires very special machines that no regular shop has.
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Re:GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobiliz... by catherd on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:49AM (#22628584)
...but you can make machines in machine shops, as pointed out above. or machines to make machines, if needed.

or in the simpler case you might fall back to scraped and oiled ways and bushings

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