Aquaholic
World's Oldest Teenager
- Location
- San Diego, CA.
I normally refrain from posting stuff which isn't non watercraft related. I mean this is a friggin' PWC site, no?
However, we're all gear and motor heads here... and what I saw today was so mind bendingly cool, I had to share it with ya all.
Here in the north county of San Diego, is a miniature motor and craft museum. It's free to the public and has an extensive collection of some of the most intricately hand crafted and machined engines of all types, makes and models, ranging from automobile, aircraft, boating, firearms, etc.
4 stroke miniatures, with piston bores the size of a dime... that actually run!
We took the tour which included a discussion of how some of these pieces of functional art are painstakenly crafted, also a demonstration of how a few of these engines actually run.
The sound of these tiny engines was as cool as any F1 motor I've ever heard.
Words escape me as to how cool this stuff was. We spent about an hour there and only scratched the surface. I could have easily spent the whole day... GEEKING out on this stuff.
The guys running the museum were mostly retired machinists in their late 60's, 70's, and early 80's.
On with some pics!
However, we're all gear and motor heads here... and what I saw today was so mind bendingly cool, I had to share it with ya all.
Here in the north county of San Diego, is a miniature motor and craft museum. It's free to the public and has an extensive collection of some of the most intricately hand crafted and machined engines of all types, makes and models, ranging from automobile, aircraft, boating, firearms, etc.
4 stroke miniatures, with piston bores the size of a dime... that actually run!
We took the tour which included a discussion of how some of these pieces of functional art are painstakenly crafted, also a demonstration of how a few of these engines actually run.
The sound of these tiny engines was as cool as any F1 motor I've ever heard.
Words escape me as to how cool this stuff was. We spent about an hour there and only scratched the surface. I could have easily spent the whole day... GEEKING out on this stuff.
The guys running the museum were mostly retired machinists in their late 60's, 70's, and early 80's.
On with some pics!
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