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Back in ye olden days they used:
- Dogs powered treadmills (seriously)
- water
- steam
- elbow grease/treadles (like you can see on the antique sewing machines)
Don't know if they had people...

Now that is sexy. The technology isn't that difficult, the problem is that you need absolute precision when making it.

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Now this is the size of thing I am talking about:...

Probably less remote than blowing a boiler in a workshop bench mounted stationary engine.

Besides we shave with cut throat razors, so being a namby pamby safety nerd who gets frightened by...

Au contraire,
Catastrophic failure from electric motor = electrocuted to death.



I know the set up you are talking about and it would be so easy to rig up a workshop steam engine to power...

But are pneumatics as manly and old school as steam?

In terms of steam High Pressure has a specific connotation, engines used in high performance warships and express trains, which took a very...

Low pressure! A 1/4 HP workshop engine has a very small boiler and doesn't go to high pressure. High pressure steam engines are what get used in ships and trains.

I have been doing some thinking about getting a permanent space set up for working on razors and had a bit of a thought.

Some friends are into model steam engines, and I know from experience that...