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December 8, 2008

Oregon man makes miniature machines

  • Most of Al Osterman’s models are one-sixth the size of the originals and made with the same metals.
    • By RANDI BJORNSTAD
    The (Eugene) Register

    AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Paul Carter [enlarge]
    Al Osterman shows an example of his work, a scale model of an 1880 W.F. Barnes metal lathe. It is scaled 2 inches to the foot.

    JUNCTION CITY, Ore. — Al Osterman has built just about every kind of industrial machine and tool you can think of — metal lathe, milling machine, shaper, vise, planer, power hammer and more — by hand, and in miniature.


     
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