While responding to another thread
 

I came across this. Amazing!

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1545313996.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1545313996.jpg

Amazing yes.. but it is lacking style... :)

That is cool.

I heard an old story that is likely just urban legend. The Japanese sent the Swiss engineers a sample of their prowess, the worlds smallest drill bit. The Swiss sent it back with a hole drilled in it.

You'd think that guy would use a little hand moisturizer before taking that shot.

The variation of this story that I heard was that the Germans sent the Swiss a bit of the tinyest-ever-machined extremely fine wire to brag about.

A while later it was returned to sender with no documentation. So the Germans examined it very carefully and eventually discovered the Swiss had drilled a hole down the center the whole length of the wire.

That thing is huge! Well at least relative to MEMS components

https://www.tf.uni-kiel.de/matwis/am...gear_small.gif