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What are your three favorite machines?

Mine
A-10 Warthog
Top Fuel Dragster
Porsche 911

Old 03-31-2010, 11:51 AM
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I'm going to go with the lever, the block and tackle, and the inclined plane.
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the coffee maker - hot coffee
the HVAC system - hot or cold me
the refrigerator - store food and drinks
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Metal lathe
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least common denominator
 
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Hard to limit it to just three... love 40's 50' 60's American cars... Italian and English sports-cars and motorcycles... steam trains... WWII fighter planes.
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Old 03-31-2010, 12:15 PM
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The machine that makes beer.

The car

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1) MP5
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3) hot water heater
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Old 03-31-2010, 01:08 PM
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1) MP5
2) toilet
3) hot water heater
Why would you want to heat hot water?

Mine:

Central Heat & Air,
Beer brewing system
Porsche 911
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Old 03-31-2010, 01:17 PM
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The machine that makes beer.

The car

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What? They have a machine that makes beer? I thought it came from the breasts of Tahitian virgins.
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Old 03-31-2010, 01:18 PM
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I like the screw...
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What? They have a machine that makes beer? I thought it came from the breasts of Tahitian virgins.
or perhaps German

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Cant think of any others
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Good choice. And you still have two left!
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in no particular order;

espresso maker.
firearms.
is a radar detector a machine?
Old 03-31-2010, 02:40 PM
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The Space Shuttle Crawler, The Blue Flame, The C5 Galaxy

(ask again tomorrow, and I'll think of three new ones.)







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Old 03-31-2010, 03:22 PM
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Coffee maker is my favorite, But my all time favorite and the machine I am totally in awe of is the helicopter.







Just an amazing machine.

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