GreyEyedGhost

This is a great example of the minority being correct. There were absolutely people who thought slavery was abhorrent, and they weren’t the norm. Time passed, opinions changed, and now the majority think slavery is abhorrent. There are still those who think slavery is justified, even in the developed world.

You can see similar trends with women’s rights, LGBT+ rights, etc.

If this is like similar clocks I’ve seen, the pendulum is only esthetic and has almost no weight. The friction of the clock resting against the wall would be more than enough to counteract any forces the pendulum would exert. Two holes shouldn’t be necessary, but it will have to be pretty close to level for the tiny electromagnet to work.

Is that the sliding pipe gun? I think all you need is materials, a hack saw, and a drill. But with a machine shop, the materials list is just steel and some springs, and you can have a gun as good as any we had prior to the last century.

Reminds me of a time when I went to a maker space open house, and they were showing all kinds of cool stuff, including fairly advanced 3D printers for time. They mentioned there was programming to halt prints of things like gun parts, so it would be very hard to make guns using them. I commented, “Besides, you can make better ones in the metal shop in the other room.” He replied, “Yeah! <brief pause> No!”