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14 Jul 2012, 6:54 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWn8gQ9Ykpk[/youtube]I could watch this for hours if it were actually in front of me!


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14 Jul 2012, 8:47 pm

The sound of 'mechanical gears' seemed to have calmed me down in the past...

Quite a bit, really.
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14 Jul 2012, 9:30 pm

Love watching old machines work, there's a beam engine in the British science museum and I could watch it for ages.

BlueBean wrote:
Yes.

I have a distinct memory from Elementary school where a photocopier going made me almost instantly go into a trance. It was one of the most soothing sounds I had ever heard.


Spent a summer holiday from uni working in a records company, 7 hours a day just me a photocopier and 1,000,000 historical records to be copied. Still one of the best jobs I've had.

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I can't stand certain mechanical noises, like belt-sanders or painfully loud planers. but I do like "softer" sounds, like chainsaws (if that makes sense), printers putting out paper, and computer start-up noises, or old modems connecting to the internet when they make that Matrix-sounded buzzing noise.

*BBBZZRREEEE.........BEEP BEEP DING DING DAAAAUUUGGGHHH!! !!*

...Something like that. :lol:


I miss the old modem sounds.



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15 Jul 2012, 4:45 am

The first thing that came in my mind was an excavator digging. As a kid I loved to watch it and other similar machines working. I loved (and sometimes still do) watching reels of old tape recorders while listening to them. I also have a certain fascination with mechanical clocks.


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15 Jul 2012, 6:00 am

I love watching, building and modifying machines. CNC machines are my favorite. I can watch CNC machines for hours. Their inhuman coordination and precision never fails to fascinate. That is one reason why I have three of them. I would have more but they are rather large and usually weigh several tonnes.

I wish I had one of these:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I3diD1lpho[/youtube]


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15 Jul 2012, 8:11 am

Does anyone else love this show?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW1JyHSyzPk&feature=related[/youtube]