Certainly you’ve assembled a piece of IKEA furniture and experienced that special kind of frustration that comes with realising the screw holes don’t line up and you have to take everything apart and put it together it again. Now imagine this problem at 230m in the air with massive steel girders instead of particle board. When those holes don’t line up, it’s a whole different kind of frustration. More »
Mateusz Zdziebko and Patryk Kizny got together to create this ode to steel. You can find it everywhere, but it’s something you likely take for granted. That might not be so if it had the right soundtrack. More »
>Catchy guitar riffs, filmmaker Michael Evans superb cuts and edits, and Soulcraft owner Sean Walling’s makin’-it-look easy bike-building skills all combine in this incredibly interesting mini-mentary look at how a steel frame custom bicycle is made, from start to finish. More »
This is a video captured in a Polish steel factory, but I would totally believe you if you said they made lightsabres or T-1000s there, because that bright neon glow doesn’t look like it’s real. Or from this world. More »
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After the drill reached the trapped Chilean miners, work began on fortifying the rescue shaft with steel. With that almost done, officials are now saying that the miners will be pulled out on Wednesday in a 48-hour effort. More »
If you were on a battlefield, say, 700 years ago, Damascus steel mattered. The super-strong blades were fabled in their age, said to have sliced through the swords of foes and solid rock. Then we forgot how to make it. More »
