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thanks clark, didnt know that. i was going to comment to happy but you enlightened me.

what you see here starting from top and moving down; crakshaft, clutch and brake assembly( open turtle mouth) next crankshaft ,connnecting rods, counterbalance assy. then the ram contained by the frame of the press.

180 being the bottom of the stroke for the ram ( or teeth as some call it )

Ive worked on tooling that went into presses like these ... and yes when they hit 180 they shake the building

seems like they are asking each other, "How are we going to get out of here?!?!"

THEY GAVE PATIENTS SEWING MACHINES??!!??!

fair play.... just remember im not the one slagging you off at every turn. I was only expressing an opinion, and i was under the impression this site was an artistic record of the abandoned building.... i obviously got the wrong end of the stick

striaght jacket or bra... still for restraint

almost looks like a stright jacket

looks as if the building is standing impervious to the many stary nights it has seen.

Wasn't ripping you a new one - however, yours was the comment that tipped me by suggesting, as many others have (see above) that perhaps I should adopt the view that "art is in the mind of the beholder" when so many people already view the entire field through a filter of "creative art." That was my point. If you look at the comments I was pointing out, THAT is where the "creative art" is. Those were written by people who don't have a clue about how these places work or used to work, and now they all have something to say, and almost every bit of it negative. I don't want to be THAT creative - I just want to point out what has happened - the bad stuff AND the good stuff. Most of the times that I have tried to pull us all back to reality I have gotten:
1-) asked to look at this as "art".
2-) told that I am cold and sterile.
3-) told of a story that happened to one person that obviously means that everything I have said must be false.
4-) told that if I can't see it there way I must be one of the Nazis.

Sorry if you were in the way when I exploded, but I am also tired of being picked at for telling about reality - what it's like to live and work here - and it grieves me repeatedly to see the lives of the people who live(d) and work(ed) here reduced to someone's "artistic fantasy."

and further to that.... where did i mention all that paprnormal crap? or mention any previous methods of paitent care by name? in fact.... ur post is pretty nippy isnt it?...... go rip the arse out of some of the people on this comments board who talk rubbish in every single post

woah.... hang on a minute.... im not demonising the staff in institutions.......99.9% of all mental health staff work incredibly hard on stupidly low pay and do an almost impossible job every single day simply for the love of it, im not arguing with that...... get off the soap box for just a second eh? i agree with a lotta what you say.... just not all of it. Go back and read all that again, i wasnt being in the least bit hostile towards you sorry i said anything now since you verbally ripped me a new arsehole.

This is like one of the best pieces of art i've ever seen. guys like you also laughed about picasso when he started to paint his "weird" paintings, and now he's called a genius. i think the guy who wrote this, just had to flee into an abandoned building to practise his art, because outside he was already hunted by ppl with torches and dung forks, because the dumb rabble never understands ingeniousness and condemn it as terrible stuff

I think this device belongs in a spa! Imagine having one to get into after working hard all day and needing to relax those muscles!