Three New Videos Released

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Recently one of my favorite sculptures had an unfortunate encounter with a gravity field and had to come back to it’s birthplace, my studio, for repairs. This gave me the opportunity to get some video of this incredible sculpture Frontier Cartography Droid I was also able to get video of […]
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New Mel Ristau Sculpture Completion

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http://melristau.com/blog/the-fabric-of-knowledge-a-kinetic-sculpture/ Aspen leaves spinning over a sunlit Colorado stream, and a diverse student community are associations woven into this suspended kinetic sculpture. The 25 x 50 x 6′ work is composed of stainless steel cable, tube and rod, and 920 variously textured aluminum panels. The sculpture folds and unfolds like […]
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Large Wind Up Motor Restoration

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I think this motor is from a very old barbershop sign. I welcome advice. It will run for about 20 minutes on a full winding. Very low torque. I dipped and flushed the coil spring assembly in carburetor cleaner for a day instead of breaking that part all the way […]
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