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There may only be a handful of people in the world who have thought as deeply as Pat Delany has about making cheap tools. Delany, from Palestine, Texas, designs hand-powered tools made of recycled materials. His heavy-duty drills, lathes, saws and other tools can handle the same tasks as modern power tools, but they equip carpentry and machine shops in off-grid and impoverished communities. To achieve their low-tech precision, his designs fuse century-old technology, present-day scrapped auto parts, pipe, concrete, wood and a relentless commitment to the bottom line.

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Unfortunately this is a really old article and all of the links redirect to a yahoo group that doesn’t appear to exist anymore. Fortunately the pictures and diagrams give some insight into how these machines work, and therefore how to construct them.

There are also a number of tutorials on the creation of multi-machines floating around the net.

Did a little bit of digging and this is what I’ve found so far:

This is a link to a web page with data about the multi-machine.

Here is a direct link to the PDF that describes its construction.

This is the page on the screw cutting lathe.

This is a direct link to the lathe construction pdf.

Here is what I can find on the drill, with some technical drawings and photos here.

There’s some information on the generator here.