moulding casting machining this is a primitive propeller workshop in Dhaka, probably making orders for river ferries Pakistan and Bangladesh are full of guys like this; put them in technical apprenticeship for a year and you’ll have a heavy industrial base.

This is pretty much how Japan has maintained industrial capacity and specialization throughout 3 centuries. Small industrial workshops that even make spaceship parts.

Even if you just start giving these guys investment to make them more financially secure, the returns could be immense

This book talks about how Pakistan’s banks starved SME capital-goods manufacturers in the 20th c., causing atrophy. Whereas Indian banks lent to their SMEs, which flourished as a result. This is despite Pakistan inheriting the lion’s share of Indian industry in partition.

Not mentioned in the screenshot but curious why the banks decided to do that

Yeah it’s in another chapter in the book. The author argues it was because - Deep cultural disdain towards the Lohar blacksmith caste who overwhelmingly comprised SME industries. - Ayub Khan’s industrial policy favoured oligarchic and feudal families, ignoring everyone else.

Whereas Indian banks have long maintained relationships with the Hindu Baniya merchant caste. This Hindu banker class which filled this role of lending to SMEs in British NW India fled Pakistan during partition.

Is it viable to somehow maintain cottage industries alongside modern heavy industry?

Specialised component manufacturing Whereas anything scalable will be scaled to benefit from economies of scale

“cottage industry” as a modern CNC machine shop

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No, you need a proper managed capital investment too And that’s where the structure of politics and deficiencies there-in come into play Nor will you be receptive to the steps needed

If you search my account, you’ll find a great number of tweets discussing the importance of industrial policy

Earned a follow!

@KevinRBing

Why do people love manual labour when we got automated machines? Medieval blacksmithing is just dumb in the 21 century.

Truly resourceful people

Can they really adapt to digital workflows? Good industry is 3d design and CNC.

GD&T and systems engineering standards translated and aired on the radio

I thought this component is forged for better and stable mechanic?property, casting? really?

Even deepwater cargo vessels have cast propellers

if there is a big hole in the cast under x ray, the whole propeller has to scrapped ?

no idea bro, i’m not an metallurgist or engineer. im just a shitpoaster. but having said that, I suspect this is why casting is such a laboriously precise process — a fuck-up means going back to square one

@JackofBlades22 even a Sri Lankan brother understands this @BJI_Official needs to have a policy to enable more entrepreneurial + industrial activity

This method of manufacture was taught by the British when they were here.. Pakistanis have never decided to upgrade their knowledge or processes. They don’t have that bug in them. They just want to coast along in life.

Utterly fascinating