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What in a human workshop would be the racket of robots, clatter of hand tools, insistent hum of computers and noisy banter of human voices, were here reduced to a soft whirring, the gentle rasp of minute handplanes against raw wood, the occasional murmur of subdued Vulcan voices.
Dwellers in the Crucible Margaret Wander Bonanno 1990
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I put mine in for another reason - because curlies from my handplanes kept clogging the impeller input because of the mesh over it - but I have noticed that there have been significantly fewer sickening metal on metal crunches in the impeller since it was installed!
Stu's Shed 2009
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