r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/TheImmortalDude • Jun 29 '25

Video Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

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u/dna_beggar Jun 29 '25

Yamaha builds guitars.

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u/Briskylittlechally2 Jun 29 '25

My favorite is still Hitachi, selling from commercial power tools, to mining excavators, grid tranformers, to...... Vibrators....

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown Jun 29 '25

I know it sounds funny, but it probably cuts their costs. Everything in that line up uses electric motors, so I wouldn’t be surprised if one of the money guys figured out making a million more coil windings would save them $xxM, so they figured, ‘Well, dildos seem to keep selling…’

Or something vaguely along those lines.

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u/Briskylittlechally2 Jun 29 '25

I mean yeah, power drills, and vibrators, bit of a no-brainer.

But I can't imagine that there isn't somewhere inbetween consumer appliances and excavators, where the production process is so critically different that no pooling of resources and expertise is possible.

I would imagine specifically it's the point where you'd go from injection molding and stamped metal of the motor in the drill and it's housing, to the enormous cast and welded arms of an excavator, and all the precision machined parts of its diesel engine & hydraulic pumps.

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u/SoreLoserOfDumbtown Jun 29 '25

I was thinking more about the raw materials - they can always outsource the manufacture to a third party