Yeah this is a constant problem here.
Since many of the images posted here are of rare tools and rarer info about them, we never prune old photos like many forums do. They would simply never be seen again in many cases, and that is absolutely against the spirit of MTO.
That having been said, we have been amassing info for 18 years now, so you can imagine just how humongous our database is.

As a concession to our site tech Whoey and the very expensive server we run to manage it all, we have dropped picture sizes as small as we can and still be good quality.
It's a balancing act, and sometimes a bit frustrating, but it beats the alternative. We have info on tools the manufacturers of said tools done even have.
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