Originally Posted by
scarlson
Exactly right,
Doug Fattic!snip
I guess I forget that people don't have a background in this stuff. I haven't had any formal training, aside from a 40-hour machine shop course that was a bit of a joke. I mostly just copied my dad and other old guys who showed me a lot of this stuff when I was a youngster, so I forget that this stuff is not self-evident.
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This is so true, a lot of what I know I learned by watching old dudes (which according to my son I am one now) and then just trying it out and just building things. BITD guys at Coast Guard Mechanics A school's had a first assignment of making a nut and bold from steel stock and using hand tools only. they all learned a lot both about metal working and new cuss words (that was not me...was on the same location for A school in marine science) I think this it a ton more difficult for current generation
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