Jay Leno article on machinists

epanzella said:
I'm a retired contractor and was always amazed at some of these office types with big jobs and 200K plus salaries that couldn't understand the simplest of mechanical concepts.
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It seems like you either got it or you don't. I inherited my Dad's trait of looking at something and understanding how it works and how to fix it (really generalizing here, I'm not superman). It just comes naturally to me, but I have two younger brothers that can barely tighten a screw without help, and it's hard to understand how that's even possible. My wife is learning to be pretty handy around basic hand tools, but it's coming slow. To me, it's like she has no "common sense", but of course that's not it at all, and I have to make myself be patient when she doesn't get things that I think are obvious. :) I'll never be a good teacher.
 
ROFL! "utter social ineptitude". It's true! Sigh, why am I laughing?
 
I know, its really scary sometimes to think how our country would survive if the ships quit coming in from China. I bought a Leroy Somer generator that needed the fields rewound. I had a awful time finding someone that could do it. 40 years ago I knew a fellow that did it all the time. I still have a elec. motor rewound by him and a skill saw. Some one told me that in India you could find a local guy sitting on the street that could do it and look like new. I can remember in the 40's of all the fellows who had little South Bends, Logans, Clausings, Atlas lathes making aircraft parts in their home. A few years ago my father in law gave me a lot of popular Mechanich's magazines from the 40". I enjoyed reading them and admired those fellows. I wish I hadn't threw them out when I was done. The first radio I ever owned, I built it from scratch from a company called Burnstein Applebee (I think) located in Kansa city I believe. They sold all kinds of elec. parts. I think Radio Shack was called Allied Radio back then. I still have a VOM that I built by ordering parts from them. Now you can get a cheap one from China free with the coupon from Harbor Freight
 
john11139 said:
I know, its really scary sometimes to think how our country would survive if the ships quit coming in from China. I bought a Leroy Somer generator that needed the fields rewound. I had a awful time finding someone that could do it. 40 years ago I knew a fellow that did it all the time. I still have a elec. motor rewound by him and a skill saw. Some one told me that in India you could find a local guy sitting on the street that could do it and look like new. I can remember in the 40's of all the fellows who had little South Bends, Logans, Clausings, Atlas lathes making aircraft parts in their home. A few years ago my father in law gave me a lot of popular Mechanich's magazines from the 40". I enjoyed reading them and admired those fellows. I wish I hadn't threw them out when I was done. The first radio I ever owned, I built it from scratch from a company called Burnstein Applebee (I think) located in Kansa city I believe. They sold all kinds of elec. parts. I think Radio Shack was called Allied Radio back then. I still have a VOM that I built by ordering parts from them. Now you can get a cheap one from China free with the coupon from Harbor Freight
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Hmmmmmmm ........ I think they call it progress. In my late teens and early twenties, I worked in a motor shop and we rewound power tool armatures and fields, rewound motors too, now we just throw them out and get a new one from china and India.
 
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