Old School

There is a difference between being old school and just old. My late Father in Law, for example. had a pencil sharpener hanging next to the rotary wall phone in the shop. With a shelf above it full of analog gauges and a Simpson 160 volt meter. That made him old. He could also make a reproduction Model A fender spare tire well from a scrap of metal, some hammers, tin snips, and a oxy-acet torch. That is old school.
 
I still remember watching my father patch a crack in a pickup fender with an old coat hanger and a Oxy-act torch. Seems he could weld and braze almost anything including alum irrigation pipes, I was never that good at it. Melting through, things yea I could do that.
 
I visited several job shops this week - all were exclusively CNC. I would say (sadly) that any machine with hand wheels is old school, in fact, an artifact of a bygone era.
 
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JPMacG said:
I visited several job shops this week - all were exclusively CNC. I would say (sadly) that any machine with hand wheels is old school, in fact, an artifact of a bygone era.
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Well, look at the bright side. It is only an artifact if it is no longer in use, making things for today. The same can be said for us...
 
JPMacG said:
I visited several job shops this week - all were exclusively CNC. I would say (sadly) that any machine with hand wheels is old school, in fact, an artifact of a bygone era.
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I guess they cannot repair anything anymore. CNC is great for repetitive jobs, or even one off from a CAD drawing, but manual is the way to repair parts, or make new from the old.
 
Family had a crank phone- 24 ring 3...... The more I read about fine
machining in these fora the more I am convinced that , in the end,
good work is in the eyes, ears, and fingers (probably maligned crusty
old fart).......BLJHB.
 
woochucker said:
I guess they cannot repair anything anymore. CNC is great for repetitive jobs, or even one off from a CAD drawing, but manual is the way to repair parts, or make new from the old.
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Repairing things is so old school.... just order a new one off Aliexpress.
 
Old school means paying bills by walking in and paying cash and wanting a receipt, and Yes I do.
 
Ok , may be your old school if you and your buddies would stand along a stream and see who could pee the farthest and the longest. YUPP I usually won .
Ain't that a great accomplishment , now after the paralysis I'm lucky not get my shoes .
 
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