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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.
Dang, that isn't 'old school', that is 'talent'! I wish I had just 10% of that...