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Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post
Just curious your age? I imagine an old man

Not trying to offend anyone. Its just whenever I meet a guy, that fixes everything. Its usually one of those old guys like my grandpa was. He could fix anything. Engine blew up, let me make a new set of pistons on the lathe. He could do anything, although not on computers. More of an old shools mechanical engineer.
nope in my 30s...just classically trained...had an older generation mec.engineer teach me some tricks...like how to fix craclking speakers...ronsonol....etc...lathe work is fun...if you have one...i was a blacksmith,(toolmaker)...had a machine shop next to the forge room....used to make all sorts of oddball tools..swordblades,etc....usually out of spring steel...sold alot of blanks to the renfest crowd...my present office is in my house...and my shop burned down...someone ran into it...over the weekend and well it wasn't pretty....lost 75% of my tools...alot of real neat stuff people gave me....ive had alot off different jobs...stonemasonry,...computers were my hobby...now there my livelyhood
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