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<blockquote data-quote="John Roberts" data-source="post: 97792" data-attributes="member: 126"><p>Re: Hobbies</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I resemble that remark... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I worked in a machine shop (probably illegally at my tender age) during summer vacation after my junior and senior years of HS. As a HS senior I signed up for metal shop just to get access to the machines (so I could work on my mini-bike). I'd already been messing with metal for years, watching and learning from my two older brothers. The first shop class project involved a using a file to round off the corners and finish a small metal plate. I glanced over at the belt sander and grinding wheel and thought to myself WTF :-(. I got off to a bad early start with the shop teacher but eventually he let me loose on the machines after I proved to him I wasn't a danger to myself and others. One project was to mill the head on my 2 HP lawnmower engine to make more HP. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />, Another project was a crude beefed up dog type clutch for my minibike, that second project failed at final assembly when the pot metal housing (from a snow blower clutch) literally melted when I tried to braze the two part clutch together. :-( It was a good plan except for that fatal miscalculation about process. </p><p></p><p>The kinds of things that are better to learn when I'm 16 than later... </p><p></p><p>These days I use a hand file to sharpen my lawnmower blade because my neighbor with a grinder died over ten years ago. </p><p></p><p>JR</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John Roberts, post: 97792, member: 126"] Re: Hobbies I resemble that remark... :-) I worked in a machine shop (probably illegally at my tender age) during summer vacation after my junior and senior years of HS. As a HS senior I signed up for metal shop just to get access to the machines (so I could work on my mini-bike). I'd already been messing with metal for years, watching and learning from my two older brothers. The first shop class project involved a using a file to round off the corners and finish a small metal plate. I glanced over at the belt sander and grinding wheel and thought to myself WTF :-(. I got off to a bad early start with the shop teacher but eventually he let me loose on the machines after I proved to him I wasn't a danger to myself and others. One project was to mill the head on my 2 HP lawnmower engine to make more HP. :-), Another project was a crude beefed up dog type clutch for my minibike, that second project failed at final assembly when the pot metal housing (from a snow blower clutch) literally melted when I tried to braze the two part clutch together. :-( It was a good plan except for that fatal miscalculation about process. The kinds of things that are better to learn when I'm 16 than later... These days I use a hand file to sharpen my lawnmower blade because my neighbor with a grinder died over ten years ago. JR [/QUOTE]
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