My solution seems to be to get more and more self sufficient as time goes
by. I now do almost all of my engine work, body work, welding, fitting,
turning, milling, paint, etc - and looking to learn how to do head work
next! I still go out for frame repairs, engine block work, and so on - the
machines to do that stuff tend to cost a bomb!
Brian
At 03:13 PM 3/12/00 -0500, Jeremy Braithwaite wrote:
>Bruce
>Hear hear! Which is why you look for race mechanics with fitter and turner
>skills not mechanical 'engineering'.
>regards
>
>
>Jeremy
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bruce Mansell <bruce@rapidmachinery.com>
>To: <Malaboge@aol.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>; <shop-talk@autox.team.net>;
><vintage-race@autox.team.net>
>Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 6:42 AM
>Subject: Re: Sign-o-the-times
>
>
> > Hi from Australia Nick,
> > My son and I run a machine shop which makes very specialised printing
> > machinery. We have about 15 guys and you would be amazed that only the
>ones
> > over 45 years of age know anything about REAL engineering. Who's fault is
> > this? I can tell you it's a real shame that we bring our kids up to
>believe
> > that unless they are academics or computer nuts who shuffle money, stocks
> > and shares or something around on a screen for a living they have somehow
> > failed. The kids of today do not know about making things from common
> > materials like bits of balsa wood. They have to have it given to them as a
> > kit made in bloody Taiwan or Korea and no original thought is needed to
> > assemble it. My son is building a Singer Nine supercharged special using
>all
> > prewar or hand made parts, no MIG welding for him, all gas or stick or
> > rivets just like the good old days. My 18 month old grandson is helping
>and
> > is showing signs of being a car nut already so we may at least have one
> > craftsman available in the 2020's. A mechanic these days would not know
>how
> > to rebuild a part, all he is taught to do is go to the parts shop and buy
>a
> > replacement to "plug in". Sorry I can't help with a heat treater!
> > Sorry you touched a nerve,
> > Bruce Mansell, Brabham BT21, Lotus 22,
> >
> >
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