I was a software engineer for a major company for 25 years but in my earlier days, I was a diesel mechanic and machinist for 16 of my 63 years.
Metal working has been in my blood for years. I spent many years working toward getting the equipment that I wanted an a building to put it all in. Now, I have almost all the equipment and a really nice building right behind my house. So, I am really set to go now doing some metal work.
I have a gas forge, metal band saw, acetylene torch, AC welder and a TIG welder. I also have a Bridgeport milling machine and a metal lathe along with a full shop of wood working equipment. I am a machinery junkie I guess.
In the past my wood and metal working experience was vast as most of the time, when I worked for a company doing metal work, I did not have all the equipment I needed to do the work that was requested so I had to get pretty good and figuring out some way of doing the work without the optimal final solution therefore I learned about blacksmith methods of hardening steel and making metal objects such as huge hinges for 200 gallon hot water tanks...etc. Go see Al, he will figure it out.
No malice about figuring it out. All that made me learn a lot of stuff by reading. I love to learn and develop new skills.
I went to machine shop school back in the day and learned plenty in school. I learned more on the job but I was given the right tools in school to at least figure my way out of a wet paper bag.
I like cars and doing some body work on them when it is needed...etc. I have built more diesel engines and gasoline engines than most folks have passed on the highway. I also did heavy transmission work for trucks back in the day.
Blacksmithing, Welding, Electronics, Electrical, Computers, Woodworking
Metal working has been in my blood for years. I spent many years working toward getting the equipment that I wanted an a building to put it all in. Now, I have almost all the equipment and a really nice building right behind my house. So, I am really set to go now doing some metal work.
I have a gas forge, metal band saw, acetylene torch, AC welder and a TIG welder. I also have a Bridgeport milling machine and a metal lathe along with a full shop of wood working equipment. I am a machinery junkie I guess.
In the past my wood and metal working experience was vast as most of the time, when I worked for a company doing metal work, I did not have all the equipment I needed to do the work that was requested so I had to get pretty good and figuring out some way of doing the work without the optimal final solution therefore I learned about blacksmith methods of hardening steel and making metal objects such as huge hinges for 200 gallon hot water tanks...etc. Go see Al, he will figure it out.
No malice about figuring it out. All that made me learn a lot of stuff by reading. I love to learn and develop new skills.
I went to machine shop school back in the day and learned plenty in school. I learned more on the job but I was given the right tools in school to at least figure my way out of a wet paper bag.
I like cars and doing some body work on them when it is needed...etc. I have built more diesel engines and gasoline engines than most folks have passed on the highway. I also did heavy transmission work for trucks back in the day.
Blacksmithing, Welding, Electronics, Electrical, Computers, Woodworking
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