Hello fellow garage enthusiasts,
I have been wandering around this forum here and there.
I've grown to like it here however, so this is my first posting.
First, I'd like everyone to know how much I appreciate the climate within this forum. There is some really good information freely given, and not too much ego driven blather, but some real honest to goodness help.
I really appreciate that.
Very quickly, just for a little insight, I've always had an affinity for tools, probably because my father worked as a quarter master in the Kaiser Ship Yards in Richmond California building the Victory and Liberty ships during WWII.
After the war, he started a steel fabrication and machine shop in Mulberry Florida serving the phosphate and citrus industries.
My brothers and I were half raised in the shop and I was always fascinated by all of the machines (at one point, he had the largest steel shear in the south east, and a lathe with a 8 in diameter foot face plate), processes and noise.
My younger brother and I would go to Mulberry with him on Saturdays to the post office to check the mail and then to the shop. My brother and I would sneak out into the shop while our dad was checking the mail and books and mess around.
How we made it to this day with all of our eyes and fingers is beyond me.
My dad passed in an accident when I was 13, before I was able to gain (or fully appreciate) his knowledge.
My older brother (he was only 20) and my mother attempted to run the business for the next couple of years, but eventually had to close the doors and sell off everything except for a Lincoln 225 buzz box welder which was later stolen.
My brother started to show me how to weld when I was 15, but, this was short lived due to the shop closing.
While I never went into either trade, I went on to take diesel and agricultural mechanics at the local vo-tech school my junior and senior years in high school.
That was a LONG time ago.
Now, at rapidly aging 53, I would like to pick up where I left off.
(The problem is, the closest thing I have to my dads huge shop is my 22'X22' double car garage.)
Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute at least as much as I have and will gain here in the near future.
That being said, I have a couple of garage wiring questions that I would like to solicit feedback for from those with more insight than myself.
I will post them in the lighting & electrical section shortly.
Thanks for the great forum...
Mark C
I have been wandering around this forum here and there.
I've grown to like it here however, so this is my first posting.
First, I'd like everyone to know how much I appreciate the climate within this forum. There is some really good information freely given, and not too much ego driven blather, but some real honest to goodness help.
I really appreciate that.
Very quickly, just for a little insight, I've always had an affinity for tools, probably because my father worked as a quarter master in the Kaiser Ship Yards in Richmond California building the Victory and Liberty ships during WWII.
After the war, he started a steel fabrication and machine shop in Mulberry Florida serving the phosphate and citrus industries.
My brothers and I were half raised in the shop and I was always fascinated by all of the machines (at one point, he had the largest steel shear in the south east, and a lathe with a 8 in diameter foot face plate), processes and noise.
My younger brother and I would go to Mulberry with him on Saturdays to the post office to check the mail and then to the shop. My brother and I would sneak out into the shop while our dad was checking the mail and books and mess around.
How we made it to this day with all of our eyes and fingers is beyond me.
My dad passed in an accident when I was 13, before I was able to gain (or fully appreciate) his knowledge.
My older brother (he was only 20) and my mother attempted to run the business for the next couple of years, but eventually had to close the doors and sell off everything except for a Lincoln 225 buzz box welder which was later stolen.
My brother started to show me how to weld when I was 15, but, this was short lived due to the shop closing.
While I never went into either trade, I went on to take diesel and agricultural mechanics at the local vo-tech school my junior and senior years in high school.
That was a LONG time ago.
Now, at rapidly aging 53, I would like to pick up where I left off.
(The problem is, the closest thing I have to my dads huge shop is my 22'X22' double car garage.)
Hopefully, I'll be able to contribute at least as much as I have and will gain here in the near future.
That being said, I have a couple of garage wiring questions that I would like to solicit feedback for from those with more insight than myself.
I will post them in the lighting & electrical section shortly.
Thanks for the great forum...
Mark C
Welcome to the forum.