Posted by NCWayne on October 31, 2015 at 12:59:15 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Mechanical skils posted by Dan in Ohio on October 31, 2015 at 09:21:37:
I've been repairing equipment, welding, designing/fabricating, machining, and doing anything else I needed for over 25 years. I worked for others until I was about 32, then I worked for/with my Dad for about 10 more, and have been completely on for 6 going on 7 years now.
I stay busy as heck, and my customers think I can fix anything. Personally I don't think it's rocket science, especially if you have the ability to read a service book, and apply the knowledge gained from it into the work being done, as well as future, similar jobs. Like a man told me once, "There are only so many kinds of parts, it just depends on how you put them together, as to what they do....." Looking at things like that simplifies mechanics tremendously.
Now I can also do electrical work pretty good, but get into electronics, and computers, and I'm not completely dumb, but lets just say it's just not my thing.....LOL
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