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Old 02-13-2017, 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by DieselDoctor View Post
Computers may be powerful, but the human minds that designed that mechanism were genius. No modern CNC mills and lathes to do the metal work either. Built by the skills of craftsmen who strove for perfection in everything they built.
exactly ... many a machine shop still has the manual machines and need people to learn how to use , them not unskilled x-y-z number punchers ... my neighbors are amazed on how I can do many things , basically my generation was the last of the high school trained trades persons or shop class kids .
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