jumbojak Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 What's wrong Thomas? This is just a nibble of cheesy fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted December 2, 2015 Share Posted December 2, 2015 Well it referred to the petunias and not the whale...but it's quite a tail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 On 12/1/2015, 7:05:12, Charles R. Stevens said: I was the geeky looking kid with glasses, braces, shorter than the girls and skinny as a rail... school was not fun I was the fat kid, with his nose stuck in a book. I don't think school was fun for anyone. Only the filter of time makes it seem so ..... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted December 3, 2015 Share Posted December 3, 2015 Yep, book worm. Smart in school dumb on the bus about summes me up then. Then again I raced 3 whealers, motercycles and dune buggies when not in school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gote Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 ALWAYS put nuts and bolts back as soon as the part they hold is off. - and take photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Jones Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 On 03/12/2015, 11:54:50, SmoothBore said: I was the fat kid, with his nose stuck in a book. I don't think school was fun for anyone. Only the filter of time makes it seem so ..... . I was the kid with a report card that said . "Could do much better" I still managed to finish college then university Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwolfforgeca Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 when my mind go's blank its time to change / fill ink carriage spent my school years in the shops elec 6 years & wood & machine & drafting LOL NO not auto I hate to work on cars !!! thought I can mostly mine I was a straight D student NO interest in the 3 R's -- was the go to kid in the shops though ! A+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 Low grades for me was due to bordum, why do the dang home work for a week when i could ace the test after mondays lecture? spent most of my shop class years building tools cabnits, gigs and tables for the shop and counters for the office. Learned to do laminet with hardwood trim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothBore Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 When I was in High School the Printing Industry was still a major employer. ( Nobody had a clue that the various "photo-copy" processes were about to turn that whole Industry on it's head. ) The Print Shop Teacher was a very "hard-nosed, old school guy", who demanded "adult" behavior from his students. He didn't often get it from High School Freshmen, ... and therefore, he had a reputation for "failing" everyone who took his class. But I'd been raised in an equally "old school" kind of home, ... so rigid expectations were nothing new. ( I got "C's" in His class, ... and got chewed-out at home for doing so poorly, ... and didn't know until years later, that those were the highest grades He EVER awarded. ) It was His recommendation that got me my first "real" job, ... and that, in turn, eventually lead to being accepted into the Pratt Institute, School of Engineering. ----------------------------------------------------------- No, ... I NEVER did any homework either ..... ( Or rather, ... I'd do it in class, as soon as it was assigned. ) In those days, I was "all about" off-road motorcycles, ... and needed my "free" time, to ride, ... and do maintenance on the bikes. ------------------------------------------------------- And I too despise working on any car made after 1970. ---------------------------------------------------- There's always been a lot of talk about "individuality", ... but I think we're ALL a very similar type people. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 4, 2015 Share Posted December 4, 2015 On 12/1/2015, 7:13:28, ThomasPowers said: Oh no; not again! That's another thing about the mice. Oh NO, gnawed again! Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 Is that grumpy or crazy smooth Bore? To smart for our own good strikes a cord as well... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwolfforgeca Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I still look back to this day about a 3 min interview in a mom & pop welding shop Yep you're hired start welding today WHAT ? LOL still had a trucking job elsewhere I really like & had to quite I like to drive going the trucker way as a kid then Didn't know anything about welding !!!!!!!!! but there was a hidden talent a need that took years for me to understand not even sure if they saw that but they saw part of it that I know now so now i look for that in kids & anyone that has the Want ! & the Need ! for steel & HOT stuff & I thank all the folks here for adding to that NEED of mine ! what I see Wrong !! is the shops are gone from the schools mostly & that will come back & bite the USA That Must change ! when you have tell a person what a screw drive is were in BIG trouble ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 5, 2015 Author Share Posted December 5, 2015 i was alot like everyone else. was a jock gearhead. straight A's in auto took the ASE auto test as a sophmore and was an ASE Mechanic (sorry auto technision). did alot of custom cabinets in high school and wood framing. across the parking lot in "the school" was good in science, physics, art, chemistry, band and music not much else. Smooth Bore you got to at least go to "72" my auto project was a 1972 442 that 455 that we ran off propane. we would take it to the strip on the weekends in the summer or in the spring when there was not a track meet. favorite car i grew up in though is still our 1956 chey nomad. only problem with it is dad loved fire engine red I still don't like red. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I enjoyed my school years, did reasonably well in all subjects except for French, the only language class option......which I cunningly wangled my way out of.... Aced "metalwork" where I got to step it up from the usual enameled copper key fobs to casting alloy statues. I was payed to keep the teachers cars on the road, sold them my artwork and taught some of them to sail, including the sports "mistress", who was also the captain of the England Women's Basketball team........ All in school time, what was not to like about it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlotte Posted December 5, 2015 Share Posted December 5, 2015 I never did well in school Until I got 7th grade. I was science addict from the earliest days I can remember. I always liked the big toys the expensive toys. The one's I wasn't supposed to touch.! You know the toys that actually did something like saws, real hammers, screw drivers axes. When I started algebra, and geometry and biology and General science things were looking up for me. English now that was another matter until they got over that grammar/spelling kick. Last two years of High school were good enough to get me a scholarship for my first year of college. I was lucky. My dad refused to pay anybody for anything he thought he could do himself. He was a talented carpenter, mechanic, draftsman who couldn't afford engineering school in the 20's so he went to work in railroad freight management and became and Industrial developer. When he looked around for an extra hand or a good pair of eyes there I was. I spent as much time in the garage or the basement with him as I did in books or cooking. ( My mother despaired of ever teaching me to sew with needle and thread. But sewing machine that was a different matter) I was promoted to Laboratory supervisor in my longest job mostly because I was the person that understood how the machinery and the plant worked as well as the lab instruments and could fix and/or diagnose the problem when things went south. For what ever reason I seem to have a talent for understanding how things work and how to fix them when they don't I blacksmith weld etc. because I've loved hot Iron since I saw the steel mills in Pittsburgh PA dumping slag in the distance in the evening. I used to see it every night that I played outside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 to turn this all around again, I GOT THE SHEAR BACK TOGETHER!!!! it took setting by a friends. but it is back together Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 And you must have been so excited you forgot to take a picture? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 i will get pics today!! yes i was and i did not have the ipad to take pics. i was 3 minutes from being late to my wifes dinner party. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ironwolfforgeca Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 So if you're late to diner does the Wife take you're i pad away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 6, 2015 Author Share Posted December 6, 2015 no it is her ipad and she will ground me from the shop. it was a dinner with her boss. plus the ipad was in the house and i was down at the shop. ok here is the pic of the shear, i think that the handle bracket might be upside down?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted December 6, 2015 Share Posted December 6, 2015 Nice looking shop! And Dang that place is clean! However, a "WHITE " set of chisel holders, probably also hand crafted by the owner of the iPad? You seem to have your ducks well and truly lined up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matto Posted December 7, 2015 Author Share Posted December 7, 2015 Ianinsa, just did pre winter cleaning just got done with 5 174" display racks. I do the sewing in the family. The tool holders just got washed. Cleaned up so she will come down and start hoop dancing again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted December 7, 2015 Share Posted December 7, 2015 4 hours ago, matto said: Ianinsa, just did pre winter cleaning just got done with 5 174" display racks. I do the sewing in the family. The tool holders just got washed. Cleaned up so she will come down and start hoop dancing again. As they say" plausible but questionable " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Plausible is good enough for me I have a great imagination. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles R. Stevens Posted December 8, 2015 Share Posted December 8, 2015 Is hoop dancind related to pole bending?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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