7th grade shop project
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JetMech727
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Thats cool Jim.
Real question is how many beer's did it open while in HS?
Real question is how many beer's did it open while in HS?
choppedtop
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Pretty cool find. We made letter openers, cake server spatulas. Later we graduated into metal projects. Do they even have shop classes anymore?
fletcherson
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Roach clips? Meth pipes more like... sadly!
Neshkoro
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In our shop class we made the tack hammer, a small garden shovel and a key chain fob! I might still have the hammer. The only power tools we had in the school shop was a table saw ( that only the teacher was allowed to use), a band saw for wood and a drill press. Everything else was done by hand. A lot of hack sawing and filing!
Jim B
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I took a welding class in High School. The guys with money built stock racks, horse trailers and all kinds of cool big stuff. The rest of us who couldn't afford the metal just helped them.
Gerry
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We were given a 2" diameter piece of steel and given the task to make a 1" cube to pass through a 1" square hole. No machines allowed, all saw and files.
Finished piece was tested with feeler gauges on all 6 sides of the cube. Pass or fail came down to a 5 thou feeler.
Tuff times back then, but a few of us managed to get through it.
Gave us some skills that remained for life and seems to attract people who need and cant do this stuff for themselves. Its good to know there are some out there under 30 that want to learn and have the natural ability to do so.
I'm done for tonight so have a good evening guys n girls
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Finished piece was tested with feeler gauges on all 6 sides of the cube. Pass or fail came down to a 5 thou feeler.
Tuff times back then, but a few of us managed to get through it.
Gave us some skills that remained for life and seems to attract people who need and cant do this stuff for themselves. Its good to know there are some out there under 30 that want to learn and have the natural ability to do so.
I'm done for tonight so have a good evening guys n girls
G
JetMech727
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One of my projects from when I went to A&P school about 32 years ago. Started as a chunk of aluminum and a piece of bar stock. Had to complete the project under strict tolerance for every required segement of the exercise including vertical holes that required drilling & tapping. Even thread pitch and fit were graded. And only hand tools were allowed to be used. I remember a couple guys who tried to cheat & scored zero. One ended up washing out bout halfway through. We were required to complete projects for each class and it was half your grade for the semester. Welding, sheet metal, structures, wiring, paint, dope & fabric, etc, etc. Think I scored a 95 on that one. Was a fun time I thought. School had about a 35% washout rate. I was fresh out of the military at the time and went through pretty much the same schools before I made it to the flight line to work on F15's
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JetMech727
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I guess my point, as some others have stated here, the trades have kind of skipped a generation or two. We are hiring 25 new mechanics a week with the goal of 400 by end of year. These are to replace my generation who will be retiring in the next few years. Problem is some can't pass the hiring test, fail the required FAA random drug test or will washout during probation for various reasons. I think it's sad. So for all of us old timers that had the opportunity to experience shop classes in JRH & HS and the rich experiences we took away from it I tip my hat to ya. As I feel it is lost forever in our school systems today.
fletcherson
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Work ethic is a thing of the past too.
Neshkoro
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I started my work life as an apprentice Tool and Die maker. The training was a lot different than the old timers I worked with. With their training it was everything done by hand. A lot of working with a hand file. My training was a lot of theory. I learned to program and run one of the first NC milling machines. That was in the days of paper tape to input data into the machine control that was the size of a refrigerator! That was 50+ years ago. How times have changed.
JetMech727
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I have great respect for you tool & die guys Neshkoro. Our T&D guys have saved our butts on several occasions.
DonnyRay
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I made a tack hammer , cast aluminum ash tray ( looked like a miniature frying pan ) & a cast aluminum frog book end. The second semester the metal shop boys & home making girls were forced to trade places. So … my last semester was spent in home making class. So … the heads of education ( hope they all burn in hell ) decided to change an already working system. The school ( john marshal junior high in Stockton , ca. ) taught the former metal shop boys how to cook . The following school year was back to normal. Looks like their experiment failed. LOL !! This experiment was done at the metal shop boys & home making girls expense . A year before the metal shop / home making fiasco , I had a whole year of wood shop. All the school needed to do instead of forcing people to change classes ( mid school year ) , is to offer all these shop classes to both genders. Let them choose. Back then your education was gender specific.
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