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05-25-2014, 03:24 PM | #61 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
This is pops of whom Tiny speaks.
I have always been the guy to buy the proper tool and try it myself. I usually end up with a new instruction manual, a new tool, a job I can say "I did it myself" and at a cost less than it would have been if it were farmed out to someone else. Sure I have made mistakes, but you learn and grow from those mistakes. I think it was Thomas Edison you said, It wasn't a failure, just 1000 things that didn't work when he was developing the light bulb. Something like that |
05-25-2014, 04:42 PM | #62 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I am a 4
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05-25-2014, 05:26 PM | #63 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I'm a 2.5 with a lot of help from a friend, actually many friends over the years, and the DANG thing will be finished some day. Progress is slow. Of course I don't pour babbitt and I won't win and awards, but my 19 RDSTR PU will look like a Model A, sound like a Model A and be driven in decent weather.
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05-25-2014, 05:27 PM | #64 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I'm a D, None of the above.
I'm not a mechanic by trade (Fmr. Electrical Engineer, RF microwave Engr. but have been doing UNIX/Linux/Engineering Programming the past 20 years for a buck... ) so Model A's are totally left of center field for me. A Model A is black box to me so it's a challenge and that's cool. I got a Model A that was restored and teaching myself what I can. I helped my late Dad as a kid rebuild his Ford 8N tractor and the engine is very similar. My hats off to all of those who have taken old rusty parts and made beauties... I'm really enjoying my Model A.
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05-25-2014, 05:36 PM | #65 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
Im a NUMBER 3, when I was 15 I got my first A in pieces and got it back together in good working order. that was in 1970 many years ago. Have learned a great deal about the A and AA's.
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05-25-2014, 07:12 PM | #66 |
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05-25-2014, 07:27 PM | #67 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I bought my first model A coupe a year before the legal driving age. Drove it two yrs in high school and sold it before going to college. Did a lot of self-taught engine work from late teens. After college, I joined one of the first Peace Corps groups in 1961, going to Chile where another volunteer and I set up a school teaching engine and farm machinery repair to rural young men. We rebuilt many tractor engines, both gas and diesel. At that time, I would have considered myself a firm No 3.
Now, more than 50 yrs later without ever touching a wrench to an engine during that time, I bought our '31 roadster. While now demoted to a No 2, there is nothing I won't tackle and hope to regain my No 3 status with the work needed to get our A In good shape after it sat in a garage for 19 yrs. It's good to get my hands greasy again! Thanks to all you forum guys and gals for your advice and input....... Glen
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05-25-2014, 10:33 PM | #68 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
No choice, I'm a three. I have to be. Because it is almost impossible to find anyone around here that is willing to even look at any of the old stuff. Even if you can find someone, labour rates of around $120 an hour will break you very quickly.
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05-26-2014, 02:05 AM | #69 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
Originally Posted by dumb person
[Quote]"i would like to be the guy that can smelt iron sand & make his own iron & mine the copper, spin it into wire and insulate it"[Quote] Don't forget the bauxite for the aluminum. Why do you think I said "4"? |
05-26-2014, 09:07 AM | #70 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I'm a 2 since I don't have the tools and space for big repair jobs, but I can tinker with everything else and learn from all the books and pester you guys for help!
I'm a -10 when it comes to electrical stuff, Tom Wesenberg has been my savior on Powerhouse generators!!
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05-26-2014, 08:43 PM | #71 |
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Re: Where do you fit in?
I am a 3. I have built a lot of old cars and trucks from the ground up for myself and others. The only thing I don't have the tools for is machine work.
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