[Elecraft] Heathkit Returns!

[Kevin Rock]

When my dad got out of school after the war engineers were required to  
work on the factory floor until they got a promotion.  Then a while at  
foreman until the other engineers thought their training period was up.   
My father was a metallurgical engineer (MetE 49) who graduated from South  
Dakota School of Mines and Technology on the GI Bill.  He always told me  
his time on the foundry floor trained him more as an engineer than did all  
his class room experience.  The theory was great but without the practical  
aspects of working with materials it was hard to put into practice.  My  
father was a green sand molding expert and later worked developing plasma  
coating tools, foamed metals, and a variety of non-ferrous alloys.
    73,
       Kevin.  KD5ONS



On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:08:16 -0700, Edward R. Cole <kl7uw at acsalaska.net>  
wrote:

...

>
> I agree with the singular good thing they accomplished was
> establishing good procedures for building (start by reading, count
> and inventory, don't jump ahead, check-check-check again).  Twelve
> years after becoming a ham building Heathkits, I was writing maint.
> manuals on the weapon systems in the F-14.  I'm sure that early
> imprinting of good procedures helped.  The fact that I actually knew
> what the component looked like and did, was a leg up on my fellow
> college mates that had only seen math on a chalkboard.  Working as an
> engineering tech for 2-1/2 years before becoming an engineer, also
> gave me great insight into "realities"!   Later, I worked another
> 25-years as a tech., enjoying it more than pushing paper as an  
> "engineer".
>
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45
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