[Milsurplus] Shipboard machine shop

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

Regarding high school machine shop courses, my high school of Ridgewood, NJ had a machine shop but the machines lay dormant as there where no qualified instructors on the staff. The town had long since transitioned from a rural village (I'm told Linwood Ave. was once a cow path) to an almost entirely "white collar" community (although they still insist on calling it a village).  Far be it that those parents should allow their college bound kids to learn any manual skills.  It's more important to pass the S.A.T.s than learn how to operate a Bridgeport milling machine or a Southbend lathe. As for myself, I'm entirely self-taught from reading and doing.  Mike, W6MAB

 
> On September 29, 2020 at 2:35 PM CL in NC via Milsurplus <milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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> The comment about shipboard machine shops and building stuff from scratch rang a bell.  I have a manual from the 1930's NYC School system, it is their high school machine shop course. In it are pictures of the classrooms, full of lathes and milling machines.  In the course, you as a high schooler, build several things, including the complete build of a single cylinder gas motor, similar to a horizontal shaft Briggs and Stratton.  All have bills of material and some procedures that are unique to that particular build, each item teaching another step in machine use and technique, culminating in that motor build.  Quite amazing what we used to teach high schoolers back then.  Now, I'm sure, school boards would live in fear of the little babies getting hurt.
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> Charlie, W4MEC in NC
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