[TheForge] Re: OLD

[Jerry Frost]

From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> Frosty> My older brother stopped counting @ 39...
>
> Like Jack Benny, eh? [1]  He was 39 for over 40 years.  My mother did
> even better.  Born on Feb. 29, 1904,  she died a bit short of her 25th
> birthday.
>

Naw, Jack Benny was funny sometimes.

> ObSmithing:
>
> Good day: located a free 60 gal. tank for the compressor project and
> got free advice from a pro [2] on how to make the motor work as I want.
> Off to the shop to re-assemble the motor and try it out.
>

Nice score. I salvaged three natural gas fuel tanks from work to use for an 
air res.

> - Mike
>
> [1] Of course, Frosty, you may not be old enough, at 68, to remeber
>    Jack Benny.
>

Heck, even counting by ones I'd remember Jack Benny. Of course counting by 
twos like I am I'm surprised I remember yeaterday.

> [2] Thirty years ago I really got into hunting up the Old Geezers who
>    had been forging, millwrighting, mechanic-ing, steamfitting,
>    tool-and-die making or whatever for 40 years, who were Wizards and
>    who Knew Everything.  This week I've been having trouble finding
>    one of those.  Suddenly dawned on me that now *I* am one of those
>    Old Geezer Wizards.  But wait!  There's so much stuff I don't know
>    yet!  Yow!
>
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>


A while back, a few of us coffee shop buddies were sitting around talking 
about the old timers and realized WE were the old timers. CRAP! Maybe I 
SHOULD'VE stopped counting. <sigh> I don't know half the useful stuff they 
did either.

Frosty
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