[AT] Where are the machinists?

[John Hall]

Ok either Walt replied to a message not on this list or this is the only one 
I have gotten on this thread.

John
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>I like that article, I started out as a  machinist in the Navy went to 
>school
> and worked on the ship in the machine shop  to make parts for the ship 
> that
> were hard to get or next to impossible.  We  had to learn the hard way 
> sometime
> to replicate a piece for the ship. I have  great respect for those who 
> work
> in little shops around the country at lower  than average wages making 
> parts
> for hard to find items.
> The last time I  worked as a machinist was in 1966, I was working in a 
> small
> shop on the  Sacramento River on a farm. We made tree shakers, they were 
> of
> the best quality  in the business but farmers were more interested in 
> price than
> quality so it  went belly up.
> Walt Davies
>
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