Re: Hone grit

Posted by the tractor vet on September 29, 2023 at 09:05:15 from (108.220.145.239):

In Reply to: Re: Hone grit posted by Geo-TH,In on September 29, 2023 at 03:06:41:

Yep, USE to be here in town we had the Napa store and Penn Motors , We bought the head surfacer when the OLD guy retired as the young kids did not want to learn the trade . same went with Penn Motor . then another place closed up and another one by one closed . My one friend had one of the best machine shops with the latest equipment and was swamped with work and tried to teach his kid the trade but he did not have and interest and Dick suffered a major heart attach . He offered it to me but where was i going to come up with a quarter Mill. and build a new shop to move into , then ya also have to play the game with the EPA and they will hound you to death and fine you at the drop of a hat. He got nailed over his hot tank that had been used for many years and had to remove it have a Hazmat team come in and clean and haul it and the chemicals away at and outlandish price then spend gobbs of money on a new EPA APPROVED CLEANING EQUIPMENT AN PAY TO HAUL THE BY PRODUCT AWAY . All the GOOD old machine shops are now gone i think we are now down to just one left in the county . Young people don't want to get there hands dirty . When i was a kid working for the construction company We did everything in House as there was a complete automotive machine shop there and a couple OLD GUYS that knew everything IF a big engine went down and the crank needed turning it got pulled out in one side of the repair bays and wheeld back into the machine shop and placed on the crank grinder or if it needed welded up then it went onto the crankshaft welder , a block needed line bored then it got line bored . This is where i learned some of my skills along with my friend Dick .

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