05-08-2011, 10:37 PM
(05-08-2011, 09:00 PM)DODGERN Wrote: When I was at school . . .
I can't remember any electronics gear only woodworking and metalworking tools. I think the girls made cakes which they were allowed to take home.
Roger.
Brings back memories of a fireside set I made in metalwork class: shovel, poker and brush: the brush was a woodwork class exercise. (Almost everyone's homes were heated by open coal fires in those days). Manufacturing the metalwork parts involved using an oxy-actylene hand-held torch on a furnace with fire-brick, IIRC. And anvil work, too: hammering & bending red hot metal. Health and safety was a phrase that wasn't used then - as you can probably tell! You paid good attention (or else! :@ ) to what you were told and what was demonstrated to you - and used simple common sense. But I learnt a lot about the basics of 'smithery' - which has stood me in good stead right up to today.
Al.
