What else can you ?( what talent do you have)

[USMilitaryGuy]

Great! I love it. Is it for sale?

It might be quite awhile before it becomes available - I hope.

Please check with the Executor of my estate.

[free1954]

USMILITARYGUY. that safe is one impressive piece of work, what's the fire rating?

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It might be quite awhile before it becomes available - I hope.

Please check with the Executor of my estate.

HA HA HA

[USMilitaryGuy]

USMILITARYGUY. that safe is one impressive piece of work, what's the fire rating?



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HA HA HA

It is built with double wall construction. There is about one inch of "air" between the walls. I had to do that to make it look right and allow the door to be recessed in the body as well as having a place for the bolts to latch. I put a handful of marbles in the space so it will make noise in case someone decides to pick it up and carry it off. It only weighs about 30 pounds.

I used 1/2" cabinet grade (A-B) plywood. I expect it would burn through in about ten minutes if sitting in a fire - probably less with a cutting torch.

[Sunray]

I cook and plan meals(we do notwash dishes or clean anything!). Usually for large numbers, but not recently. Just don't get the panic other people get into over Xmas and/or Thanksgiving dinner. 20 plus people is nothing. Except for having enough plates, silverware and chairs. That's not my department. Helps to have a few big pots though.
Engineered the construction of a 15 x 15 x 9.5 tent with 6 foot walls too. Used to play with a large Medieval recreation group. Buying a tent that big runs about $1600US with no poles or ropes or any of the bits required to actually use the thing. Cost me about $800Cdn to build the thing, complete. Got a smaller 6 foot high, U.S. Civil War OR's tent out of the 100 yards of treated 10 ounce canvas too.

[Former Cav]

used to be good at overhauling carburetors, now all the parts come in a blister pack and half the time are the wrong stuff. Glad I'm out of that business as the solvents really raised heck with me.
Was a pretty good tune up artist back in the day too, but those days are LONG gone. I open the hood of my daily ride now and say "whats that?" GRIN.
Used to be good at drafting and design and customizing auto-cad. Actually learned "auto-LISP" programing but most managers didn't even know what they were looking at let alone appreciating any of it.
I once automated a deal for a bunch of "similar parts" in the medical manufacturing industry. I wrote a program in 80 hours. It got each drawing complete DONE in 6 minutes versus two to three in an 8 hour day depending on if I had to go to a mindless meeting or not. My boss was MAD at me as I "wasted 80 hours". MORONS.
I thank God every day that I am retired!

[Jim in Salt Lake]

I can repair any type of IBM typewriter from the model 01 (came out in 1933) to the Selectric Mag Card II. None of this stuff is in use anymore and nobody is collecting them. Still have some tools, manuals, and parts that I should throw out but just can't do it. A local gunsmith here uses an acid etching process to do numbering and lettering on rifle actions and barrels. He uses a Selectric to type on a wax stencil to begin that process and I've fixed those typewriters a couple of times for him. I gave him a Selectric I had in the basement because I hadn't even turned it on in 20 years. However, those mechanical skills have served me well over the years working on other things.

[Major Tom]

As mostly a hobby for me, I build handgun display boxes out of solid red oak with walnut accents. I will build to a customers specifications as to size and color of interior cloth. I build them one at a time, usually takes 2 weeks as I work on them for only a couple hours per day. I have shipped them to people all over the country.

[Ken The Kanuck]

I can repair any type of IBM typewriter from the model 01 (came out in 1933) to the Selectric Mag Card II. None of this stuff is in use anymore and nobody is collecting them. Still have some tools, manuals, and parts that I should throw out but just can't do it. A local gunsmith here uses an acid etching process to do numbering and lettering on rifle actions and barrels. He uses a Selectric to type on a wax stencil to begin that process and I've fixed those typewriters a couple of times for him. I gave him a Selectric I had in the basement because I hadn't even turned it on in 20 years. However, those mechanical skills have served me well over the years working on other things.

Jim,

One of the things I liked to do with my kids was to take them down stairs on a rainy day and let them take things apart. It taught the kids some valuable lessons and gave them a comfort with mechanical things.

The very best thing we ever took apart by far was a manual typewriter. Those things are amazing, all the intricate parts working together. I truly appreciate what a work of wonder they are.

Hopefully I can find one to take apart with my grandkids.

We never got anything back together again but it didn't seem to matter.

KTK

[dave]

I worked as a 'rotating equipment vibration analyst'. With the right equipment you can tell what is wrong with a pump, motor, or any machine which goes round & round and vibrates. That was 20 years ago, I'm sure it is much more advanced now!

[Allen]

I worked as a 'rotating equipment vibration analyst'. With the right equipment you can tell what is wrong with a pump, motor, or any machine which goes round & round and vibrates. That was 20 years ago, I'm sure it is much more advanced now!

At the refinery I worked at that started out as a job for a specialist. Then it became a duty of our maintenance dept. Then it became part of our routine duties as a operator. A magnetic probe was placed on specifically marked areas of the inboard and outboard bearing areas of pumps, motors and turbines. We would record it with our portable hand held monitors and later download it to one of the PC's in the control room to the "system" where it could be viewed by the engineers and stored as a record. The sensor picked up vibrations and heat. Our larger more crucial equipment had permanent probes that recorded straight to the operating consoles in the control rooms along with alarm points.

As an operator we were the only ones that were in the operating area of the refinery 24/7/365 so as time went on we ended up doing most everything except overhauling of equipment.