"I STILL USE A NIBILING TOOL, FILES, SMALL DRILL PRESS, SHEET AND ANGLE
ALUMINUM, SPRAY PAINT, AND ETC"
Ten years ago, I visited a third world country where gasoline was $4.00 per
gallon and annual incomes were almost nothing. Yes, it was a socialist
country. I stayed with a family and after dinner, the husband took me to
his workshop to show me his pride and joy - a 1954 Buick. He could not
afford gasoline and so took the 8 cylinder out and replaced it with an
abandoned Romanian 4 cylinder tractor engine. I was rather surprised that
he could get an adapter plate machined and inquired about it. I learned
that there was no machine shop and he had made the adapter plate himself. I
asked him what tools he used. He answered a file and a drill. How long did
it take? He still had a bucketfull of shavings and replied "about 6 months,
working every night."
Last year, a neighbor showed me a Native American granite hammer he found in
a nearby stream in about 1948. It looked like it was made with a CNC
machine.
My first projects were made of wood. I made a regenerative reeiver with a
nice wood front panel. However my hands changed frequency when I got near
the dial. I solved that easily with some aluminum foil behind the wood.
Until I was able to do metal work, most of my cabinets were wood shielded
with aluminum foil.
I am thinking about an inlaid wood art deco am rig one of these days -
shielded, of course - this time with copper circuit board.
73, Colin K7FM.
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