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Originally Posted by lksteve
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Sir’s, I agree. Blowing stuff up isn’t the only think that made me decided to become and engineer. I have always enjoyed taking stuff apart and seeing how it worked and putting it back together.
But there was one exception, I found a half way broke belt in my mothers bread making machine, I told her about the belt and asked her if I could have the bread machine. She answered me hurriedly, “yeah sure”. Thirty minutes later, I was getting yelled at, “you did what… that was my good bread machine”, I explained that she had told me earlier that I could have it, I showed her the belt and she was like “Nothing I can do now, its broke”. Trust me it was broke. The belt was shredded long ways into separate belts only connected at a few places by some kind of glue.
Once I took apart three remote control cars that where broke (various things wrong with them) and I built one that worked. It had so much duck tape on it that when it went into a deep rut in our driveway that was filled full of water, it floated.
Those are just a few things that I like to do, I am currently constructing a platform about 8 foot of the ground using trees that I have cut down and taken the bark off of. The tools I have used on it are; saw, ropes, machete, counter weights (old house window weights, used to counter the weight of the log when I left it up, works really well when you use the friction on the rope the correct way) knife, and tractor only to move the trees out of the woods.
Hope this makes things a bit clearer, if not just let me know and I will try again.
Have a great day, Sir’s