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Re: ID Needed on this Steam Launch
« on: May 19, 2020, 04:19:07 pm »
Oh how embarrassing.

Looks like George and I are similarly equipped, ie: Atlas 618 lathe (George appears to have the Craftsman tagged version) and steel surface plate with vernier & dial height gages. Yet he makes mechanical art, while I struggle to make parts worthy of sewer drain fittings.

I have occasionally done some good work, but it is extremely slow going and certainly doesn't come naturally in any way, in spite of my many years of exposure!

George makes it looks so easy! He told me he bought that little Craftsman lathe in 1969, the year I was born!

Looking around on George's bench there, I really don't see anything in the way of "magical" tooling, that I don't have something about equivalent to, so there must be some other key ingredient that I'm missing, like  ................  TALENT!!!
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