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from adc's meme when i took metal shop in 1968 my projects that had to be completed were a dustpan, sledgehammer head, sheetmetal project displaying locking seams, brazing and soldering and a hunting knife these items demonstrated softening and hardening and tempering steel drilling milling welding brazing basic sheetmetal working sharpening drill bits and following your own blueprint anyone else had shop class
I took metal shop, learned a lot, had a notebook with a lot of important information that we had to turn in end of school for grading....went back to the shop teacher to get the notebook back and he had already thrown them out! royally teed me off.....
Shop classes didn't last much longer, another example of schools NOT "teaching" .....
Didn't matter, I worked in a hot rod shop through h.s. Really enjoyed that job, but I had ramblin' feet and couldn't wait to graduate and get out of town.
Both metal and wood shop plus auto shop between 72 and 77. Learned a bunch from great teachers.
I can still remember in the wood shop from the ceiling there was a long 2 x 4 all warped and twisted with a sign below it that said, "...always inspect your lumber...".
sheet metal stuff in 7th and 8th grade were tool tray I still have and use a roll paper holder for taking messages next to the phone on the kitchen wall
I recall a dust pan being an option for one of those projects but I didn't make the dust pan.
in High school , I made a miniature replica cannon , ball peen hammers , 2 pound cross peen hammer , drill vice , drill block, scribe, c-clamp , aluminum sand castings worked in brass , steel , cast iron , and aluminum , I know there were more projects I don't recall them all , those are all things I still have 30+ years later. did some early CNC programing , put every line in a note book and punch it all in with thumbs on the little 4 line screen. then run it in construction foam first so that if you messed up adn it crashed you could hit stop before you broke much.
welding was , stick , gas , braze , mig . even Mig was limited at the time we only had 2 MIG welders but the place I worked at had a Millermatic 250 so I got a bunch more time on it there.
I wish TIG would have been a thing at the time although it looks like it isn't that far off pushing a puddle with an oxy acetylene torch just an electric torch rather than gas.
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I was at my friend James's, watching him turn 6 large bolts, on a lathe, for a tractor. He finished the bolts after repeatedly checking them with his micronometer. He tried to put the first bolt in a hole and it wouldn't fit. He grabbed another bolt and it wouldn't fit either. He tried a third bolt and it also didnt work. He checked everything again with the micronometer. The bolts were all perfectly the right diameter. He buffed the bolts some and tried to insert one again and it wouldn't fit. He touched it up more and it still wouldn't fit. I looked at one hard and realized he had turned the threads the wrong direction on all 6 bolts.
Our High School didn't offer metal work, only wood work and cooking, I enjoyed both classes. The shop teacher was a family friend which was nice since I got some extra brownie points at times.
I still have 2 laminated bowls that I made, Walnut and oak. Learned how to use a lathe back in those years probably around 1967- 68 or so.Use them all the time for change and other odds and ends I collect thru the week.
Metal work and welding I learned thru trial and error over the years.
Knew a shop teacher that cut the ends off both middle fingers on one hand on a band saw. His fingertips were in a jar of formaldehyde in the shop display case. Pretty dramatic "pay attention to what you are doing" for those new to shop class.
Had vo-tec you could take from 10th to 12 grade . Gave you like two hours away from regular classes . Didn't have metal shops but had auto body , carpentry, robotics, nursing, culinary around one other I can't remember. Took auto body first two years because they had a welder and the. Culinary arts my last year
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