Posted on 12/28/2014 12:12:37 PM PST by familyop
Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong...This year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are entitled ‘Sparks will fly: How to hack your home’ she is hoping it will inspire people to think what else they can do with common household objects...Ideas include using a magnifying glass and shoe box to turn a mobile phone into a rudimentary projector; how to use tin foil to make too small batteries fit correctly and how to turn a bottle of water into a lamp.
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LOL, your hatred of boomers makes you blind to reality.
An entire generation of people from 50 to 68 did not somehow miss out on designing, and creating and fixing computers and electronics, nor in doing things with their hands and contracting.
Space and science and electronics did not fade away for the last 20 or 30 years, waiting for the current under 40 year olds, to start inventing new things after a few decades of neglect.
You really need to get out more.
At least one Free Republic subscriber is a retired American chip maker, and he’s also a member of the generation before ours. With the exception of a few specialty shops run by younger folks, electronic hardware has been nearly all made in China or elsewhere for a long time.
I am a Baby Boomer, and everyone can see the general situation that most of our fellow Baby Boomers have created with crooked and libertine policies.
LOL, if you think that Americans don’t work on assembly lines assembling parts as much as they used to, then you are correct, especially the under 40 year olds.
Have you ever done the work of assembling screw drivers or some part, over and over, all day?
**”How many of us Baby Boomers have recently swapped or rebuilt a transmission or engine, done some welding or building construction?”**
Tons and tons do, do you really think that American men between 50 and 68 don’t do construction and weld things, work on their cars, do trades, build things in their shops and on their work benches, keep their motorcycles running?
There was a local church that had a VBS that attracted over 100 kids and many boys.
All the men of the church took the VBS week off and offered carpentry, engine repair snowmobiles, dirt bikes etc. and the like courses.
Great men of God reaching out to the local boys and
I’ve done production work, and I watched it shut down for the most part a long time ago.
You assembled little parts for instance a screw driver, over and over all day, standing in one spot?
What were you doing in your production work?
So it’s been close to 40 years since you wanted to do that work and outgrew it quickly? I understand, so does everyone else.
Now you do service work for a manager who is your age and smokes pot? What kind of service work?
After residential building slowed down, in manufacturing, I gained enough experience to do plate fab then custom machining (night school, etc.). But board investors moved the shops to Mexico, then China, etc.
How have you been keeping yourself alive all these years?
Duct tape and electrical tape rules the world LOL. The Gorilla tape is what I like best for all purpose though.
The nursing home had a real idiotic quirk someone years ago thought was a great idea and money saver. Healthcare facilities when they loose electrical power are supposed to be on back up generator. Within 10 seconds of failure it short have started and transferred to emergency generator.
In the construction phase sometime after a whole had already been put in the wall for a radiator someone decided to cool it via utility water instead. For two decades it worked then came the night the utility lost the entire substation up the street. That substation also powered the nearby utility pumping station and their back up generator failed. About 15 minutes into it the engine tripped on high temps and the nursing home was dark for several hours. It still remains in that same configuration as far as I know.
The transfer gear would sometime engage and sometimes not. When it didn't the spooky part was necessary. Whoever was on duty had to take a 2X4 and push the blades closed.
Yeah, you “said” they aren’t bad, but you sure didn’t seem to want to do them, and that was about 40 years ago, when you were young, how long did you do that job?
Then you said it was better than doing service work for a guy your age who smokes pot, so what kind of service work?
I don’t know what that means to you, you should be understanding it as lots, many, millions and millions.
Why don’t you want to say what kind of service work it was?
LOL! Yeah, carrying a 2x4 was a sure sign of a knowledgeable electrical technician.
And the leaves-contacts on those blade type switches would lose their shape after a while and not make a good connection. Causing heat that would make the connection even looser causing more local heating and a looser connection...
I remember one plant with grosses of repairable blade fuses and a jar of Vaseline to be used for some of it’s switchgear.
Talk about poor installation design, I worked at a new industrial laundry that had clothes dryers in an ‘energy-efficient’ no-leak building. LOL! Had an air source for the dryers installed within a week!
On the ship I saw several controller doors on the Chillers go flying off. They pulled about 1200 Amps at on start up. Same problem really. But on the ship I wasn't the electrician LOL.
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