Yes, we baby-boomers don’t know a thing about this stuff! We have to call in somebody if the toilet acts up!!! How different from my father’s generation.
‘we baby boomers’
You must have a mouse in your pocket, miss marmelstein.
When I was first married and money was tight, I brought the carburetor from a Dodge 318 engine into the house and following the instructions, installed the re-build part kit, put it back on the engine and it ran like a top.
Just yesterday I installed some cool Magpul stuff on my only Christmas present that many might consider gunsmithing.
With all due respect ya da da da ... speak for yourself.
Most of the people I know fix things and handle themselves.
Think like a conservative: lefties think like hapless losers.
Just sayin’, don’t get mad.
That might be what you think as a female New Yorker, but out here in flyover country, boomers do lots of trades and repairs and hobbies involving such.
Tools are immensely popular among those age 50 through 68.
My husband died in 06 so I have learned to do things around the house he did. Our power went out so I thought I was being very careful by putting a 3 wick candle in the bathroom sink. That thing melted and ran in the drain. I got down on the floor and looked at the drain. I knew I could take that thing apart to get the harden wax. I took it apart, got that wax out and put t back together. It did not leak! I saved a plumbers bill.
My son can rebuild any Vehicle from a go-cart to a D9 Cat, must be a genetic transfer from his GGrandfather. Has trouble driving a nail though.
My father was a jock in College, MBA, during the Depression, had problems with mechanical stuff.
“We baby boomers”
Nah, growing up baby boomers had the chemistry sets and the crystal radio sets. Generally we have good all-around tech skills.
The generations before us had far superior repair skills, they had more that they could repair.
Today’s kids have nothing they can repair to learn how things work. They have no opportunity to learn except in school.
I'm a baby boomer and am the complete opposite. It has been my experience that age (young/old/middle) makes little difference in whether a person is mechanically inclined, so to speak.
This is for those of you, who indicated that you might have at least a passing interest in seeing it. It’s completely free. Sorry, if I left anyone out. For any of you deciding to build it, be very careful. Make sure that it’s fastened to the floor and well supported, in my opinion. And follow all of the usual machining precautions.
The Multimachine
http://opensourcemachine.org/
The E-Book
http://opensourcemachine.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/how_to_build_a_multimachine1.pdf
HTML Version E-Book
http://opensourcemachine.org/mm2html2/How_to_build_a_multimachine.html
Associated YouTube Video (further explains the e-book and interesting for those, who only want to see what it is without building anything like it).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eurX6r83X3w
Discussion Board (lots of useful upgrade and other info)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multimachine/join
For hobbyists, artists and small parts makers, there’s also the Gingery Lathe, which was designed to be built at home. All kinds of information for that can be easily obtained with a quick search.
Here’s another project. It’s administered by much more highly educated young folks and has been ongoing for a long time.
http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/gvcs-machine-index/
We have to call in somebody if the toilet acts up? You’re joking, right?
I dunno. I'm a lady, I'm a boomer, and I have more tools than Home Depot. Much depends on your lifestyle and your location. Personally I live in dread of not being able to fix stuff, because that makes me so helplessly dependent.