On Sunday 20 September 2015 13:23:31 N. Christopher Perry wrote: > I wouldn't call that shade tree mechanics: I'd call it Yankee > ingenuity! > > N. Christopher Perry
Well, I'll have to plead guilty to having a lot of old Iowa farm kid blood in me. :) Direct descendent of a Madison County Iowa (yeah, where Steep and Eastood made out all those years ago in "Bridges") farmer who had a 32 volt windcharger/delco electrical system for household lighting, and also ran the washing machine after the maytag kicked back and broke grandma's ankle. By then he had already put in several years as Superintendent of schools in Waukee Iowa, and his 2nd daughter, my mother, was the only girl in the class on aviation technology at Des Moines Technical High school, in 1929. That man could do anythiung, including hand carving a new blade for the windcharger that out-performed the replacement blade he was able to order from the catalogs of the day. And it only took him about a day & a half from the native oak 2x6 he had sawed on his own saw mill that he started with. Including varnishing it and balanceing it. Had to he said, the batteries were running low. That was my grandpa. :) [snip] Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
