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Re:How to Build a 50K Ton Forging Press by hinkley on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @05:53PM (#41314555)
There is a lot of stuff you can do when it’s pass fail. As a pro you have a time limit and you’re bad if you can’t rebuild in X hours.

My dad will tell you I helped him rebuild a bike coaster brake at 14. But the truth is the only decision he made was to buy the repair kit. I got rags and laid all the parts out like an exploded diagram, we cleaned them or swapped them and they went back in the way they came out.

I worked as a bike mechanic for two summers in college. Cars have manuals and maybe the mechanic you work for has them. Bicycles do not. You’re all shade-tree until you’ve seen everything a couple times.

Re:How to Build a 50K Ton Forging Press by kragen on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @06:54PM (#41314979)
yeah. thank god for sheldon brown
Re:How to Build a 50K Ton Forging Press by hinkley on Wednesday August 21, 2024 @09:43PM (#41315917)
I was more of a Brandt boy myself.