"Frogwatch" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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"Don White" wrote in message
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Gene Kearns wrote:
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This is a *BIG* hot button for me, but this is endemic of no longer
teaching real Industrial Arts in our public schools. Higher
education,
from mechanic programs, to engineering programs, to medical programs
all suffer from incoming students that have, in too many cases, never
even held a tool in their hands..... and in almost all cases, save
some rural areas, lack any real experience in using tools or in
dealing with the logic required of fixing everyday items that need
repair or adjustment.....
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You got that right!
When my two sons were in jr high, they had to take homemaking courses
half the year and shop the other half. The pc crowd decided that the
girls whould have equal time hammering, cutting etc. while the boys
learned baking, etc.
I don't mind if the girls want to take shop, but don't force the boys
to be Suzy Homemaker unless they want to.

So you figure the women will be the kitchen slave. Not much more
pathetic
than a guy who has to go to Burger King because he can not cook
anything!


Even dumber: Guys in college who didn't know how to operate a washing
machine.

Stainless steel DOES react with aluminum but I am not sure what to do
about it. There is a material you can buy at marine stores to separate
ss parts from Aluminum but am not sure if this is used on bolts.


It is called anti-seize. And the best for aluminum is Nevr-seize.