Fabricating For Dummies

Chapter 17

(Almost) Ten Ways to Be a Better Fabricator

IN THIS CHAPTER

Embracing the whirlwind

Getting organized

Respecting the machine

Going back to school

Staying safe and cleaning up

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

— RENE DESCARTES

If you read the first 16 chapters, congratulations! You’re almost finished (or maybe, you’re just getting started). If so inclined, you’ll soon be able to set another completed book on the bookshelf before celebrating with an ice-cold piña colada. And if you’re one of those readers who skips to the end of the book to figure out whodunit (my wife is one), that’s okay, too. Feel free to peruse the rest at your leisure.

However you go about reading it, hopefully this book has taught (or will teach) you a few things. Manufacturing overall and especially sheet-metal fabrication is a noble, most excellent trade, one that helps to keep our homes warm, our cars safe, our daily chores ...