Chapter 1
Climbing the Manufacturing Ropes
IN THIS CHAPTER
Understanding why machining is better than cake and ice cream
Making chips (not the kind you eat on the couch watching sitcoms)
Deciding on your next job title
Resurrecting all the people they didn’t tell you about in history class
Figuring out pulleys, gears, and other mechanical stuff
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman’s heart.
—OSCAR WILDE
Why should you care about machining, anyway? Everyone knows it’s back-breaking work, performed in dark, dirty warehouses for inadequate pay. Worse, it’s dangerous — remember Uncle Bob, who smashed his finger in a drill press that one time? Young people coming out of school these days probably think it’s far better to find a nice, safe office or retail job, one where the biggest risk is a paper cut or a stomachache from the cafeteria food. Besides, all the ...
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