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Thinking Out Loud : a blog of sorts This is more of a running commentary on life than a blog. It is my chance to editorialize with no limits and no editors. Who Is Budd Davisson? A blog bio.
NET :. This means you may not be good Wooden Clinker Built Boats For Sale Pin at explaining them. My year-old step son is out of work and had an opportunity for a job interview that would require him to know how to MIG weld and repair ornamental and security steel work on rental properties.
He had never done either and asked me for help, which I was glad to do. Welding and steel work is my thing and MIG welding is incredibly easy learn, at least when doing the kind of work that would be expected of him. He went for the interview and was given an assignment to do a specific project and return it to the potential employer. Not a terribly complicated job but it would definitely show the employer how well he could work steel and how well he could weld. No big deal! Or so I thought.
He sat down, starting cutting with my favorite steel working tool, an angle head grinder with cut-off disks and I walked off. When I returned, he had cut the ends that were to be joined in a manner that had never even crossed my mind.
It would join the tubes in an externally clean manner but was structurally weak and required about ten times as much work for each joint as a simple miter would take. Or, failing that, simply use the 45 degree, sliding guide on the combination square I had loaned him. Neither possibility had occurred to him. Why did I automatically think to miter the corners? So, it was a no brainer. I walked away again, leaving him to make his cuts.
All he needed was to tack weld the corners, not finish welding, as he went, making sure each was square and not finish welding any joint until the entire cube was tack welded together. I do it on teaching gas welding all the time, but not on this. I had to stress that to hold dimensions when cutting, you have to make the decision to either leave the line, center it in the cutting wheel kerf or barely take the line.
Precision is the build-up of tiny details like that. However, whatever he learned from building that cube, I learned twice as much. In teaching it, I came away much smarter than I went in. It is, however, a little sad seeing how many friends have since passed. So, here it is. Images of the first day at a fly-in are hiding behind it. Hundreds of them. And after each one, a blank page stares at me expecting me to fill it. And each time, it somehow gets filled.
Just as this one will. As I sit here, free-associating and remembering, I think back to the people of the day. There were Mike and Margaret Wilson. Following not far behind, and often passing him, is Margaret, almost his age, in her fire-breathing TransAm. Everyone I know wants to be Mike and Margaret when they grow up.
Curtis Pitts, he who has made our lives so special with his little biplanes, asked Tom Poberezny, who was driving him, to stop, while he got out to said hi. I gave him a hug. How could I not? So many would like to do the same, so my hug was from all of us to the man who has given us so much. We miss you Curtis! We were delighted to see her.
She and Syd were there with the B and we made a date for dinner. There is so much about their lives I want to know.
But they have found gold in so many other ways. They are treasured friends. Someone was asking about Yak 55Ms, when I glanced up and saw Patty striding through the crowd towards me. Her smile was as wide as the ramp and as bright as the polished Mustang behind her. We were glad to see one another and she swapped hugs with The Redhead Patty calls her Marlooney and me.
Some people make you glad they are friends with nothing more than a smile and the sure knowledge that they are always there. Carl popped up unannounced and we were so glad to see him that the electricity was instantaneous. The words were short. The time even shorter. Gotta remedy that. Then was Jim. Or a couple of millenniums. At least a lifetime. We laughed. We picked on each other. It was an easy exchange in which we melded together as we always do.
Nothing particularly important happened, other than the fact that we were at home with one another. That was important enough. Fly-ins are people places, but, Wooden Clinker Built Boats For Sale Data of the thousands milling around, you know only a few of them. They are like grains of sand on a huge beach, but somehow, year after year, you keep running into them. Flying much? You never know, but you look forward to it. All of us know people whom we see only at fly-ins.
Sometimes we do, but not nearly often enough. The rest of the faces we search the crowd for might be labeled Fly-in Friends. They occupy a special corner of our hearts and minds and, even though time spent with them during the year can be measured in minutes, we see them as more than mere acquaintances. In all of these cases, our conversations are continuations of one we started last year. Or the year before. A few of those conversations have been in process since before the EAA Convention moved to Oshkosh in Added, up they probably total less than an hour in length.
As I look back over the first day of this fly-in, I realize it has been a full one. And a good one. We touched base with many points in our friendship circle so we feel as if the day has been well invested.
Fly-in friends make it that kind of a day. PS There were some airplanes there too. However, even I see some sort of symbology in that.
Both sides of the political aisle can be seen wearing baseball hats. No matter the politics nor the geographical location, every level of our culture and our society wears them. However, there seems to be a multi-level divide in how the bill should be curved. There are two basic bill shapes: curved with tightly-curved being a sub-set of curved , and absolutely flat. What do each say about the wearer? If anything. Maybe because of the similarity to a duck bill?
Absolutely Flat Bills. Wearing the hat with a stone-flat bill is, to me anyway, a new phenomenon. However, you never see them at rodeos, NASCAR races, honky-tonks, hotrod meets, shooting ranges, country music festivals, etc. Culturally, the right side of the aisle seems to want nothing to do with flat hat bills. Have you ever seen a gray dog wearing a flat-brim hat? However, increasingly, they seem to be the proper social attire for the young.
But, we all know how silly those folks are! Tightly Curved Bill: There are a couple of variations of the curved hat bill. They include mildly curved bills and curved-tighter-than-hell bills. Potato Head in one but I wear them when flying anyway.
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