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Old 04-17-2013, 04:47 PM
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Old 04-17-2013, 07:21 PM
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Reminds me of the machine shop I worked in just out of high school... but without the commitment.
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Old 04-17-2013, 08:04 PM
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Reminds me of the machine shop I worked in just out of high school... but without the commitment.
Just think of where you would be now if you had made a commitment to succeed there ... slacker!
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That's pretty cool. Dever spring in Santa Ana CA still uses (or a few years ago they did) their old belt driven tools.

Very similar old steel building and tool set up. It is way cool to see it in operation in person.
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"Here the apprentice isn't some reality TV show, it's the most important position on staff"

"This isn't how things work any more..........but maybe it should be"

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We used to deal with a crankshaft/machine shop place down in LA that was a tin building with dirt floors, old school machines, they even still had a dail phone hard lined to the wall LOL He did awesome work
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