Tradesmen: The New Name, The New Goal

Tradesmen: The New Name

I heard it at the introduction of the nite race at Bristol Speedway.

Someone said it…

Tradesmen.

I like it and I think it ought to be the new term used for either “learned skill” or naturally skilled professionally prepared people who are into what they do.

Whatever they do…

Tradesmen.

Be it whatever you are…

Whatever you are..

Be.

You Can… BE…

You build engines??
Or “want” to?
If not, I bet you’ve already run it thru you mind so many times you know it would be a “breeze”
So it ought to be something you go “learn” to do. Obviously you have a desire and probably a natural talent for it of you dream about it all the time…

After you build it…

You “have to” put it on the Dyno… run it thru it’s paces…

This is just the beginning…

If this is also one of your strong suits
Then…

Same thing,

Go sign up at the school they offer.

Tune and tweak??

How about polish??

How about weld??

Getting started anyway you can is
just that.

Getting started, standing just where you’re at… Right now.

Good Honest Challenging,
Ever-changing Jobs that are waiting

Paint?
Design?
Do you “know” Tubing?
Cope, stretch/Reshape??

Heck, you have to learn how to measure tubing…

Sounds crazy, but you measure tubing off centerlines. Not length.

How many times would it take to get that neck straight or that motor mount to have just that. “perfect” angle…
You don’t know until you “get the knowledge”

That sandpaper manufacturer…

He has some very special machinery designed and fabricated just to pour just the right amount of grit and glue…

“Somebody,” some Tradesman built that machine.

Have You ever seen a “factory”???

They’re on tv if you look.

Every machine in there is hand-made, designed to “manufacture” everything we use and need.

Some of these machines belong in some museum for the intricate details and hand-made moving parts…
These machines are as much of a work of art as anything else you might have seen in museum.

Tradesmen:

They Build “Everything”

Look at the edge of that window sitting next to you…

The technology in that thing is remarkable…

Don’t even get me started on what it takes to “make” 40 million Coke cans per day…

Stretched so thin,
Necked down to “save aluminum” which is a little “micro” amount of metal saved…

Perfect stretched so thin…

Man, what technology we over-look everyday.

I once visited Ball Metal (the mason jar peolle who have a Govermnent Contract making 85% of the nations pennies)

Zinc coils Smashed (rolled) to thickness

run thru a stamping machine that
Was an actual “blurr” to look at…

Multiple shovels full of penny blanks coming out of that thing every second…

Unbelievable…

How do you keep it cool?????

Technical problems…

All solved everyday with meetings, measurements, prototype,

After that, then pre-production try-outs,

Then Fixturing..

To make the prototype again…
In Large Numbers…

Faster

Or fast enough to:

Make money.

So there…

Ive Got right down to it….

Fast enough to Make Money.

With the help and support of properly equipped and trained Tradesmen

All of it is possible.

Well,

Got to get to work here…(in my mind anyway…)

I still hafta figure out how to harden that aluminum can with acid and electricity so I can seal that aluminum from that Coke (that stuff will dissolve a piece of meat steak).

Just to get it ready to assemble that pop-top on…

(another blog post I don’t look forward to… did I say I know A Lot of useless information??…haha)

Then get it ready for that multi-color custom paint job on it:

But first:

I’ve got to figure out how much rinse water I’m going to have to use to” rinse” that thing clean enough to:

Fill it up with that liquid Coke I haven’t made yet…

40 million times today…

And,

I still haven’t filled even “one.”

(I did “empty one” during the writing of this story so I’m “strongly” going backwards)

A Mans’ Work is Never Done…

Or,

So it seems…

Might as well get Paid For it,

Huh…

Makes sense to me.

Mike

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