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kleinbl00  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Glorious Feeling of Fixing Something Yourself

Oh, man. If he doesn't know about Dave Gingery you've got your Christmas gifts covered 'til rapture. There's something joyous about machine tools that woodworking or plastics just can't touch.

I've actually never been on those boards before; I was looking up a "Wheatstone Audioarts LM-80" for some other conversation on Reddit and stumbled across that thread, live. The amazing thing is two days later the guy who pulled the board back in '96 showed up.





coffeesp00ns  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

| I've actually never been on those boards before; I was looking up a "Wheatstone Audioarts LM-80" for some other conversation on Reddit and stumbled across that thread, live. The amazing thing is two days later the guy who pulled the board back in '96 showed up. |

that's amazing. Also, i'll ask him about Dave Gingery>

kleinbl00  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Don't ask. If he had a vast assortment of "crotchety-old-man-with-a-metal-shop books" you'd know.

Gingery has a series of books that's basically "how to turn beer cans and used shovels into a mutherfucking car factory." Sucka does not fuck around.

coffeesp00ns  ·  4009 days ago  ·  link  ·  

He DOES have a ridiculous amount of back issues of Home Shop Machinist, but i don't recall Gingery's name. I think I know what he's getting for father's day.