Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc Yes, I have a machine shop; milling machine, lathe, with all the goodies to machine small stuff. I have the stuff to cut gears, threads etc. Full size and miniature drill press. No heat treat furnace though or welding stuff 'cause I used to get those things done at work. Jerry Marc James Small wrote: > At 04:50 PM 2/21/03 -0500, bdcolen wrote: > >Or, to put it another way... > >Real photographers don't make gears; real photographers make > >photographs. :-) > > Well, I guess BD has just put paid to the idea of the Renaissance Man. Me? > I can take pictures, process them, write books, drive a car, cook one hell > of a pan of fried chicken, discourse on single-malts, use a lathe and drill > press, instruct you on the course of the Russian Revolution, teach you > ancient Greek or Latin, paddle a kayak or a canoe, show you the Zodiac, and > explain what the US Constitution means, in words of one syllable or less > <he grins>. > > You really should re-read Heinlein's TIME ENOUGH FOR LOVE. He lists the > above, and some other things which I cannot do -- such as driving a > starship through null-space -- as the mark of a real person. All others > are fakes. > > I suspect that most of the folks on this List are capable of cutting a > simple gear-wheel to precise tolerance on a decent machine lathe. Almost > all of us are old enough to have had shop in junior high rather than the > current rage of putting girls through shop and boys through Home Ec. > > Stay flexible, BD. > > Marc > > msmall@infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 > Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html