[modeleng] Re: Engineering education - rant
- From: "Alan Stepney" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 21:28:08 +0100
I can agree with most of the posts on this subject.
However, I see it as an opportunity for us.
Model engineering is a hobby, like many, that can absorb as much cash as you
have available, so given the paucity of people willing and able to do the
occasional one-off, we can subsidise our hobby.
A few years ago a local firm asked me to make a pin, basically a 1/4" clevis
pin with a stepped shaft and circlip groove. It was an emergency and money
was no object.
The pin I made lasted longer than those from the maufacturers, so I was
asked for more.
Eventually I was making them in batches of 6, which I could do in an hour,
including set-up time and case hardening them.
At £10 each I was more than satisfied. Heck, I will willingly spend the odd
evening making £60 an hour!
That was the same as the makers of the machine charged, and mine lasted
longer.
( A lousy design and the pin was way over-stressed, but that is another
matter.)
So whilst British, American, wherever, industry might be collapsing, let us
take advantage of the situation.
.
Alan Stepney
http://www.alanstepney.info
Model Engineering & steam engine information pages
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