XPost: alt.home.repair, uk.d-i-y, sci.electronics.design   
   From: steve@walker-family.me.uk   
      
   On 25/02/2023 08:40, alan_m wrote:   
   > On 25/02/2023 07:33, Rob H wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> Yea, like most people has a lathe, a welder machine and cutting discs.   
   >   
   >   
   > Like a lot of Youtube videos titled something like "DIY - make this   
   > useful widget in 15 minutes"   
   >   
   > They often start off with manufacturing something with simple hand tools   
   > but then quickly progress to machines or tools that a large engineering   
   > company would be proud to own.   
   >   
   > It appears that in the USA anyone that does DIY has a fully equipped   
   > workshop in a workspace the size of a large barn.   
      
   I don't have a lot of space, but I do have a lathe, milling machine,   
   pillar drill, welders and a whole lot of other stuff as it happens.   
      
   The copper probes that he made for the spot welder, could have been made   
   with hand tools, they would just not be as neat and it would have taken   
   longer.   
      
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