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don't forget to read
Theres been a lot of good advice given here in this great thread. A couple more things:
There are often good books or detailed magazines that focus on the topics that you are interested in. For example, when I was growing up, I was interested in cars and engines, so I spent a lot of time reading magazines like Hot Rod, Popular Hot Rodding, etc. They often have detailed articles - with lots of pictures - that explain engine rebuild projects. Usually they have more understandable detail than what you might find on the web. And since the magazines are usually entertaining, they do not make you feel like you are studying.
Shop manuals for the various devices that you are taking apart - and putting back together of course - are usually a good source of info that give insight into how or why something works.
I'll bet many of the engineers in FIRST took their bikes apart hundreds of times - this is probably the first real unsupervised exposure to tools/mechanics that a lot of kids have (I mean, wheres your dad/mom/brother/sister when your chain falls off?).
Ken
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