[EricH]

Originally Posted by Sunshine

I have more concern about your comments than any other posted here. Shop class as you call it, is for engineers too. You can not design it if you do not know how it is built. You are missing one of the big reasons we are here.

There's a reason I took a basic machining class my senior year of high school. There's a reason that my college has a machine shop really close to the main engineering competition design/fabrication areas.

It's so that the guys who have to build and maintain the stuff you just built aren't consigning you to the devil every time they have to get to that one bolt that has to be removed before any other maintenance is performed, but is in a place that needs a 5-foot arm to reach.