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So sketchy to watch people grab the work while the lathe is turning
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Probably something extreme, like cracking the frame on rough roads with a huge load on the front of the bike. People in the third world are incredibly adaptable ... he probably already tried slowing down and avoiding the bumps, but for some reason he ended up rebuilding the forks.
Probably not something like safety, preventative maintenance or fear of exploding the front wheel, again, safety.
Yes, a lot of it is scary. I've watched blokes (and blokettes) doing things in places I been, that have appalled me and impressed me. Some times, both.
I make 'things' myself, and, despite the various 'E Tech' I've in my computers, and access to pretty trick machines, away from my workshop, I'm mainly an analogue bloke. The other night, I clamped my drawing board to my light welding bench, put down some grid paper, and did the drawing and drill / cut points of a new 'thing'. I then put the grid paper over some thin plate, transferred the lines and points, to make a hard copy template. Then, put those reference marks to 9.5mm thick 6061. which, I then welded 2 together, to then drill all the holes simultaneously, as well as tapping them. Popped them apart, finish shape each plate, and, 'Bears A Boofhead', I've got a pair of 6 way adjustable DH frame drop outs to try out on a new frame. All, very primitive ( to what are, usually, p**cks who can't make a damned thing), but, it's how I like to do things, most of the time.
Some of the finest artisans / engineers I've ever come across, have been in backwater places.
By the same token, some of the most fearful repairs and builds I've seen, have been in those sort of places.
But, also, in some of the most high tech, glorious facilities I've been in, or, unfortunately bought from, I've encountered just as, or even more fearful, crap products and workmanship - hidden behind big, fancy names and reputations.
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