[ARCHIVED THREAD] - MECHANICS assemble (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 4/7/2013 12:16:53 PM EDT
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Are you a weekend tinkerer? A full time auto tech? Heavy duty diesel or equipment mechanic?
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Weekend warrior. No mechanical training. When I needed to buy a pickup I found a 2001 F250 with a 7.3 that was at the edge of my budget. I figured that I could offset the cost of ownership by learning to do my own work on it. Two weeks ago I replaced my ball joints. I like doing the work and completing a project is super satisfying. Wish I'd started working on my vehicles when I first started driving. |
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ASE certified out of high school:
Brakes Engine tune up Engine overhaul Electrical Forgive me if the classifications aren't worded exactly correct. No longer certified. I now work on bigger things mechanical up to, and sometimes including, a nuclear reactor. I do most of my own auto work now. |
| Retired automotive/ heavy truck/ bus/ heavy equipment/ race car (drag( gas, supercharged gas , gas dragster, alky funny car), (modified circle track, supermodified, ARCA)/ motorcycle/ hydroplane (1 season) / street machines. Now I just build the occasional race and street motor and play with my pickup truck |
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Poll fail. I am a mechanic by trade, but I don't work on vehicles or such. I work on various production equipment. yeah....we build and maintain the equipment that builds what you tinker on  
Forgot to mention job. Industrial Mech 
Screw you. I worked for many years on large format printing presses, guillotine cutters, and such. Factory trained in the US, Canada and Germany. Hydraulics, pneumatics, various mechanical drives, computer control systems, etc. For the last five years I've been working on lasers, NdYAGs and CO2s. I wanted a laser ever since I saw Goldfinger as a child. Now I have 14 of them. 
I used to do a lot of design and fabrication work as well. Don't get to do it much anymore, probably the favorite part of my job. TIG, MIG, arc, oxy/ace, and can find my way around in a machine shop. |
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I did this ground up/ every nut and bolt.. I did all (engine chassis body work paint(1st time complete) etc) except the front bucket seat covers .. lost patience there >>> Took 6years http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/emrock65/IMG_2734.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/emrock65/IMG_2746.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/emrock65/IMG_2913.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/emrock65/IMG_4342.jpg http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb120/emrock65/IMG_5289.jpg Nice goat, intake looks like a tri-power why did you forget that pic
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Industrial maintenance mechanic, fabricator, millwright, machinist, electrician, etc...Maintenance Foreman in a food processing plant.
Time goes by very quickly to say the least being understaffed and over tasked. I have also been a heavy truck mechanic, diesel tow truck operator, repair welder, etc... All good skills to have but the work can be pretty demanding, hard, dirty. I'm getting to old for this stuff... Still kinda fun though =) ILB |
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I call myself an auto mechanic, but in reality I'll work on anything a customer puts in front of me, be it small engine stuff, watercraft, MCs, ATVs, golf carts, medium or heavy trucks, bicycles ; almost literally anything.
NASCAR Tech. graduate(Mooresville NC) VW Academy graduate(Allentown PA) VW certified tech 2004-2008 I've never bothered with ASE certs, but since I'm now lead tech/shop foreman at a AAA auto repair facility, I'll probably be adding ASE master/L1 in the next few months. |