There is ALWAYS a price

Theres no such thing as a free lunch.

TANSTAAFL for all the Heinlein peeps out there

In this instance, I’m seeing a tool I need to acomplish a certain task. There may be such a tool for purchase, but I wouldn’t know what to call it in a search string. But I can see it in my mind.

The price in this case, is I can see all of the different steps I would need to go through to produce this tool, including making the die to form the working edge, heat treatment of the die to minimize wear, what I would do to mount and power the die,,,, Many a thanks to Clickspring for details of primitive methods. (Follow the following link and get sucked into a wormhole of information,,

Thats the price I pay for having educated myself on machining, metal casting, welding and several other disciplines of the metal working world. Having ‘partied’◇ with engineers and high end techs over the years, and picking up their ways of thinking,,,, yeah, 9 outta 10 the first question was “well what do we need to make to make this work?”. And its why in certian circles, I have been the MacGuyver. Because I’m not stopped by ‘we don’t have that tool ‘,,, I will flipping make it or come up with something to do the deed needed.

It can be annoying to. Where others just toss the hands and move on, I DWELL. One saying I have said many many a time; “There are NO problems, only UNSEEN solutions.” It doesn’t make me a popular person (like I could give a shit!) in some places. And I’ve been labeled ‘Arrogant’ a time or two because of that “git-r-done” attitude. (Seriously? I’m an introvert!! Arrogance is way over there in the Extrovert Aisle dude!!)

Thats the price of knowledge in this world: it can be lonely when you’re surrounded by the wilfully ignorant.

◇ partied is a rather ill fitting word, though they all felt like they were letting their hair down (if any had had hair, lol) and in many cases, “partied’ woulda looked a whole lot like ‘work’ to the uninitiated. Do you know how to tell if an engineer is partying? Work will have coffee cups, parties will have bottles.