CAUTION
rant in progress....
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Knowledge is life (my old High School motto)..
Soo much knowledge and skill is lost with each generation. The main culprit today is the throw away society we now live in.
100 years ago, if something broke you HAD to fix it yourself or go without.
50 years ago (before my time, just) if something broke, first you would try to figure out a way to fix it or get it repaired, if that wasn't possible, you would salvage as much as possible from the item and then see if you can use them for some other project.
Now you just throw it away, dive onto Ebay and buy another one, but cheaper.
Knowledge isn't skill, but repeated application and refinement of that knowledge is.
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Cheers..