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General Category => GENERAL DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE OFF TOPIC => Topic started by: goodfellow on December 15, 2019, 06:22:58 PM

Title: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: goodfellow on December 15, 2019, 06:22:58 PM: Pakistanis are some of the most skilled craftsman in the world. They are excellent machinists, metalworkers, and gunsmiths who often work with very basic tools to accomplish complex tasks. This YouTube channel highlights the truck repair trade and it is fascinating. Many of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers used similar techniques to accomplish tasks that were necessary in the fields and Great Plains where parts were scarce and expensive.

This guy rebuilds truck batteries -- in the US the EPA and OSHA would put these guys in jail, but in Pakistan this is everyday business.

.... and radiator core repair work
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: oldnslo on December 15, 2019, 07:08:16 PM: Sadly, despite the upbeat music, the battery rebuilder will probably have another 5 years of life, but will shorten the life of his family too as he drags home lead to the house, food, laundry.

(shaking my head)
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: slip knot on December 15, 2019, 08:23:22 PM: There was an Asian heavy truck guy on facebook. mesmerizing, Just watching work my back would get achy.
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: jabberwoki on December 15, 2019, 09:17:04 PM: OOOF can you imagine what his blood test would come back like.

When I was in Cuba I saw a guy casting forks in a market with scrap.
Gotta do what ya gotta do I suppose.
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: bonneyman on December 15, 2019, 09:41:44 PM: Well, I applaud the ingenuity and hard work but dang that is toxic work. :-\
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: highland512 on December 16, 2019, 07:31:43 AM: Who needs a bench vice when you have a perfectly useful left foot. :))
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: Rusty on December 16, 2019, 12:03:32 PM
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: goodfellow on December 16, 2019, 12:40:49 PM: That AK disguised as an M4 is a brilliant piece of craftsmanship. Chambers 5.56x45, and uses an ultra-reliable piston instead of direct impingement; what's not to like. SIG probably got the idea for their piston AR design from these guys. --LOL
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: Rusty on December 17, 2019, 08:01:58 AM: Think of it, an M4 that could survive the sands and dirt in the hands of third world peasants.
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: bonneyman on December 17, 2019, 09:24:38 AM: Amazing what determined souls can do with hand tools. :-\
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: Rusty on December 17, 2019, 12:41:32 PM: I saw a few 1911 and Browning clones that were hand crafted in Vietnam. They made most of the factory production of the time look really bad.
Title: Re: Pakistani truck repair trade -- fascinating!
Post by: nonhog on December 24, 2019, 06:06:36 PM: Love the ingenuity! Since becoming ill with Psoriatic Arthritis a couple years ago I've been extra careful around chemicals.
Just the other day I got yet another diagnosis. Parkinson's WTF? Nothing I can do but soldier on. I ask the Doc what should I not do? Hoping he doesn't say "stop drinking beer" I get a pass on that but he did say don't weld. Now I don't weld much but I do enjoy laying down some bird crap now and again. He says its the Manganese it produces that gets in your lungs. Interesting! I see a mask in my future for welding, I don't need to make matters worse. Ugh. Be careful!