Dial Indicator Repair With a Sonic Cleaner

[C-Bag]

PJ's I get buzz from talking from talking to guys like this too. Problem is they don't really want to go on because like with this guy all he had was daughters and they and his wife had no interest or comprehension of what he does/did. And being retired he spends a lot of time in his garage building wooden models of old ships(from scratch!) and RC planes and electronics repair projects. I don't want annoy but I enjoy gently prodding these different things out of his past. I wouldn't be surprised if most of his family don't know this stuff.

He was young when WWll started and his family fled Prussia then came back after the war. He went to work building commercial aircraft and then instruments. When he came to the US to work for some big instrument maker and thought his limited English would be a problem but was astonished to find the whole shop full of ex-pat Poles all speaking German all day! He worked for other big co's and then landed with PG&E.

So yeah, because of this thread(thanks Brian) I may get some first hand info how an old world tech would do this. And a good excuse to learn some more first hand history. As the Greatest Generation passes they take a huge chunk with them.