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    SEC Member Guy Mayers's Avatar
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    I'm an accountant......

    Just like tinkering with motors!

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Intensive Care doctor - I have several of these sort of things to look after:
    ETA: this is not one of my patients but a picture that has already been published in the national media with the patient's identity, which I have removed.
    I think there has been a drift in the club over the last decade towards more professional engineering backgrounds rather than the amateur tinkerer that used to be the case. Perhaps this is the case over the "kit car" scene generally?
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    I take these apart..........then spend a long putting them back together again
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Quote Originally Posted by tomsredstratos View Post
    I take these apart..........then spend a long putting them back together again
    Now that's my sort of job !....

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisCar6 View Post
    Intensive Care doctor - I have several of these sort of things to look after
    That's a huge responsibility. You have my deepest respect and admiration.

    Quote Originally Posted by ChrisCar6 View Post
    I think there has been a drift in the club over the last decade towards more professional engineering backgrounds rather than the amateur tinkerer that used to be the case. Perhaps this is the case over the "kit car" scene generally?
    No idea Chris - I certainly don't have an engineering background but a healthy dollop of common sense, being adept with my hands and an willingness to learn has got me from a nobody volunteer to part of a team helping rebuild and maintain these old timers (a good number are now over 100 years old). I've taken a similar approach to building the car; listening to advice offered, reading up on the basic fundamentals and making my own decisions (some good, some less so) and have nearly got there. If anything I suspect that there are less engineering based people around now as the industries which required them are (or have) dwindled. This doesn't really imply that most people taking up building a kit car haven't got those skills already available to them.

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Retired senior police officer, I used to do things like this



    and now emergency planner, I plan for things like this

    originally served my time with United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (Sellafield), ended up in the drawing office, before embarking on my police career
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    As many of you Know I am Chief Engineer Sailing on Chemical Tankers

    This is my Current Ship In the Panama Canal....

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Principal Mechanical Engineer... we make industrial Dampers which control gas flow through duct systems..... sometimes with So2/So3 or at temperatures up to 1100degC from big stuff to small stuff.....
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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Has Neil subcontracted his new throttle bodies to you Phil?

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Quote Originally Posted by guy mayers View Post
    has neil subcontracted his new throttle bodies to you phil?
    they don't flow enough air for neil !!... Lol

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