>Oh, and, I can't actually find that comment, Gryph. There's nearly 10k
>of them, so...

Hm. You'd think YT would keep mine near the top, I mean, I am the main character.

Anyway, what I said was,

Years ago, I took an introductory machine tool class as a mechanical engineering tech major at a flagship state university. We broke up into teams and built little single-cylinder pneumatic reciprocating engines from drawings provided as part of the course materials. We weren't in training to be machinists; the purpose of the course was to give us a practical understanding of what the machinists who would have to build the stuff we eventually engineered would be up against. Most of us had never seen a machine tool in person before the start of the course.

We did way better work than that.

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