heheh...6k there, 4k to go over here

He joined DiY 3 months before me. ~2.5k to go for me.

@Mazura yeah -- I'm kind of a specialist, so it's not quite as easy picking up rep as some folks who are just all over the site

@TomášZato You get it working?

@Shalvenay Heh. I am indeed all over the place. According to SE I'm a plumber.

That's not even half of what I do with my time.

@Mazura yeah -- I deal mostly with electrical because that's what I know -- I can do a bit of HVAC controls type stuff too -- but if I was to take up a trade, it'd have to be electrical

If I actually "took up a trade" I'd have to start at the bottom. I believe the term is scab ;)

@Mazura well, actually, I could get training in the electrician side of things (albeit on locomotives instead of in buildings) through my employer if I wanted to go that way

Heh. Do you still have all your fingers?

@Mazura yes

You ain't no railroad man then ;)

@Mazura haha :P we generally prefer to do things in a way that keeps ourselves intact where I work

My dad used to rent space for his foundry in a place that made 'scale' locomotives for rich people.

The owner ran a plating shop (which is what really paid the bills)

@Mazura nods

It's pretty neat to be surrounded by people that can build anything. I grew up like Tomas Edison ;)

How many zeros in your check book? ;p

@Mazura yeah, I grew up with my dad working on consumer electronics as a repair tech :o so electricity and electronics became my thing very quickly

For a while my family were the in-house technicians for an R&D company. Whatever they didn't know how to build, we did, and vice versa.

@Mazura xD. yeah, that had to be nice

3 C&C machines (the big one has a 8'x4' bed), 3 Bridgeports, 2 lathes, numerous polyjets... man they had everything.

Back when polyjets were 100k...

@Mazura Thanks for asking :) Yeah, I followed the instructions, with a little guesswork, and it worked. But it was just temporary fix - automatic draining of the water. I'm not sure what safety implications this has