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Default OT - In Age of High-Tech, Are Americans Losing Touch with DIY Skills?

On Sep 14, 12:56 pm, Jim Stewart wrote:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:
In an accompanying aritcle to the PM's list of 25 skills every man
should know!
a discussion of whether Americans are losing their DIY skills.


Are they or are the skills needed just changing?


Your thoughts?


Which generation are you talking about?

I have far more equipment and skills than
my dad did, and he was no slouch at DIY.

I put together a little toolkit for my
daughter to take with her to college. I
asked her if she ever used it last time
she was home. She said "all the time".

Her current boyfriend is very good as well.
I handed him a new throttle position
sensor for her car and watched him install
it like a pro. Not a big job unless you
do something silly like drop the screws,
which he didn't.


How did you know that the TPS was the problem?

TMT