This isn't a posting about a problem. It's a posting about how I think.
I had a problem with one of my machines. I couldn't figure out what to do
about it. After a couple of days worrying away at it I got the idea to
write it up like a posting to this NG and then put it down and read it
fresh the next morning. Sure enough, when I read it like the problem came
from someone else, laid out clearly just the way I like it, the solution
immediately came to me!

I think better when faced with a problem which is written out logically.
This is what happens when you take a guy whose background is mathematics
and electrical engineering, with a lifetime of education, and put him in
a machine shop. I bet if I'd started out as a machinist's apprentice when
I was 18, at my now-ripe-old-age of 51, I'd think better when presented
with a problem on the fly, on my feet, in the shop.

Go figger.

Grant Erwin