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   jfw1960 | Jun 30, 2008 04:59am | #1

   Thanks for sharing that, it was very interesting.   Ditto on the toothbrush technique for joints---looks like it may be well worth the try.

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   saschafer | Jun 30, 2008 05:19am | #2

   I wonder if he's using Waxilit to avoid glue stains? The normal procedure with Waxilit is to scrub the treated area after glue-up with a methanol-soaked toothbrush to remove the residue.

   -Steve

    

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   webby | Jun 30, 2008 11:56pm | #5

   Interesting, I don't know. I assumed he was just using water. Often I feel like I am just wiping the glue into the grain with a sponge instead of removing it.Webby 

    

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   chscholz | Jun 30, 2008 10:13pm | #3

   How interesting, thank you for posting!

   Poked around a bit at the World Skills website.

   Competitions include Cabinet Making, Joinery, Carpentry, Automation, Car Repair, Manufacturing, CNC Milling, Welding, Web Design and many others.

   It appears as if we don't do quite as well as I hoped for: #31 (of 46) by points and #27 (of 38) by number of medals (Results).

   Even Iran (IR) beat us by a slim margin. Top three countries are (by points:) Korea, Brazil and Switzerland; (by number of medals:) Korea, Japan and Singapore. Could it be that this competition uses metric units instead of imperial units?

   ---

   Chris Scholz

   Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

   Galoot-Tools

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   webby | Jun 30, 2008 11:54pm | #4

   You are welcome.

   Watching the video and looking at his plan it appears to be in metric units.

   It is a shame we don't rank higher, but what is our rational  in this country,fast and cheap, why should we value craftsmanship, when we can buy it premade and imported for competitive pricing.

   Webby 

    

   Edited 6/30/2008 4:55 pm ET by webby

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   [email protected] | Jul 01, 2008 06:33pm | #6

   I checked out the website, and the full results.  It appears that the U.S. only had three entrants. 

   I think maybe more needs to be done to promote the competition to students in the United States, mentor them so they are ready, and fund them so they can compete. 

   When I was in college, the Student Chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers were just starting to build concrete canoes.  And, the first year there less than ten teams, who built a canoe and raced it. 

   That was thirty odd years ago.  In 1988 the ASCE parent organization, and Master Builders, (a concrete admixture supply company), began sponsoring regional and national competitions.  It is now a major project for nearly all of the Civil Engineering Colleges in the US, and a few other nations.  Nevada, Reno was this years champion, with a very sleek well designed boat.  I remember one of their early boats from around 1990.  It looked like a clawfoot bath tub with the feet removed, and it weighed more than the tub would have. 

   The difference, is the level of support/involvement of the faculty, and resulting motivation of the students. 

   The idea has been picked up by other professional engineering organizations and corporate sponsors, and there are now competitions in steel bridge design, human powered vehicles, solar powered vehicles, etc. 

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   BossCrunk | Jul 01, 2008 06:51pm | #7

   It's a real shame, and I mean it, that in an endeavor generally requiring a whole lot of skill, deftness, and nuance (furnituremaking) that it has become a 'best practice' to slather panel glue ups with enough material to float the Nimitz.

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   webby | Jul 01, 2008 11:58pm | #8

   Are you infering from my remark, that I use too much glue? :^)Webby 

    

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   Metod | Jul 02, 2008 03:17pm | #9

   Boss,
   Excellent! You noticed the 'toothbrush detail', but show no grasp of that particular process as a whole. Attention span of a gnat?
   Metod