you are too young to remember how things were on the farm.
sometimes the "good old days" had their draw backs,
but we survived just fine.
nice to do things by the book, but also nice to "do" when you didn't have the book, and funny thing, it worked just fine.
We didn't mind making what we didn't have or was not available.
It was a long and costly wait to get parts by postal mail or from a
Sears/Wards /Western auto catalog.
today we have Computer/Telephone/instant communication.
times have changed, some for the better some not.
but rewarding as hell making something from nothing.
anybody can change parts, a machinist/mechanic can make that which he dont have.
just a personal thing, not up for debate.
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