Buil Your own Hip Roof Metal Toolbox...Free Plans.

Industrial Arts ^

[virgil283]

Directions for the construction of a small metal tool box. Download PDF files free....(1.) Plans (2.)Instructions....Other free plans available too..

[virgil283]

This calls for a metal brake and spot welder, but I've experimented with pieces of angle iron and 'Good' vice grips to make some simple bends like these. Your could do this in aluminun with pop rivits if you wanted to start with something easier......Try it...

[Kenny Bunk]

8th grade (mandatory)7th-8th grade shop project. 1950's Maine Grammar (1-8) schools.

Mechanical drawing of said project(s) required.

[goodtomato]

Yep, still have mine.That was a great lesson plan.Skills learned in 8th grade and still applying them today!

[21twelve]

“Skills learned in 8th grade and still applying them today!”

Like always make sure you have plenty of bandaids around!

[goodtomato]

In High School we made a under the tabel vice. We cast the stock holding portion from aluminum and had to turn round stock into threads. I also made knock off “Hurst” T shifter knobs. I most have made 30 of them and sold them to classmates. I really enjoyed the foundry! I never took wood shop because the teachers were d—ks. Go figure I'm a carpenter today!

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Same here. Woodworking in 7th grade (1963); metal working in 8th grade; full year of mechanical drawing in 9th grade. Still use all those skills every day.

I tried hard to get my son interested, but he only wanted to play sports. “But son, someday you’ll own a home and need to repair things around the house.”

“No Dad, I’ll hire somebody to do it.” We built a number of things together, but he didn’t build a passion like I had for working with your own hands and building things. Very sad.

[Born to Conserve]

The manual arts are for slobbering idiots who can’t add two and two.

(kidding)

[goodtomato]

I'm a tradesman and it amazes me that people have no clue. If I use something, especially every day, I'm going to do my best to figure it out. I can't tell you how many times I have had to explain to a forty something how a damn toilet works!

[Last Dakotan]

“No Dad, I’ll hire somebody to do it.”

I can't do half the things my father can.

[Bellflower]

I sure wish females would have been encouraged to go to those classes. Were they mandatory for males? I would love to know half that stuff today. If I had a daughter I would encourage her to take these kinds of classes. In the very least she could be a good helper for her husband as he tackled projects around the house. I also like to know how things work.

[virgil283]

'I sure wish females would have been encouraged to go to those classes. Were they mandatory for males? No not mandatory at my school. We had DE/DO which was for non-college track high school but you could opt in for these classes.... I agree girls could get a lot out of these type of classes, it gives you a sense of how things work or confidence to learn that you can apply other places....