Posted by Daryl Hickman on June 08, 2000 at 22:06:56:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Repair Training posted by anon. on June 08, 2000 at 00:34:49:
While I believe that some experience on machines (drill press, lathe, etc.) is useful, there are many quality repair shops that don't function without them. Obviously, it is possible to do many repairs without a lathe. If you want to make a valve cap or replace a broken clarinet tenon - a lathe is necessary. However, lathes can be overused. Some repair insist on chucking a clarinet in a lathe just to sand a new tenon cork. In the time that it takes to carefully place the instrument in the lathe, I have the tenon perfectly sanded with drywall screen and a bench peg. Yeah, it's low-tech, but it works just fine. There are hundreds of jobs for qualified repair technicians. Students completing our program average $10-20 and hour. Not bad for eleven months of training. DLH