Informal Poll: Mechanically Inclined or Not?

[Chew]

I am not. If I have step by step instructions with lots of pics...I can usually do something that i consider mechanical. If I have a youtube vid (thanks youtube for the brake job on my jeep), then I'm usually alright.

But I am not one of those guys that can just climb under the hood or grab the band saw or work the drill press thingy or work the tap and die or drill out a broken bolt from an exhaust manifold (sorry, son) or get my wooden gates to quit sagging.

I have all the respect in the world for you guys that can tackle any project with confidence and usually end up on the winning side.

So who considers themselves mechanical vs. non-mechanical?

[tallnhairy]

Mechanical. Started wrenching for a living in '85, got my ASE Master Tech certificate in '88 and have found very few things in my 49 years that I can't fix. Except myself, and I'm pretty jacked up...

[westtexducks]

I would like to say I am mechanically inclined compared to a lot of people, but I can not compare to my dad he is the definition of mechanically inclined lol.

[Ol Thumper]

Mechanical

[Chew]

Mechanical

People with avatars like yours are not allowed to respond. I don't like you.

[Cooter]

Not. I am like you Chew, with clear instructions and a few re-trys, I can usually get close to getting it right. My dad and brother on the other hand can look at something, eyeball it, and get it fixed. When something breaks, I spend alot of time on the phone with the Ol' Man.

[RobinBradbery]

I think so. I even have the A&P certificate to prove it. (Airframe and Powerplant)

[BigTex.308]

I would say i am. Always had jobs where I worked with my hands and I've picked up alot. I like knowing how things work too. I'm the guy that throws the directions away and figures it out myself. Sometimes takes longer but I like figuring stuff out.




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[Shane]

My dad's family farmed. My mom's father built hot rods and everything else that he could imagine. No matter where I was when I was a kid, I had somebody teaching me how to build something out of nothing - usually using some old broken down piece of junk and whatever else was laying around that could be nailed or welded together. I had no choice but to be mechanically inclined.

We took some kind of aptitude test in high school, and after that the Navy recruiters campaigned very hard, offering a huge college scholarship to get me to join and work on a nuclear sub. Being locked up in a tube under water for weeks on end didn't sound like fun at all to a farm boy from the wide open and dry Great Plains. If they would have had some other idea to talk to me about I might have been interested, but the Trident sub didn't ring my bell.

[Smart]

Mechanical....I turn a wrench on all our vehicles...I fix all mower, weedeater, chainsaw small engine issues, and repair our appliances if they can be done economically without replacing. Did the same when I had an outboard. I also build decks, installed my irrigation system and am about to replace a fence. Just got a once over lesson by a buddy to replace future capacitors, contacts switches, fan motors and relays on my AC unit.

Now I just need to learn to weld...

[KHoes203]

Mechanical by far.

[Chew]

Ok. Y'all aren't making me feel any better. Going to bed.

[Froggy]

If I can't fix it, it's broke. I grew up working on cars from the 50 and 60's.

Some folks say they don't make em like they used too. Thank goodness because them old cars broke down constantly.

[westtexducks]

If I can't fix it, it's broke. I grew up working on cars from the 50 and 60's.

Some folks say they don't make em like they used too. Thank goodness because them old cars broke down constantly.

Well at least back then you could fix them for a couple hundred bucks yourself instead of a few thousand by somebody else.

[Mister Bubba's bulletman]

Mechanical. Lots of engineer types in the extended family. I consider myself an OK shade tree mechanic.