basic skills

[tielan]

Things I want to start learning:

- mechanical stuff: how to fix a car (more than just changing oil), gears, how to make things work

- woodworking: drill bits and saw bits, and putting things together, fixing things

- electrical work: basic stuff, how to fix things like non-electronic motors

I'm trying to find a community college, but most of their classes are 'lifestyle' and the career stuff appears to be more vocation based than practical based.

There's a woodworking shed right down the road, though, and they're open on Tuesdays and Fridays, so I might mosey on down there this week.

Comments

[karmageddon]

YouTube videos? My husband fixes everything after watching a youtube video. When I was a kid my dad had the Time Life Books about repair. He fixed plumbing/electrical/all of it with the books next to him. Step by step diagrams.

[tielan]

Oh, that could work. Does he have any recs for good self-help? It might very well have to be 'electrical stuff for idiots'...

[karmageddon]

I love the For Dummies series. I've used them for lots of stuff. My husband says he doesn't have a particular YouTube series or anything he uses, he just types a description of the problem into the search bar.