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Midway through my senior year of high school I was accepted into several college EE programs and realized I wouldn't need the last semester of French III - which I hated!.  For the remainder of my senior year I took metal shop and learned about working with metal and running a lathe. drill press, and other tools.  I had a ball.   Thirty years later I purchased a 9" South Bend lathe similar to the ones we had in the high school shop.  The South Bend is gone now and has been replaced by a benchtop lathe from MicroMark that I use for small train related projects like turning headlight reflectors and truck bolster bushings.  Those metal shop lessons come in handy at times,  but most importantly they served to build confidence for a range of do it yourself projects one encounters in life where time is more available than money.   I say go for it.

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