There is hope

Charlie from wmass

My second son found this book and is reading it.

Fred

A steam Pro in the making!

icesailor

Is he soldering and threading pipe yet?

Does he ride in the truck with dads? Does he interact with his potential customers yet?

An inquisitive mind is a valuable thing to waste. Don't waste that one.

He's a keeper.

EBEBRATT-Ed

Hurry, before he changes his mind!!

Jamie Hall

Bring him along next time!

Paul48

That's very cool........ Find small things he can learn in a book, then take him to a job, and have him work with you to apply it. Nurture that interest, and after a while, all those little pieces fit in the big puzzle.

Charlie from wmass

He has come with me for years. He wants to be a scientist. But I will make sure that both of my sons at least know an one pipe counterflow to a two pipe vacuum system And why we use iron.

Fred

Let them get that education if they can. As long as they keep the mindset that it is always good to have a skill to fall back on if ever they need to.

BobC

I worked for 30+ years as a technician and then an engineer (25 years with one company) designing power supplies for military and commercial use. By 2000 that whole field was going over to China and I still had to make a living.

Because I worked for a small manufacturing company I got a chance to do everything that had to be done to get product out the door - we all knew we had to ship if we wanted to get paid next week. Before sitting at a desk I worked in the machine shop, the PWB fab area, plant maintenance, the prototype area, and then as liaison between engineering and manufacturing. All that experience let me finish my working life repairing mail sorting machines for the post office and that let me sock away enough to retire at 62 because of various physical issues.

A lot of white collar jobs have gone by the boards in the last 7 or 8 years but they can't export machine repair or boiler installation and that is why it's good to have a trade to fall back on.

You never know what you'll have to do when times change, you better have a plan B to fall back on.

Bob

The Steam Whisperer (Formerly Boilerpro)

Encourage him to look deeper. The minds that engineered these systems, especially the vapor/ vacuum systems prior to WWII were probably some of the best in history. I have met very few today that can grasp, let alone work and massage fundamental scientific principals as well as these that went before. They so deeply understood the principals that they could figure out how to make physics work in wonderful ways to serve humankind in daily while using some of the simplest materials available.....water and heat. If he can grow to appreciate and hopefully follow the same path, he will truly bring much good to the world.