I mentioned this thread to my dad and he got a chuckle out of it. He's retired from a Nat'l Lab where he was the go-between that took what the physicists where dreaming up and translated it for the technicians so they could build the prototype or he would engineer the 'field' version. In other words, he's a southern engineer with a flair for cooking up cool toys.
Now for fun he's the Fri/Sat/Sun employee at our local hardware store & it's like putting a kid in a candy store. His take on all plumbing jobs (for non-plumbers) is that it's never a 1 trip to the store kind of task.
I think it would be handy to know a bit about each trade so you don't get yourself into a real fix!
