15 BANNED Shop Class Machines Every Boy Used That Modern Schools Are Terrified Of

Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/@TheLostHandyman?sub_confirmation=1 👉 Start Saving Money By Fixing Everything Yourself Ebook: https://forgottenhandymansecrets.netlify.app/ In 1958, a shop teacher in Gary, Indiana found a stripped gear in his school's metal lathe, clamped a blank in the milling machine, and cut a new one himself while twenty eighth-grade boys watched. That lathe ran 31 more years. From the 1920s into the 1980s there was a man like him in nearly every American school, standing in a room full of machines that could take a finger in half a second — and he handed them to 13-year-olds. Nobody banned those machines. They left one budget at a time. The one sentence he said before every boy's first cut is number one. Sources: https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2001/CPSC-Emerson-Tool-Co-Announce-Recall-of-Craftsman-Radial-Arm-Saws-Sold-by-Sears-Roebuck-and-Co https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/h149.asp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SawStop