Originally Posted by relight9
those guys can fix virtually anything, and if it can't be fixed, they will and do, build a new part from raw materials.
That's very much what Messrs A V Roe and Co, then HSA, expected of airframe fitters in the '50s and 60's. When my dad was moved to instructing in the Apprentice Training School (Woodford) in '68, that's what they were still teaching.