wrote:
A flaw in the construction of my home revealed itself this past weekend
...
sanitary flange began to rust. Fifty-four years later it finally
fractured, bucking me off in the process.

designs with time between failures of fifty four years are considered
flaws?

nice story though

Like the fellow said, nowadays nobody welds.

just started

Nor do they hang doors,

done that

fix dryers

only twice

or do any number of other useful things

like????

including building airplanes from scratch.

well, now you are going a bit too far veedub admittedly, I finally
got off my arse and bought a house with enought room on the property to
build a large workshop. while building an airplane isnt on my priority
list right now, it is on my list of "i'll do it before i die"

we had some conversations a bit ago, also along some of the lines your
prose spoke of here.
I'll admit thatthe past 6 months for me have put quite a few projects
on the back burner, but they have not been totaly cancelled.

(too verybody else) I am one of the nutjobs that wants to build his own
working rocket ship, so just smile nicely and quietly stick me in your
kill file......

BTW know anything about replacing steel roofs of 1940s vintage?