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Ring ridge reamers and a question about modern society

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Posted by Ultradog MN on July 08, 2011 at 16:44:18 from (70.57.149.192):

I went to Oreilly's today. Had heard they rent/loan tools there and I don't own a ridge reamer. They do loan tools. Pay $53 on your credit card and get the reamer for 48 hours. When you return it you get a full refund.
Pretty good deal.
I expected the tool to be of dubious quality - beat up and used hard, worn out. But when he handed it to me it was brand new in the box. So I asked him if most people just buy one? He looked it up on his computer and said no. This is the first time in over a year that one had gone out of that store.
Well now that just kind of struck me as odd.
Granted this is the city and all (Minneapolis) so probably not a lot of tractors around. But aren't there fellows fixing the engines on their boats or hot rods any more? Nobody fixing their snowmobiles or log splitters? No one fixing an old pickup to get a few more years out of it?
Is no one is doing a simple inframe to a 56 Ford or Chevy? - rings, rod bearings and valves?
Is every one but me sending their engine off the to the professionals for a complete rebuild?
Am I that out of touch to do an old fashioned ring job??
Or is there something else going on?
Is it that people just don't have these simple skills anymore?
At least not the hobbyists?
Or people are just more interested in watching it done on Modern Marvels and not fixing stuff themselves any more?
Is it the schools aren't teaching this stuff to boys these days? Heck I did this on a tractor in Ag class in High School. It isn't anyhing special.
But the tool did get me wondering today.
First use or sale of a simple ridge reamer from a very buisy store in over a year.
Just wondering what others have to say about it here I guess.
Thanks for letting me rant.

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