Obsolete skills

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Prompted by a post in the trivial thread, I have the following skills, among others :

Drafting (pen & ink on film)
Stick arc welding
Hand splicing wire rope

All of these took time and effort to learn, earned me money at the time, and are now totally obsolete.

What collection of useless skills do we have on PH?

What should we do with that power?

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DervVW said:

map reading is fast becoming a lost art... bad thing?

I didn't mention that one, since I map-read competetively
Although in Historic rallying, so probably counts as obsolete.



I also have a boat, and if you can't read a map, you shouldn't be out on the water, IMO.

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cookmysock said:

OP - rather surprised that you think stick welding is becoming obsolete. Working in the construction industry, mostly the oil and gas side of things, stick welding is essential. As long as we keep using metal products, we will be welding them together. Sure, new technologies have seen many fantastic automated processes, but the stick is still needed for some of the finer and more difficult welds as well as the fit up work before the automatics come into play.

Another lost skill - mammoth hunting, skinning, then eating it

Ok, obsolete may have been an exaggeration, but I haven't seen anything but mig, and now tig, for a long time in light industrial use.

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bomb said:

If you have a boat, and you refer to the 'Chart' as a Map, you shouldn't be out on the water, IMO.

Tru dat.

Why do my water maps have all those tiddy little numbers on them?