Paul Revere
sheltech@webtv.net

>>You, as a master metalsmith would have had an entire "back room" filled with >apprentices...
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>>Now, let's transport ourselves back to the present day:
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>>Lee

kiln, for example, sucks about 5 kW. So that's equivalent to five big burly six-foot hamsters running in a very big wheel, sweating up a storm, so that she can do some enameling. We don't often stop to think of it in those terms anymore, but effectively we do still have that back room full of apprentices; except we don't have to feed them, and they're indentured for life, muahahahaha! :-)

Hmm..  I always wanted a herd of six -foot hamsters , but had to settle for apprentices because it was poltically correct. Bugger me !!!.
PR