Originally Posted by
STF
Speaking of apprentices
I was an apprentice mechanic when I left school.
I am pretty comfortable under the hood but the skill that i learned first was how to make a decent cuppa.
There wasn't cell phones back then and i was too oily to touch one anyway.
Most of my mechanical learning was probably when I was a tank driver. The drivers(bilge rats) are responsible for the maintainance of their tank, that's where i learned that in a pinch when you're in the middle of nowhere - Apricot Jam makes a pretty good instant gasket to get out of trouble.