The editor of National Driller magazine, Jeremy Verdusco, has asked us older writers to write about some difficult jobs we have encountered in our careers and how we solved the difficulty. This first chapter of my many years of experience was not really a great problem, but it was difficult. So here is chapter number one.
In the years shortly after World War II, our industry saw many new products. Some of these used new materials that had become popular during the war. I think it is safe to say there were many innovations — some good, which we still use today, and some not so good. Some materials that our industry had to use in the war years due to shortages worked very well, and others didn’t work well at all.