{"id":8678,"date":"2022-05-17T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T06:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/tim-hunkin-on-prototyping-welding-and-on-being-a-jack-of-all-trades\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:03:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T08:03:30","slug":"tim-hunkin-on-prototyping-welding-and-on-being-a-jack-of-all-trades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/tim-hunkin-on-prototyping-welding-and-on-being-a-jack-of-all-trades\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Hunkin on Prototyping, Welding, and on Being a &#8220;Jack of all Trades&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uY1ZbLlQwqE?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>I always like Tim Hunkin&#8217;s videos, even when they are not directly related to radio electronics. In this one we learn about his prototyping techniques &#8212; this does seem similar to what many of us do when building rigs. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I liked his explanation of welding, and of the dangers of the angle grinder (his precautions on this device were similar to those in a recent video by &#8220;Spirited Man&#8221; Van Neistat). <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Tim&#8217;s final comment on how in the modern world we seem to have moved away from the notion of having one person skilled in many different areas &#8212; we are now very specialized, so the &#8220;Jack of All Trades&#8221; is increasingly rare. That&#8217;s a shame. Oh well, we can be Jacks of all Trades in our radio shacks. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Thanks Tim! <\/b><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always like Tim Hunkin&#8217;s videos, even when they are not directly related to radio electronics. In this one we learn about his prototyping techniques &#8212; this does seem similar to what many of us do when building rigs. I liked his explanation of welding, and of the dangers of the angle grinder (his precautions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2022\/05\/17\/tim-hunkin-on-prototyping-welding-and-on-being-a-jack-of-all-trades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tim Hunkin on Prototyping, Welding, and on Being a &#8220;Jack of all Trades&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[335,119,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metal-work","category-uk","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11387,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8678\/revisions\/11387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}