AD EXEC SEEKS MANUAL LABOR VALLEY COLLEGE TRAINING CAN OPEN MACHINE SHOP DOORS.Byline: BRENT HOPKINS STAFF WRITER Sam Robertson Sam Robertson (born October 11, 1985 in Dundee, Scotland) is an actor who appears in the British soap opera Coronation Street as Adam Barlow. He is a former model He took part in Sky One's The Match 2 but failed to make the team. labored through the executive life, only to trade it for a wrench wrench or spanner Tool, usually operated by hand, for tightening bolts and nuts. A wrench basically consists of a lever with a notch at one or both ends for gripping the bolt or nut so that it can be twisted by a pull at right angles to the axes of the lever and shop apron apron, n a piece of clothing worn in front of the body for protection. apron band, n a labioincisal or gingival extension of an orthodontic band that aids in retention of the band and in proper positioning of the bracket. . A 52-year-old Studio City advertising sales executive, he put in 30 years with his family's agency, doing, by most standards, fantastically well. He made $150,000 a year, worked in the entertainment industry, had a job where he never got his hands dirty. The kind of job most workers dream of. ``I've done it all and seen it all,'' he said, adjusting the controls on a Lagun Republic vertical milling machine milling machine Machine tool that rotates a circular tool with numerous cutting edges arranged symmetrically about its axis, called a milling cutter. The metal workpiece is usually held in a vise clamped to a table that can move in three perpendicular directions. . ``It was just a matter of time before I had a heart attack.'' So he started taking classes at Los Angeles Valley College LAVC redirects here. For the software library, see libavcodec. The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was , learning the basics of manual machining, hoping to move up one day to get into computer controlled operations. A home- hobbyist for years, he'd built go-karts and tinkered with things in the garage, but never anything professional. Taking with him the training from Valley College, he plans to open a co-op with a friend to focus on parts for Panavision camera lenses. With only one other manufacturer, the one tiny piece has a six-month backlog of orders and commands $150 apiece a·piece adv. To or for each one; each: There is enough bread for everyone to have two slices apiece. [Middle English a pece : a, a; see a . He won't get his old salary but thinks he'll be considerably more relaxed in his new, hands-on position. ``I don't want the students to just think of themselves as machine operators,'' said Michael Avila, who teaches the class in tool manufacturing. ``I want them to think like machine shop owners. I want them to see all the things they can do with this.'' Robertson figures he'll start small to build a name for himself, then work his way up to more challenging projects down the road. With major manufacturers outsourcing small jobs to little shops like the one he hopes to run, he's taken the path that industry watchers say is the key to survival. ``The first time I cut metal on a lathe lathe (lāth), machine tool for holding and turning metal, wood, plastic, or other material against a cutting tool to form a cylindrical product or part. It also drills, bores, polishes, grinds, makes threads, and performs other operations. , I felt like a god,'' he said. ``I started thinking, man, it'd be great if I could get paid to do this.'' Brent Hopkins, (818) 713-3738 brent.hopkins(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: After 30 years in the family's advertising agency, Sam Robertson is training for what he figures to be a more relaxed career as a machine shop operator and owner. Andy Holzman/Staff Photographer |
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