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DG 1110-3-126
August 1976
2-3 Participants
a. The Auto Crafts Center is frequently one of the most
popular of all arts and crafts facilities. The primary users
are assigned military personnel, both officers and enlisted
men. Others who are generally eligible to be shop patrons
on a space available basis are military retirees and depend-
ents of assigned personnel, whose vehicles are registered
with installation authorities.
b. The maximum number of participants to use the
center at any one time is limited by the amount of work
space available and the amount of space for instruction
and demonstrations. Since operating procedures generally
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require that vehicle owners must perform their o w n
repairs with possible help from friends who are eligible
patrons, the number of actual users at any one time is
relatively small. For a thirty-four stall facility, a reason-
able estimate of the maximum number of users perform-
ing repairs at one time might be sixty to seventy-five.
Classroom participation could add an additional thirty
patrons.
c.
Many factors influence the number of participants in
automotive craft activities, but one of the most important
is the interest that can be generated in a diversified pro-
gram. Efficient scheduling for a rapid turnover of projects
is also necessary for maximum participation. Usually,
participation will be proportional to the size of the facili-
ties readily available to the military community. It is
especially important that auto craft facilities be open on
weekends, holidays, evenings, and times when military
personnel are off duty. These are the times of maximum
participation.
d. Administrative personnel may include a shop super-
visor, one automatize repair instructor for every four stalls
in operation, a tool issue/sales attendant, and a few part-
time or visiting classroom instructors.
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