Dean.Dashwood@enron.com wrote:
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> Really? How do you check the brake lights with only one mechanic?
It's done with Lucas Magic!..... (Smoke and Mirrors) :)
Joe
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> Actually, the only time I've ever seen two mechanics work on a car at once
> is during an MOT, when the government decides how much the garage is
> allowed to charge. I assume that it's cheaper to pay one guy to sit in the
> car and turn the lights on at the same time as another guy checks they all
> work and are aligned, than it would be to have one mechanic walking
> backwards and forwards between the light switch and the front of the car.
> Especially given how little money these junior guys probably earn.
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> To: "Dean Dashwood" <Dean.Dashwood@enron.com>, spitfires@autox.team.net
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> Subject: Re: Silver cars (was Re: Metal prep started -- reassurance?)
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> You mean that in the UK, a garage will have TWO mechanics
> working on a car at the same time???
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> If they started doing that here, the labor rates would double!!!
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> Doug Braun
> '72 Spit
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> At 01:35 PM 8/23/00 +0100, you wrote:
> > When he took the car for its MOT, the junior mechanic (whose
> >job is to sit in the car and play with the light switches and things when
> the
> >other mechanic tells him to) just gawped at the shiny silver paintwork.
> Then
> >the car went up on the ramp, and the gawp became even bigger when he saw
> the
> >same shiny silver paint all over the underneath of the car too! Must have
> made
> >his day.....
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