On Sunday 30 October 2005 05:40 pm, JB@comcast wrote:
> That my friend.........
>
> <<Whoops, I forgot to add the seal.>>
>
> Is EXACTLY why folks should NOT re-build BRAKE components!!!
>
> It is not just YOUR life but other folks on the road!!!
>
I don't see how the facts support your implied assertion that non-professional
mechanics should not do their own brake work.
Guy tested his work and found the fault before he drove the car. What's wrong
with that? He certainly would have found the problem when he tried to bleed
the brakes. If Guy were the kind of mechanic who would have forgotten to
bleed the brakes, that would be a serious problem, but he just doesn't strike
me that way.
While auto mechanics is not as difficult to understand as, say, quantum
mechanics, basic skills and knowledge can handle simple systems such as those
found on our beloved Triumphs, especially if we can re-assemble in reverse
order. For modern vehicles, expert training is mandatory for all but the
simplest tasks.
>
> PS: As an example, I do not spend $2475 (last year) by signing a document
> that is an attachment to my Shop Keeppers Insurence!!! Must mean
> something<G>?!?
Not necessarily, at least not in the way you intend.
I applaud your personal professional commitment, but I have encountered shoddy
work performed by licensed and insured mechanics, so the document itself is
no guarantee of competency. Insurance is just a means to shift the risk of
your potential financial loss to the insurance carrier; it is in no way a
guarantee or warranty of your performance.
Nor is a professional license for that matter, because competency rests on the
application of skills by the individual, not a piece of paper. Yet that's not
foolproof, since even the best amongst us have the occasional bad day. If you
doubt that, why would any shopkeeper even bother with insurance?
The real risk (other than random chance) is that the amateur mechanic will not
hire out the work at the appropriate time because he or she lacks the
experience to make that decision. That's unfortunate, but there's little that
can be done short of making the shade tree mechanic a criminal because human
beings will certainly do stupid things all the time, occasionally with fatal
consequence.
If criminalization were a serious consideration, I would first prefer to
prosecute all the amateur body and fender mechanics. Many of them should burn
in some special, Bondo-encrusted Hell . . .
--
Hoyt
1954 TR2 TS561L
1959 TR3A TS33111L
1960 TR3A TS43923L
1960 TR3A TS74076L
1961 TR3A TS63304L
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