ditto on the sentiment.
...have notice a lot of that stuff on those car shows these days.
Details don't matter apparently. Takes up too much time away from
advertising the products and parts
ptegler
On 5/11/2022 6:55 PM, John Macartney wrote:
> Jonmac is in grumpy old git mode today!
>
> Took the dog for a shorter walk today because of the rain. This meant me on
> my mobility scooter with dog alongside, traversing a nearby industrial estate
> where thereâ??s a car body shop specialising in repainting and lots of
> difficult sheet metal stuff. I know them all quite well and the dogs always
> welcome, so Iâ??m allowed inside to see what theyâ??re doing and having a
> chat. Today a trainee was reassembling a cylinder head on a Repainted Herald
> and I was horrified to see the lack of washers under the head nuts. I
> didnâ??t say anything but it annoyed me. For a start, it flew fully in the
> face of my training years ago. When fitting hardware, you always always
> always fitted a washer under the bolt head and another washer under the nut.
> These days when I watch TV of some bloke fitting something to something else,
> the use of washers is minimal to non existent. Why? I made that mistake of
> not using a washer once a long time ago at Jaguar when I was doing my Service
> Dept training and my omission was noted by the Senior Foreman who was a
> stickler for doing things right every time, all the time. My punishment? A
> missed lunch break because it was spent on all fours pushing a one inch
> diameter plain washer round the lube bay floor with my nose - twice! The
> first lap was because of what I didnâ??t do and the second was so Iâ??d never
> forget. Thatâ??s how it was in the U.K. in those days and there was nothing
> illegal in humiliating someone at work and if Iâ??d refused, there would have
> been a disciplinary. I think that if the trainee I saw not doing his job
> today was told to do what I did sixty years ago, heâ??d have his employer in
> court for damages and unreasonable workplace treatment! Itâ??s these know-all
> jerks on TV like the Top Gear mob, Clarkson, Hammond, Mike Brewer and a few
> others doing it wrong, that is teaching youngsters that sloppy work is
> perfectly acceptable.
> Now going back to my hole in the ground where there are fresh leaves, clean
> moss and an interesting Single Malt awaiting my enjoyment.
>
> JM
>
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> Churchill: â?? Madam, if I was your husband,, Iâ??d drink it!â??
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