Personally, my intent is to fix things rather than bypass/bodge them, and if
a modificatoin to the original design is necessary, preference will be
given to modifications which are easily reversable.
Skye
Word on the street is that Bill Saidel said:
> At 07:46 PM 1/26/1999 -0000, you wrote:
> >If you REALLY want to bypass the rheostat all the ones I have seen have had
> >two spades on each terminal, so you just move one of the wires over to the
> >spare spade on the other side.
>
> >But come on, surely it's a point of honour to keep them in circuit?
>
> I want to take issue with the "point of honor [sic]". Years ago when I
> worked as a
> photographer, I got into an endless debate as to whether the only artistic
> photograph is one that uses the entire frame - no cropping allowed. The
> original
> image is the only valuable image.
>
> Took me years to resolve the issue in my mind and the answer goes like this:
> The final product is what is important, how I intend to present the image and
> how it is received. Crop the crap. It does not belong as part of my
> 'intention.'
>
> To translate this attitude into a point of honor MG issues, what is the
> intent? IF the intent
> of owning one is to drive and enjoy and fix and keep it running, then
> anything that works,
> elegant, crude, original (to Aberdeen) or not, is valuable.
>
> If the intent is to showcase an original, well, all modifications are off
> and one
> can ignore the subsequent 20-40 years time. To be completely true to
> original, then
> buying remanufactured parts from Moss or VB or ... should not be acceptable
> either.
> What then? A garage relic.
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