[TR] TR4 turn signal & OD switch positions

[DAVID MASSEY]

 Thanks for the refresher.  How soon we forget the old blue-line, ammonia-based copiers, drafting tables, electric erasers and all those accoutrements of generating images manually.


Actually, I still have a few stencils, a triangle and my engineer's scale but the last drafting table, long drafted (no pun intended) into an assembly table, went away some years ago.

 

Dave Massey


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Porter <mdporter at dfn.com>
To: Sherman D Taffel <staffel at comcast.net>; triumphs <triumphs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 6:29 am
Subject: Re: [TR] TR4 turn signal & OD switch positions


    
On 6/7/2018 7:35 PM, Sherman D Taffel      wrote:
    
    
            
Hi Guys! Probably diagram  was for        RHD cars!  Never changed for LHD cars!
    
    
    Having done technical publications for well more than a decade,    that's probably not exactly what happened.  The photo shows LHD, not    RHD, but, maybe the RHD negative was reversed to save time, and    something was then lost when translating the positions of all the    controls.   After all, this was done well before the days of digital    imaging and PhotoShop--even copiers were new and relatively    rudimentary.  All imaging was done through old-fashioned photography    and manual paste-up transferred to rotogravure or offset printing.
    
    The truth is that the time of most in-house technical publications    shops is taken up with the most pressing changes, because, apart    from the aerospace industry, they're severely understaffed.  Stuff    that superficially looks okay gets a quick review and a pass.  Only    when I started running publications for a transit manufacturer did I    realize that the maintenance manuals hadn't been updated front page    to back in a dozen years, and that the books were riddled with    errors.  I logged untold unpaid hours of overtime fixing such    problems and still didn't catch them all.  The best I could do was    triage--getting the most important items fixed first.
    
    That's the way it actually works--in large part, the customer is    left to figure out the missed details and adjust accordingly.
    
    
    Cheers.
    
      
    
-- 


Michael Porter
Roswell, NM


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