[TR] Why

[Patrick Baize]

True

     I learned to work on cars by myself, take it apart , put it back 
together.

     In the 70's as a teen , my moms daisy clock that hung above the 
kitchen door quit working, took it apart , never got it back together.  
I found a daisy clock on Ebay couple years ago  (same as hers)  working 
and sent it to her for her birthday. Made her day.

Patrick

71 Stag

74 Spitfire

On 5/11/2022 7:11 PM, Bob wrote:
> Jonmac,
>
> Interesting story. I was never taught how to work on cars. I just 
> picked it up as a hobby. It is simple really, you take something apart 
> and you put it back together in the reverse. 5 Triumphs later and one 
> cycle and they all run just fine. And the same with all the rest of 
> the folks on this list.
>
> And by the way, took out the 3 today for lunch at the Legion. Purred 
> like a kitten.
>
> Bob
>
> On 5/11/22 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 there’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 I’m allowed inside to see 
>> what they’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 didn’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 didn’t do and the second was so I’d never 
>> forget. That’s how it was in the U.K. in those days and there was 
>> nothing illegal in humiliating someone at work and if I’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, he’d have his employer in court for damages and unreasonable 
>> workplace treatment! It’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
>>
>> Lady Astor: “Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your 
>> coffee.”
>> Churchill: “ Madam, if I was your husband,, I’d drink it!”
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