Major flaw in the world of engineering

Not just engineers. Everybody and every thing when we were just apes. Then mankind learned to talk which not only enabled us to transfer each bit of discovered knowledge but revolutionises the way we think by enabling us to create our internal monologue. The transfer of knowledge took a leap forward when we invented BOOKS and actually read them, a skill that seems to have been lost recently.

(There was an interesting program on the BBC a couple of years ago that explained that people born deaf and dumb who are not taught sign language have difficulty in progressing mentally beyond a 5yr old because without speech they cannot develop an internal monologue, which develops in children only when they learn to speak)

If you apply common sense and logic in the workshop you will find that you know more and have skills that you never knew you had and you will find that fitting a backplate, especially one that is part finished and threaded, is a very simple task. As I have said before, if a method works for you then you must have done something right no matter what any other's opinion may be. Don't be afraid to try anything because you will not make a mistake, you will just learn a lesson and we all must have scrap-boxes full of 'lessons', I certainly have. Remember, the man who never made a mistake never made anything.

Edited By Chris Crew on 24/04/2023 09:08:36

+1 for that Chris

My dad used to say that " experience is built on mountains of scrap. "

Roy