"Engineering" brilliance?

G'day all

Just had a relaxing hour courtesy of the Beeb's Iplayer, watching a programme on Thomas Chippendale. Quite mind blowing when viewed as the products of 250 years ago and the available tools! Just the designing alone would set him apart but when the exquisite quality of the work is seen, he was a veritable genius.

Desperately sad that he died in penury when his debtors families still live in extraordinary opulence and single furniture pieces fetch multi-million auction prices.

Why woodwork on an engineer's forum? Just the pure excellence of the skills involved, be it wood or metal, takes the breath away. Grinling Gibbons is next - definitely one to watch.

Rgds

Bill

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Nothing has changed Bill, 30 years of running my own motor body repair shop working on mainly Rolls Royce and Bentley and quite a few other exotic motors, i soon found that the more money a customer had the harder it was to get them to pay. The program was great by the way.

Cheers Derek.

P.S. Gave up on the car job years ago,

Hey Derek, how do you think those rich car owners got their money, yep thats right, by not giving it to the likes of you and me. Ian S C

For future reference chaps, there is an answer to this in the legal term (UK) "Repairers Lien" It basically means that you can collect the repaired item when you pay for it in cash, and not untill!

I had a sign in my workshop which said:

" All repairs must be paid for cash on collection. No credit will be entered into. Uncollected repairs will be kept for 3 months, then may be sold to ofset costs. Storage will be charged after 1 week."

I actually won a Jaguar XJ6 with this, so I know it works (in the UK anyway, other areas must check their local laws.)

Phil

I think that was the source of my 'new' Astra - it was from a repair (not sales) garage who accepted from a chap so at least he got his van back...

Neil