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[EdMat]

Engineered to be quick to build at the factory using sub assemblies. When the poor mechanic has to go 2 or 3 deep into those sub assemblies to do what should be a simple job, that's when the #%%^ hits the fan.

 

[Gwolf]

Engineered to be quick to build at the factory using sub assemblies. When the poor mechanic has to go 2 or 3 deep into those sub assemblies to do what should be a simple job, that's when the #%%^ hits the fan.

It's not just that. When I worked at the phosphate mine the engineers would go pull the original blueprints from the headquarters building when they wanted to modify a process. They wouldn't even send anybody into the plants to take measurements. The process they wanted to modify may have already been modified and patched on, and no telling what else, so it would differ from the original blueprints. The engineers would order ductwork, piping, hydraulic gates, pumps, and all sorts of stuff, based on the original blueprints. Half of it wouldn't bolt up when it got there. Then management would pull some of us from the shops to modify the brand new items so they would fit and it was always a rush job. The engineer drawings and measurements would end up being a waste of time and the drawings that had correct measurements and made the parts fit were done in a little spiral rib pocket note pad. Far as I know, none of the final modification details/measurements ever made it into the files, so the process just repeated next time the plans called for another modification.