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Re: Busy? I am turning work away
bagman wrote:
kwatt wrote:
Can I just ask a simple question please, I beg your indulgence for a moment even if this goes wildly off-topic and, if it does, one of us will split the thread…
With the collective knowledge on this site, is there any real excuse for a less than competent engineer/repairer?
K.
Knowledge doesn’t endow competence. You can can have all the information in the world at your fingertips, but if you don’t have the ability to use it properly then it’s useless, possibly dangerous.
I agree entirely. It’s not just down to knowledge or even IQ. I’ve met people with brilliant minds who are useless at physical tasks. As a kid I had very poor manual dexterity but this improved after I left school. Now I’m getting older and I seem to be getting more clumsy again but that might be mainly down to failing eyesight. Some of the jobs on modern machines are a bit like keyhole surgery. An example is changing the drum paddles on Hoover machines. They are held with one tiny stainless torx screw that you can get at through the sump hose outlet. As the screw is stainless you can’t secure it with a magnetic bit and its over to one edge of the sump outlet so you don’t have good access.
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