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[Ronniej]

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[ukdave2002]

[Peter_L]

I served a long apprenticeship, roughly 64 years to date. I have now developed skills that involved making so many things out of so little that I can now make absolutely anything out of completely nothing.

[Ray White]

Don't laugh, some kid probably got a GCSE A* in 'Engineering principles' for that!

[goneps]

The bloke I worked with in Crawley in the early 'seventies had a simple engineering axiom: "If it moves, oil it; if it doesn't move, hit it till it moves, then oil it".

Richard

[ka]

To be fare to the person, the concept is correct, if it should move, then it should move freely, with little lateral or vertical play, if it shouldn't move, then it shouldn't!
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KA

Better three than four.

[Bellroth]

My father, long since departed, was a fine engineer. He taught me years ago that an engineer was someone who knew whether to gently ease something apart or whether to clout it with a large hammer. This has so far served me well. Although this philosphy has become clouded in recent years by the more modern idea of "Don't force it - use a hammer!"

Bellroth

[clan chieftain]

Or in the Post Office Garage years ago.....If it doesnt move...paint it.
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[Peter_L]

Hi Larry...... Just like the at the Coal Board in the 1960's,

"It's not &*(&^ stuck, your &*^%$% hammer's too &*&^%$ small !!!

[baconsdozen]

An old boat builder I worked with had a similar philosophy with wood screws. He insisted they were put in with a hammer and taken out with a screwdriver.
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

[Peter_L]

[Penman]

Hi

[Ray White]

Not all hammers are synonymous with brute force.

A 'shrinking' hammer can be used in a most creative way by a skilled panel beater.