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Someone gave me this 'Haynes' manual from the late 50s when I first started motoring. An electric drill would have cost as much as the entire project.
Don.

[Brian M]

This was the start of the Haynes Publishing empire

http://www.haynes.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/HaynesAboutView?langId=-1&storeId=10001&catalogId=10001

Last years sales of £34m provided profits of £8.3m - not bad starting from a 5 shilling booklet!

Where would we all be without our Haynes manuals?

[Uncle Joe]

The way Haynes manuals have deteriorated ove r the past few years, better off!

There seems to be so many mistakes in them nowadays!

UJ

[pigtin]

Paid 20 quid for a specialist book on restoring Midgets and Sprites, turned out to be useless. Although it claimed to cover restoration it was only if you had bought a new 'Heritage' body.
Any little technical detail I wanted to know had not been covered and I had to go to my Haynes for it.
I know there are mistakes in the Haynes, there always have been, but they are still pretty useful.

Don.

[Penman]

Hi
Before finding Haynes manuals, I had a couple of Vivas HB and HC.
I found the Olyslager manuals to be very good.

They are still to be found on Ebay.

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?sofocus=bs&sbrftog=1&catref=C6&from=R10&satitle=olyslager&sacat=9800%26catref%3DC6&a6=-24&a25563=-24&a44811=-24&a10244=-24&alist=a10244%2Ca39%2Ca41%2Ca25563%2Ca44811%2Ca6&pfmode=1&reqtype=1&gcs=2399&pfid=3533&pf_query=olyslager&floc=1&sargn=-1%26saslc%3D2&sadis=200&fpos=BB3+2JZ&sabfmts=1&saobfmts=insif&ga10244=10425&ftrt=1&ftrv=1&saprclo=&saprchi=&fsop=1%26fsoo%3D1&coaction=compare&copagenum=1&coentrypage=search

[Brian M]

Agreeing (a bit) with UJ, I thought I should post this translation of terms used in Haynes Manuals


Haynes: Rotate anticlockwise.
Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer anticlockwise.

Haynes: This is a snug fit.
Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer.

Haynes: This is a tight fit.
Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with a hammer.

Haynes: As described in Chapter 7...
Translation: That'll teach you not to read right through before you start. Now you are looking at scary photos of the inside of a gearbox.

Haynes: Prise off...
Translation: Hammer a screwdriver into...

Haynes: Undo...
Translation: Go buy a tin of WD40 (giant economy size).

Haynes: Retain tiny spring...
Translation: PINGGGG - "Jesus, where the hell did that go?"

Haynes: Press and rotate to remove bulb...
Translation: OK - that's the glass bit off, now fetch some good pliers to dig out the bayonet part (and maybe a plaster or two).

Haynes: Lightly slacken...
Translation: Start off lightly and build up till the veins on your forehead are throbbing then clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer.

Haynes: Weekly checks...
Translation: If it isn't broken don't fix it.

Haynes: Routine maintenance...
Translation: If it isn't broken, it's about to be. We warned you!

Haynes: One spanner rating.
Translation: An infant could do this... so how did you manage to **** it up?

Haynes: Two spanner rating.
Translation: Now you may think that you can do this because two is a low, teensy weensy number... but you also thought the wiring diagram was a map of the Tokyo underground (in fact, that would have been more use to you).

Haynes: Three spanner rating.
Translation: Make sure you won't need your car for a couple of days.

Haynes: Four spanner rating.
Translation: You're not seriously considering this are you?

Haynes: Five spanner rating.
Translation: OK - but don't ever transport your loved ones in it again.

Haynes: If not, you can fabricate your own special tool like this...
Translation: Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Haynes: Compress...
Translation: Squeeze with all your might, jump up and down on it, throw it at the garage wall, then find some molegrips and a hammer...

Haynes: Inspect...
Translation: Squint at really hard and pretend you know what you are looking at, then declare in a loud knowing voice to your wife, "Yep, it's as I thought, it's going to need a new one"

Haynes: Carefully...
Translation: You are about to suffer serious abrasions.

Haynes: Retaining nut...
Translation: Yes, that's it, that big spherical blob of rust.

Haynes: Get an assistant...
Translation: Prepare to humiliate yourself in front of someone you know.

Haynes: Difficult to reach ...
Translation: Assembled at the factory and never meant to be touched.

Haynes: Turning the engine will be easier with the spark plugs removed.
Translation: However, starting the engine afterwards will be much harder. Once that sinking pit of your stomach feeling has subsided, you can start to feel deeply ashamed as you gingerly refit the spark plugs.

Haynes: Refitting is the reverse sequence to removal.
Translation: Yeah, right. But you swear in different places.

Haynes: Prise away plastic locating pegs...
Translation: Snap off...

Haynes: Using a suitable drift...
Translation: Clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer.

Haynes: Everyday toolkit
Translation: RAC Card & Mobile Phone (but don't forget your molegrips and hammer!)

Haynes: Apply moderate heat...
Translation: Unless you have a blast furnace, don't bother. Alternatively, clamp with molegrips then beat repeatedly with hammer.

Haynes: Index
Translation: List of all the things in the book, bar what you need to do.

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Ratchet ? a little larger that a mouse's.