Yes, that is pretty scary, all right.
But what I don't understand is the need for this gimcrack procedure in the
first place. If I'm the engineer, and the first axle comes off the line, and
we start to dismantle it for QA, and the pumpkin is .012" too large to come
out of the housing, I don't go back to my drawing board and invent a
medieval device to spread the casing, and immediately order it into
production. I go to the housing drawing and change the hole dimension by
.015, and send it out as a change order. That would be the rational
response, but then it is pretty obvious that rationality didn't have a lot
to do with the arcane goings-on inside the ineffable
Austin-Morris-Nuffield-Leyland universe... again, I say, good grief...
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 7/15/05 5:58 AM, Bob Howard at mgbob@juno.com wrote:
> Max,
> Take a look at illustration Ha.1 in the workshop manual. That's the
> bizzare stretcher rig. The Salisbury axles have deep holes in the
> casting, into which the bolt&nut you see in the middle of the beams fit.
> Looks like a tool left over from the Inquisition, doesn't it?
> Bob
>
>
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 15:05:11 -0700 Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
> writes:
>> I've never done this job (I have a banjo), but I'm gathering that the
>> lack of 1/100th of an inch of space requires using a spreader tool?
> Heck,
>> I'd get out the grinder, too, in that situation. How did they ever let
> that
>> out of engineering? Good grief...
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Max Heim
>> '66 MGB GHN3L76149
>> If you're near Mountain View, CA,
>> it's the primer red one with chrome wires
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