McLaren Servicing - What a shambles....

[andrew]

BURNIE said:

Just my euros worth.
How many people here actually know of a young person going into mechanical engineering?
Because in the last 30 years I know of one lad who has decided to take this type of career ????
Everybody wanting office based jobs. ????

and the irony is that all us poor souls stuck in offices* actually dream of doing something more constructive with hammers and spanners

* wfh, but that's being pedantic

[12pack]

BURNIE said:

Just my euros worth.
How many people here actually know of a young person going into mechanical engineering?
Because in the last 30 years I know of one lad who has decided to take this type of career ????
Everybody wanting office based jobs. ????

A bit OT, but I’m in the semiconductor business. When I look at all the applications my products are going into, I am convinced we are in the start of the 4th Industrial Revolution - pervasive automation and intelligent interconnected devices. Indeed jobs involving manipulation of physical objects have a limited life cycle. Can still be a great hobby though.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/business/scrap-...

Edited by 12pack on Sunday 9th May 09:17

[AndrewD]

andrew said:

and the irony is that all us poor souls stuck in offices* actually dream of doing something more constructive with hammers and spanners

* wfh, but that's being pedantic

Best if you don’t. Look what you did to your car last time they let you use hammers and spanners.

[lowndes]

AndrewD said:

Best if you don’t. Look what you did to your car last time they let you use hammers and spanners.

November 2020



Some Lockdown months of hammering and spannering later

[AndrewD]

lowndes said:

November 2020



Some Lockdown months of hammering and spannering later

Well done! To be fair, you seem more adept with tools than either of us Andrews!

[andrew]

nah !
i'd have spotted the missing wheel

[AndrewD]

andrew said:

nah !
i'd have spotted the missing wheel

Nothing gets past you eh?
Apart from that 1.0 Micra. And the bicycle, being pushed by a 1 legged tortoise.
But apart from that!

[andrew]

YarisGrandad said:

andrew said:

nah !
i'd have spotted the missing wheel

Nothing gets past you eh?
Apart from that 1.0 Micra. And the bicycle, being pushed by a 1 legged tortoise.
But apart from that!

whatever

[lowndes]

andrew said:

nah !
i'd have spotted the missing wheel

Thanks, missed that.

This agricultural machinery from the ‘60’s is not too bad, but I have no clue how to even access modern stuff. As for that YouTube guy stripping down a 720 that had a cracked tub and fitting it all back into a different shell, the mind boggles. Though the complexity did give some insights into the reasons for the occasional “Key not found”