Thread: Bent Pro-shot cleaning rod

the difference between an engineer and a echanical fitter is the engineer has spent 10,000 hours doing tedious file work

Originally Posted by Fee Knicks

the difference between an engineer and a echanical fitter is the engineer has spent 10,000 hours doing tedious file work

I feel that this is the other way around, I've spent a long time carefully fitting things up by hand with a file only to have old mate engineer bowl in and hack into the next one to be done with a grinder and a gouging rod. Then tighten the M16 retaining bolts down to 230ftlbs after aligning it by eyeball and call it 'mean as bro' then wonder why the coupling flies to pieces three days later...

Fitting is the art of engineering, i.e. how to do it once and not have it fly to pieces on you!