Lies we tell ourselves in the shop

[PHPaul]

"I don't need to take a picture or make a sketch, I'll remember how it goes back together."

And it's First Corollary: "It'll only be apart a day, two max."

The arm that holds the idler gear for the lead screw drive can go on 4 ways. 8 if you count the 4 possibilities for the gear itself.

Downside up and bass ackwards is one of them...

 

[WCraig]

"If I just hit it a *little* harder, it is going to come apart"

 

[higgite]

“I don’t need to write down the sequence of steps to make this complicated critical part that I’ve never made before. It’s intuitively obvious to a machining genius like myself.”

Tom

 

[westerner]

"That part should be easy to find. I mean, everybody has this (machine, tool, part, truck, etc.), right?

 

[tertiaryjim]

I'll put all these parts together on one shelf so their easy to find when it goes back together, next week.

 

[benmychree]

OR, D, "ALL OF THE ABOVE"

 

[eeler1]

This will only take a few minutes.

 

[hermetic]

A quick touch up and a clean is all it needs!

 

[Bi11Hudson]

Applies to any job, not just machining. ?How many jobs sitting on the shelf because I can't remember?

 

[PHPaul]

"If I just hit it a *little* harder, it is going to come apart"

Hah!

I do small engine work for toy money. I have a job parked waiting on a new carb because the customer figured if he tightened that little bolt on the bottom of the float bowl enough, it would stop leaking...