[CAUT] 1966 G-2 THANKS ALL!!

[Ron Nossaman]

>> Common sense is an oxymoron. <snip>  The numbers are there so we don't 
>> HAVE to remember which way the count goes. We can figure it out from 
>> the placement of the numbers and hitch pattern (if necessary).
>>
> 
> Ok, so maybe not common sense, but everything else about our culture 
> puts us in the mindset of things naturally progressing from left to 
> right.  When one sees a 15 stamped on the plate, for example, it is 
> completely natural to be in the mindset that that unison and the wires 
> to the right of that stamp are 15 and those to the left of that stamp 
> are size 15 1/2 (or whatever the next size stamp reads), but that is not 
> the case at all.
> Jeff


Is Japanese written left to right? My point is that the information 
is there, and is easily extracted and fairly obvious if we can just 
get past our collection of completely natural crippling 
ethnocentricities long enough to read and process it. It's precisely 
all the inflexible little things that we were taught from birth and 
automatically think we assume to be immutable facts (natural, 
intuitive) that so often  make it difficult for us to see what's 
right in front of us. You look at the layout, and extrapolate in the 
simplest possible  terms to determine the system rather than 
assuming a system and adding complications like implied wire sizes 
to try to make it fit. I see the scale numbers thing as a non 
problem that should have taken less thought to work out than any one 
of the posted messages it prompted.

Just my take. Back to the shop.

Ron N