<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2007 6:34 AM, John Delacour <<a href="mailto:JD@pianomaker.co.uk">JD@pianomaker.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div> <div>At 07:31 -0800 14/12/07, you wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <div>If you look hard enough you will find a machinist whose brain is not befuddled with CNC and has learned to do a simple job the proper way.</div> <div><br></div> <div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Exactly!  Isn't it great to find people who have working brain cells?  I got so frustrated when taking my car to the Honda dealer for service.  Their "mechanics" seem to know nothing except what their service procedure manuals state.  I had a problem with an oxygen sensor (rough running engine) that wasn't showing up with their computer diagnostics.  They said they couldn't find anything wrong. So I found an older mechanic with some real sense, and he fixed it handily.  I have been using him repeatedly. </div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Good for us to remember as well.</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>JF