Golden Jubilee
Posts: 8946
Joined: Thu Dec 27, 2012 12:45 pm
Location: Canada's left Coast
Wed Feb 01, 2017 5:45 pm
Re: Why the obsesion with a push button?
I have a MOTORS MANUAL from the 1950s. The Motors manual and a bunch of others came from our service station. The 1950s manual has about 300 pages of detailed information on fifty makes of vehicles for 50 years. IHC is not mentioned. I bought a Daimler Chrysler shop service manual for my 2002 Ram 2500 Diesel 4X4. The manual is more than 1000 pages of detail information.
My employer had a library of binders for the vehicles we worked on. It was impossible to know everything all of the time. It was generally held that the smartest mechanic was the one who knew how to read. Photo-copies of relevant pages were always available to us. The company paid a subscription to Cummins Insite Professional and each of us had the entry code. The Cummins access was a computer on a "crash-cart".
Detroit Diesel, DDEC had a multi thousand dollar scan system from Kent Moore. The Kent Moore scan tool was almost free, the cartridges cost hundreds of dollars, each and had to be signed out.
One of the bonuses of getting old is forgetting so much stuff. Another bonus of old age is not giving a $hit about knowing stuff. The internet has changed so much of the need to know to knowing how to how to use GOOGLE.
Guys like CB89 and Scottso are a special breed of sharp minds.
My employer had a library of binders for the vehicles we worked on. It was impossible to know everything all of the time. It was generally held that the smartest mechanic was the one who knew how to read. Photo-copies of relevant pages were always available to us. The company paid a subscription to Cummins Insite Professional and each of us had the entry code. The Cummins access was a computer on a "crash-cart".
Detroit Diesel, DDEC had a multi thousand dollar scan system from Kent Moore. The Kent Moore scan tool was almost free, the cartridges cost hundreds of dollars, each and had to be signed out.
One of the bonuses of getting old is forgetting so much stuff. Another bonus of old age is not giving a $hit about knowing stuff. The internet has changed so much of the need to know to knowing how to how to use GOOGLE.
Guys like CB89 and Scottso are a special breed of sharp minds.
I would rather have tools I do not need than to need tools I do not have
