Thread: 5 Hours To Tighten A Nut

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

That is appalling, remember the good old days when cars actually came with a tool kit, usually a couple of commonly used spanners and a couple of screwdrivers and even a pair of pliers.

Gosh, you are..... (as) OLD !

My side valve Hilman Minx came with a full workshop manual, including illustrating all the jacking points and measurements to straighten the chassis and body if bent.
Cheers

Originally Posted by austastar

My side valve Hilman Minx came with a full workshop manual, including illustrating all the jacking points and measurements to straighten the chassis and body if bent.
Cheers

Should have come with an Extra “L” as well

Originally Posted by Tombie

Even worse…

Back Hoe and Excavator are two different competencies

Same with Telehandlers - retracted, it’s a forklift.
Extended it becomes a Crane.

The number of bloody tickets I hold is insane.
3 tickets just for FELs… and I did the first one on a WA900. Then they made me do the smaller ones!

WA900....... not exactly a little bugga...
From memory it takes about 10 days to assemble one on the worksite.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

I met an old bloke the other day who is a retired fitter and turner who now keeps busy around the yard at his son's interstate trucking business, which specialises in caravans and is taking our former camper trailer to Sydney.
He mentioned he had been driving forklifts for over 30 years, but recently had to stop because an inspector said his certificate was not current.
He took a test, but failed because some of the questions seemed to have strange answers.
He said the inspector said a trainer would have to come from Canberra would you believe to recertify him.
As a retired trainer myself, not in forklifts, I know the aim should be, not to trick people with smartarse questions, but to ask questions which allow the person to demonstrate their competency e.g.
'Show me you can safely move that load from A to B.'
It's called Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL).
There's some old tradies working in Bunnings although they have skills because some young trainer didn't understand how RPL is supposed to work.

Some years ago I was party to watching a very competent hydraulic excavator operator about to be "tested" by a very pompous (Govt.) Dept Inspector. The Operator very calmly dismounted from the cabin, handed the keys to the Inspector, and told him to firstly show us how it should be done. To his credit, the Inspector handed the keys back to the Operator and said "Pass". Was the best way to defuse a potential embarrassing situation for the Inspector.

Originally Posted by 4bee

Don't forget bag of assorted length Cable Ties & a roll or two of PVC Duct Tape. Black preferably as it stands up to UV much better.

And a code reader if the vehicle or machine is full of electronic crap,which most modern ones are.

Surprisingly the late model vehicle under our carport has a few tools in the OEM tool kit,apart from wheel brace,jack handles,etc.

Reading the vehicles handbook,i have worked out one is a screwdriver type device that goes into a small slot in the center console, to get the vehicle out of park if the battery is flat.
The same tool,using another slot, opens the rear upper taigate,from inside, in the event it has a broken lock or the vehicles battery is flat.

Originally Posted by scarry

And a code reader if the vehicle or machine is full of electronic crap,which most modern ones are.

Surprisingly the late model vehicle under our carport has a few tools in the OEM tool kit,apart from wheel brace,jack handles,etc.

Reading the vehicles handbook,i have worked out one is a screwdriver type device that goes into a small slot in the center console, to get the vehicle out of park if the battery is flat.
The same tool,using another slot, opens the rear upper taigate,from inside, in the event it has a broken lock or the vehicles battery is flat.

Are you forgetting what those old ones with tool kits did?

Very regularly that tool kit was out being used!

The damn things hated hot weather mostly, especially hills….

They played up regularly.

All that “electronic crap” actually makes vehicles inherently reliable. When they fault it can be frustrating for sure, however it’s significantly less likely.

While they are far more complicated with little that can be done without the computer the operator has little to do maintenance wise.

The old weekly and monthly maintenance is a thing of history spoken about by a few who can still remember how it used to be