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Chat => Jokes n Stuff => Topic started by: Black Sheep on May 20, 2016, 08:45:27 PM
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A ship engine failed and no one could fix it.
Then they brought in a chap with 40 yrs. on the job.
He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom. After looking things over, the guy reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. The engine was fixed!
7 Days later the owners got his bill for 10k.
'What?!' the owners said ...... 'You hardly did anything, send us an itemized bill'.
The reply simply said .... 'Tapping with a hammer' = $2. 'Knowing where to tap' = $9,998
Don't ever underestimate experience.
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Very true. And close to the knuckle... A few weeks ago, I found a small but very noticeable dent in my car door, clearly caused by careless, if not malicious, opening of somebody else's door in a car park. It annoyed me such much I decided to get it fixed and had it done by a 'paintless dent removal' process, whereby it is tapped out from the other side.
It was incredibly successful, the dent has vanished, with no disruption to the paint finish. But I know for sure, if I'd tried to do it DIY, it would have ended badly. Knowing where to tap is indeed a skill worth paying for. :D
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Ha ha ................. funnily enough, we bought a brand new motor last year and within days a similar thing happened.
We employed the expertise of a local 'Dent remover' and he used little more than a suction pad to pop the dent out ....... he also had to colour-match the teeny-weeny bit of paint that had been removed.
All in all, we paid £60 for about an hours work, but by god, you can't tell there was ever anything wrong. Great job.
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True. Knowing where to tap is an often underestimated skill.