Reminds me of a story that I heard years ago while on an assignment in England.
Seems that the Rolls Royce company didn't have an automatic transmission in their cars. Since automatic transmissions were the up-and-coming thing they decided that they needed one to offer in the Roolls Royce. Rather than design one from scratch they surveyed the field and decided that the best of breed was one made by General Motors. They entered into an agreement with GM to use theirs. They took a GM automatic transmission into their shop and tore it down completely. They wanted any transmission that was going into a Rolls Royce to be top quality, inside and out. Everything passed muster except for one part. It had a rough surface. That just wouldn't do so they machined the surface to a Rolls Royce standard. The trouble was that when the transmission was assembled it wouldn't work. They contacted GM and found out that the surface in question had to be rough or the transmission wouldn't work. Best to trust the judgment of the design engineers. 72, Jim - W4BQP K2 #2268 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
