12-08-2020, 06:55 PM
What really bugs me is to see modern bolt heads with raised letters. These should be machined off. Oh for the days of the Williams Brothers fasteners factory in Sheffield. You could ask at the counter for some obscure fitting that needed to be, say, fully machined and chemically blacked. On one occasion the sales chap said that I'd better come with him to check, as he didn't want to traipse around the building putting stuff back. Off we went down a long corridor, taking the second set of stairs on the right; up two floors, another corridor, a flight of stairs to the left and stopped half-way down a set of shelving packed with boxes. He reached up, selected a carton and said, "Are these right?" They were. I asked if the location of everything was logged in a book; He replied in the negative and tapping his head said, "It's mostly in here."