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Originally Posted by Jordan Baker
It was more of a comment to how blatantly obvious it was that "Yes the hood did need to be opened before the engine could come out" The nice thing with these old machines and their manuals is that you don't need a doctorate to work on them.
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Jordan, if you understand that these were written so the simplest farm hand could understand them, then you realise how ingenious their system was. It's kind of like the "cartoon" type military weapons manuals of the Viet Nam era - they recognised that the average educational aptitude of the average recruit wasn't all that high and rewrote everything accordingly. To us, it's somewhat amusing and a bit insulting, but for someone with no more than a Grade 8 education,
they worked.
And believe me, the K.I.S.S. principle remains sacred, in
any organised environment...
