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Title: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: cappisj1 on December 17, 2020, 01:29:56 PM
Picture of a v700 shop manual section. The way it’s written made me think of Shakespeare.


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Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: guzzisteve on December 17, 2020, 01:44:56 PM
That would really confuse tech's that don't know points.
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: dguzzi on December 17, 2020, 03:17:08 PM
  We had machines (Italian) that had statements like Tighten to a moment of toil"  it was my job to translate the translations. Good fun! Got me a trip to Santorso, Italy!   They got much better as time went by, we were the first distributor for them in the US.

   I tried to keep it so everyone could understand, no Shakespeare.
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: Tom on December 17, 2020, 05:37:09 PM
The owner's manual for the '80 Convert is fun to read for "testing acceleration". 
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: Don G on December 18, 2020, 10:51:26 AM
You would likely need to have "Mechanic" printed on your ticket not "Technician" to understand point ignition anyway.  DonG :evil:
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: bmc5733946 on December 18, 2020, 12:26:54 PM
I learned about point style ignitions from a great man, Robert MacDonald! By the end of his class every student could draw both an electrical schematic and physical representation of an ignition system. That really helped when learning about electronic ignition which was already coming on in 1970. I can still manage to draw a physical representation of a point style ignition all these years later. Thank you Bob!!

Brian
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: pehayes on December 18, 2020, 06:39:29 PM
IIRC there was an old V7 user's manual with instructions for checking the oil level.
"Insert the oil stick and screw it up completely."

:-(

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA
Title: Re: Shop Manual - poetry...
Post by: Lumpy Idle on December 21, 2020, 12:19:21 PM
IIRC there was an old V7 user's manual with instructions for checking the oil level.
"Insert the oil stick and screw it up completely."

:-(

Patrick Hayes
Fremont CA

when i was a kid my parents bought a nifty little 8mm movie camera made by a company that no one had heard of. the company was called "nikon" (yes, i am THAT old.)  i will never forget one of the lines from that manual: "With the fingers of the left hand attached..."