Bill
serious or not you and I think along the same lines in that the health of the equipment is paramount because if that fails the product is wasted anyway. I agree with you that there are lots of so called engineers that do what you mentioned, I do not specifally blame these engineers it is the fact that there is to much work for the guys at the coal face so corners are cut. Gary probably has never had to take the crank out of a Grasso RC11 because some fiddler had decided to keep resetting the oil pressure switch instead of calling for the engineer who would have changed the oil filter in about twenty minutes with no long term damage.

Ian