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I have had same kind of feeling since I was about eleven years old, things 'change' about every 8~10 years.
Usually it's a news broadcast I 'saw' 3 to 6 months before something actually happened, not serious or earth shattering, just strange. (Charlie Chaplin body being stolen and ransomed or similar)
I think the weirdest thing was a 'speaker glitch' I had about 10 minutes before mobile rang (this was in 1996)
I remember it vividly even today
A woman's voice I did not recognise in the rear of van I was driving to Merthyr Tidfil in South Wales.
It was like someone speaking over my shoulder but I was on my own so thought it was radio, except there wasn't a speaker in back of van.
'In a few minutes your going to get a call telling you your mother is dead, she had a heart attack but everything is okay and she doesn't want you to worry'.
Sure enough, about 10 minutes later
Deena, (dispatcher) calls and asks, 'Are you sitting down'
Me, 'Of course I am, can't drive standing up'
Deena, 'can you pull over I have something important to tell you'
Me, 'I know, heard it few minutes ago'
Deena, 'heard what'
Me, 'my mother'
There was more but it was so strange I've never mentioned it to anyone or anywhere until now.
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Even almost 70 years after launch it's still a great looking futuristic car.
Citroen were always innovators, in the 80's they had the closest thing you could get to active suspension without actually being computer controlled
I never found engines/transmission unreliable but the gas bags on suspension always ended up leaking (I only had old cars back then, oh, I still do)
Really was just as simple to swap out as in video, problem was, I only ever fitted (well ) used ones.
Castrol used to make LHM (at least in Europe)
Citroen used the weight of car to keep brake circuit pressurised if there was a leak (personally I never had a problem although getting used to brakes that work takes a little practice)
The nlater air cooled 1300 OHC GS flat four was a great car, 110mph, 25 ¬ 30mpg, go off road places a front wheel drive car shouldn't.
The most 'fun' thing, when someone is waving at you to 'back up' so they could get past, you pull the lever and car just rises up, exactly what they were indicating 😁
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In my experience of motorcycle engines, needle bearings will break through hardening of either crank-pin or big end (or both)
One of the problems is centrifugal loads at high rpm, which, with experience, can tell you if motor was over revved, dirty oil or had ignition problems.
(Harley Davidson are very obvious, over advanced ignition causes wear on top of pin and after TDC, over revving causes wear at bottom of pin, dirty oil, wear pretty much all the way around, plus, can wear flats on the rollers as they skid instead of rolling, inside of big end also shows wear patters)
Same thing happens on two strokes and other smaller engines but rpm has to be higher to overload bearings.(Honda had 9,500rpm single cyl push-rod motors in 1959 with only a 'dipper' on big end)
Did you mention the extra friction from the extra needle bearing on piston arm?
The machining isn't actually too difficult if block is mounted between centers in a dividing head or rotary table, I would guess a circular cutter, single point (fly cutter with round cutting edge)
Could it be made with dual cranks and opposing pistons as a two-stroke? (as used by Junkers)
A low rpm diesel could use the fuel for lubrication?
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Honda used dual balancers on 1978 CB250 and CB400 twin and continued until the 1985 CB450 twin, they ran at crank speed though
In 1969, BSA/Triumph were building inline 3 with a 120 degree 'twisted' crank so technology has been available a long time and obviously wouldn't cost any more to twist 75 degrees than 90 degrees
More than 20 years ago, I read the article about Phil Irvin's Triumph.
Back then, re-phased Yamaha XS 650's were being built and in vogue.
As the crank is splined in the middle, moving 3 splines gave an 83 degree offset, far cheaper than the custom made main-shaft to get a 270 degree twin and more or less half way between the two. Yamaha actually built XS650 as a 270 twin for racing
How can so many people still get the concept so totally wrong?
There is NOTHING about balance and everything about acceleration as reasoning for it in the original article, exactly as you describe around 17 minutes
Reduction in mass and lighter flywheel, one piston at maximum acceleration while the other at top of stroke. In practice, lighter flywheels give better lap times
The Triumph crank was around 200mm diameter with main flywheel 60mm wide and a bore spacing around 90mm, so, quite heavy.
The reduction in vibration was a secondary factor and not the primary reason for 75 degree crank
The article is available online, I may even have a copy of it somewhere.
BTW, Didn't KTM say they used a narrow angle to make motor shorter to have shorter wheelbase?
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I've been using 5w/30 full synthetic in my B2300 since 6,000 miles (yes, I know it's a Ford Ranger and hasn't been made since 2012).
I also did first oil change at 3,000 as I just didn't like the idea of a new vehicle waiting until 6,000 miles for it's first oil change. (being a motorcycle mechanic I was used to 1980's, 500 mile first oil change and every 1,500 after that)
It's now got over 110,000 miles, doesn't smoke or burn any oil although I will need to replace the rear main seal sometime as there is a very slight weep, but, it hasn't gotten any worse the last 3 years.
As for EV's, there was a rather interesting study done in Britain on EV pollution, mainly due to the extra weight from battery packs causing tyres to wear and produce various nasty substances in the sub 2 micron range (way more dangerous than the PSP 10 from diesels)
Sub 2 micron can get into the water supply and into pretty much everything which will cause health issues long term for kids born the last several years.
As far as I could tell, it's an issue for all tyres since they started putting silicates and different chemicals into the blends to get better wear and grip characteristics.
I probably need to re-read the article!
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This is a much better explanation than any other I've seen.
I have often wondered how much pollution the military produces, various aircraft being extremely inefficient but VERY high output (eg, on afterburner) and no limits set by anyone. (instead, motorists have to 'suffer' increasing legislation to compensate)
In a time of war or emergency, fair enough but general use 'on a jolly'?
Anyway, a supercharger and turbo would allow much smaller ports allowing side seals to be moved into outer covers, ceramic coatings less heat loss.
I still see issues with rotor expansion, one side of lobes being very hot and the other (relatively) very cold.
Maybe multiple intake/exhaust ports to induce extra swirl plus even out massive temperature gradient?
As diesels are direct injection, very high boost pressure can be used for scavenging, fuel being injected as usual during the burn cycle should allow a reasonably high rpm.
I would think it won't be a problem to fit inboard oil seals to main bearings then use pressure fed mains at least, reducing cost and weight even at expense of adding oil pump and reservoir?
Using 'specified' (two stroke) oil would allow a bleed off to lubricate internal gears.
Service interval would consist of changing spark plugs and topping up oil.
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I had downstream O2 sensor fail on my 2004 B2300 (Ford/Mazda) at about 80,000 miles.
It would run real rough and actually stop until things cooled down.
O2 sensors only run between 0.1 and 0.9 volts so it's easy to check with just a multi meter and propane torch.
You can measure voltage to see if sensor is working (it won't be dead accurate but shows if it's working, propane has different O2 levels)
Fitted the cheapest 'white box' one I could find and 40,000 miles later it's still running fine.
It has been giving a fuel cap air leak recently, probably needs a new gasket?
When I fitted a locking fuel cap, I got an extra 3 mpg, guess whoever was siphoning gas got bit of a shock?
I guess I could fit the original to see if it makes a difference.
That's using a lot of oil, at 120,000 miles my 2.3 isn't using half pint between changes , I would expect a 5.4, even in a van not to be working as hard (I have used full synthetic since 6,000 miles though, plus had it severely over loaded several times,4 x 340 lb motorcycles in bed, Pontiac 400 engine/transmission, etc)
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That was effin awesome!
All the very best machinist's can switch between Imperial and metric, nice to see someone so young doing it (now I feel really old - Oh, I am )
Glad you mentioned it was about half the cost of new plus 'only' a week lead time instead of months I was wondering just how expensive a new cylinder would be to make a VERY expensive repair worthwhile.
From the little I know, that was very expensive just in consumables., Sunnen honing oil is expensive in USA, god only knows the cost in Oz?
Honing stone sets were about $30.00 US in 2004, as with everything I bet price doubles by the time it gets to you, plus 18 years of inflation ( Sunnen were about half the price of the AMMCO hones I have, plus far easier to get)
I was a little surprised about Sunnen stone/guide sets, look exactly like the ones used in automotive applications, but I guess that's why Sunnen are still in business when other companies have shut down.
It's the first time I've seen a bore gauge that large actually being used, largest bores I was teaching people to hone were Harley Davidson cylinders, about 4"x 6" by the time they were too thin to use for teaching (although they did make 'different' lampshades when only the fins and anti 'ring' stringers were left)I had one student who had been a 'machinist' for 27 years who told me flat out it wasn't possible to hone cylinders without CNC machine to accuracy of +/- 0.0002", he did apologise at end of course though. (I think he was more of a machine minder rather than machinist?)
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Even removing 50% of the dust or sweeping it into a local area would provide a boost in power simply because the dust layer was thinner, that was taken into account during design phase.
Yeah, the excuse of electrostatic dust sticking really doesn't fly when it can be blown off by martian wind.
They have a robotic arm, pretty sure it wouldn't take a rocket scientist to program it when weight on panels is excessive due to dust build up, plus, could have actual picture to check it's needed, only needs houskeeping every 18 months or so, wear on solar panels would be pretty minimal
Don't even need to ship the dustpan
As pointed out in many other replies, the dust on solar panels is a well known cause of mars landers dying when they don't get enough power to continue.
Just 'hoping' a dust devil would clean things is a la-la land fairy story.
Shipping a nuclear powered rover, fine and dandy, until fuel runs out
NASA is well known for wasting taxpayer money, this doesn't do anything to improve the image, even experimental cleaning device would be worth the extra $100 million if it extended capabilities for a few more years (or even decades on a static lander doing passive monitoring) and handing it off to a series of universities would allow further research at no or little cost to NASA
Isn't the real reason more like, 'if we don't overspend, funding will be cut'
That seems far more common in any government agency, no incentive to be efficient and frugal.
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What an awesome video, I learned a few things about acronyms (most don't work) 😁
Thanks for going through the tech articles.
WIKI is, Porsche were using plated cylinders developed in conjunction with Mahle by 1970, NSU never got it to work right in Wankel although it was used on moped cylinders, the two speed NSU 'Quickly' in early 70's (it never seemed to wear out even when badly abused by 16 yr old's (in Britain)
Kawasaki started using high amperage 'exploded' particles in two stroke cylinders in (I think?) 80's, pretty sure it was only European MX bikes that used Nikasil in the 70's?.
Triumph have been using some sort of hard coated aluminium liners in various motors for a long time, (I haven't had one in pieces but I would like to)
Re-plating cylinders is quite common it just hasn't been applied to multi cylinder engines before so I guess there are companies that have made the investment.?
Older blocks with a modern aluminium spray coated liner should be relatively easy to convert?
There could even be a performance upgrade with better heat transfer, cylinder liners are usually 2mm~4mm thick when fully supported (closed deck) butopen deck 'wet liners' will need substantial extra thickness at top
Labour charges have pretty much killed off the chance of re-building 'ordinary' cars, but, a DIY'er who can save $5,000 or more in labour charges can probably do a better job than a 'quik-fit' shop that has to make a profit.
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I think the 'instructions' for cooking don't add anything like enough water to oats so I use about 1/3 extra.
Last several years I've added handful of raisins and a splash of maple syrup, don't need any milk.
As others have mentioned, reminds me of my childhood as 'we' boiled up large saucepan of it every morning, as we got older myself brothers or sister would make it
I do remember reading, some time in 1990's, oats have 'soluble fibre' that binds to fat, it was taken from article in a medical journal.
I rarely feel 'full' with it though, even with rather large portions (almost quart when cooked).
Much prefer oats to anything with corn or wheat.
Watching this, 12 minutes, made me pause video so I can go make some, I'll watch rest of video and have my oats 😁
Sour yogurt is awful stuff, my mother used to try and make us eat it in late 60's/early 70's.
It put me off even trying again it for about 30 years.
I guess oatmeal porridge is way more common as it's around a quarter the price of Chia (15th Nov 2023)
I don't like avocado or guacamole
Unable to download the free oat stats book?
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@gibroon4418 It's actually very simple.
An ICE car can be repaired, kept on the road and reduce emissions simply by the fact the 'pollution' caused by it's manufacture has already been accounted for and the total emissions from burning fuel is way less than a single round trip flight by a transport or passenger aircraft of about 4,000miles.
The total life of an EV is less than 20 years (not including write offs from accidents and spontaneous fire)
As battery life is less than optimal and replacement unrealistic on a 15-20 yr old vehicle, new ones have to be created constantly so people can 'get around'
A single mining diesel electric dump truck with a 50 to 70 litre engine burns around 800 to 1200 gallons of fuel per 12 hr shift (3,100-4,600 litres).
I guess this is factored into the total carbon emission for EV's and part of the reason they are so high compared to ICE?
If you decide not to take a holiday or vacation and only travel on foot or by wooden sailboat made by hand without any power tools cut with sharpened stones, give up cell phone and satellite 'anything' you''ll be doing your bit to save the planet (oh, you'll also have to live in a wood house as bricks, cement and roofing compounds also take a large amout of energy to produce, far more than a 50 yr old ICE car will produce)
There is also the issue of tyre wear, study in Britain showed EV's, being a lot heavier cause carbon particles around 3 micron which get into water supply, food and ultimately you. (similar happens withICE vehicles but majority are lower powered, lighter with smaller tyres driven lass aggressively so tyre wear is generally lower, even on 18 wheelers or 'artics')
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OK, so why do F1 pistons cost £50,000?
You didn't explain that at all.
Harley Davidson pistons are doing between 80~85mph about half inch after TDC. and that motor is not renown for high rpm (usually limited to about 6,000 before big ends fail due to centrifugal loads although as much as 9,000rpm on very select parts hand built motors)
1000cc motorcycles have been revving over 12,000rpm for last 20years or so, some much much higher (Yamaha with 12 months unlimited guarantee revved to 17,000 rpm, if you do a search on You Tube you'll see tach at about 21,000 rpm after a missed shift). Even if tach is '10% off' it's still crazy high rpm, Electronic tachs are usually reasonably accurate
'Custom' pistons can be made for around £125 each. X-ray adds a pretty fair chunk of change on top of that but not £49,000+.
If you were explaining monocrystaline pistons which are 'grown' and take around 3 months to make it kinda explains the cost but any forged or billet piston - your way off base or someone is getting royally screwed over (worse than military contractors" oh, government, add another couple of zero's before the decimal" £5.00 becomes £500.00 )
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This is a better 'review' than most.
I guess you could write the next 'Zen and The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance' 🤔
Personally, I've worked and ridden motorcycles for about 55 years, multi line dealers, trade school teacher, etc with relatively brief periods as a precision machinist and 'Plant Fitter (Grade B)' working on construction equipment (great title, good wages, nasty job 90% of the time)
Just want to point out, Grade 'B' is higher level than grade 'A' (British classification, doesn't make sense to me?)
The main reason for 'break in' is so you can get used to the new bike, even if your experienced there will be quirks you may not notice with a new bike.
I don't know about today's Honda's but back in the 70's they would take them to 'red line' through the gears on rolling road straight after assembly so it really isn't a problem exceeding handbook specifications.
With modern manufacturing and better oils, break in isn't really needed although transmission gears may wear in and get 'polished' as it's been found that grinding and honing gear teeth isn't really necessary on production engines where a little extra noise and roughness is expected (I think Kawasaki started it around 1990 on 'cruisers', some transmission gears were ROUGH and caused gear whine until they had done around 6,000 miles)
The motor has the characteristic balance shaft 'knock' and cam chain rattle at idle, both should be sorted out during first service, (if the dealership knows how, not all mechanics read service manuals unless they are looking for torque spec or wiring diagrams)
For off road, smaller and lighter is always better in my opinion (and having raced off road Enduro and some Motocross I feel qualified to comment)
The dual sport 'adventure bikes' are really too heavy for anyone other than an off road expert and despite what the marketing says they are really designed as street bikes and gravel road bikes
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Sounds about right in my experience.
Biggest issue I found was used vehicles or trade in.
Sales people often promise too much or give too much to make a sale and get a commission.
What really changed things was booking repairs to individual sales people, suddenly, workshop wasn't losing money but sales were.
General manager decided workshops were not billing enough time, generally 7~7.5 hrs in 9 hr day.
I made everyone work to shop hours, knock off at 6:00pm.
I've always hated flat rate for the exact reasons you outline. cutting corners, bad work, etc.
Had a 'Kiss A**' almost kill me by putting a transmission together wrong (it locked solid )
Spent several years swapping between two shops.
About every two years or so, shop got good reputation so managers thought I wasn't needed, by which time the other shop reputation had dropped so I was needed. It got to stage where majority of customers would follow me (until I moved to shop 30miles away)
Got completely out of it for 5 years, went back to run a workshop but nothing had actually changed plus owner only wanted workshop to show a profit as he was selling up. I got out as soon as I could, total of six weeks. Never went back (moved from Britain to USA, things are even worse here)I did spend 12 years as an instructor though, the good ones are not treated any better than at a shop.
An 'education manager' (Kiss A**) actually said to me, in front of witnesses, 'we don't fire people, we just make life so difficult they quit'
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Hi Lewis,
Really like your video's, seems Orwell's prediction is going to be at least 50 years late but big business is ruining America (and the world) for 'ordinary people'
I'm a motorcycle tech but there are several companies I refuse to support because of their business practices (Google, APPLE, SONY, Canon, Microsoft et.al)
Apple is one of the worst, I find it difficult to believe people are so stupid to buy into the hype.
Does APPLE make good stuff?
Sure it does, but, it's designed to be obsolete before it even reaches the market.
Harley Davidson was studied worldwide for it's marketing, pretty much declaring people 'un-American' if they bought any imports even when the company made so little of their own parts they could only state 'Assembled in USA'( only needs to be 52% to state 'Made in USA')
.For automotive there are 'Lemon Laws' but they rarely if ever apply to motorcycles.
Things will probably get much worse now nVidia has bought ARM and Apple is designing it's own ARM chips to keep everything 'in house'.
Steve Jobs was an absolute ** and it doesn't look like any of the APPLE management in place today is any better.
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@Drunken_Hamster Nope, I was teaching Suzuki F.A.S.T. but spent a lot of spare time over at HD which is why I know about it.
I forget if it was 2007 or maybe 08?
I attended several HD lectures over 2 years, but, being Suzuki, couldn't, take the HD factory tests
It was when fuel injection was available but most bikes still had carbs (maybe FI was optional?, I forget)
I probably have paperwork on it somewhere safe, still fixing things from Hurricane Ian in Sept 2022 with a lot still in boxe.,
MMI wanted instructors to get as much knowledge as possible, majority of import instructors had less than zero interest in Harley but I always want to know more. Had a few good friends there who really liked discussing differences between USA market and European/British market. (plus a few A-holes who wouldn't speak to me 🤣 😇)
One Cajun instructor asked me to bring a translator (he was a right dick who got canned for telling a female student she should be 'at kitchen sink, barefoot and pregnant')
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I don't think anyone is surprised about the murder of United Healthcare CEO, pretty sure it will eventually come out that a legitimate claim was denied and parent, wife or child died as a result? (unless there is a major cover up or payoff through insurance industry?)
You can bet the guy will never get to court as it would expose too much
If it wasn't for the downright greed of these people who pretend to care, insurance would be (and should be) much cheaper.
In 2015 I passed insurance licence exam and obtained a 2-15 insurance licence, believed the BS about helping people (I know, should have been more cynical)
When I passed, only 17% of applicants got a passing grade, on a multiple choice quiz !
It shows just how low the standard of applicants is
Before starting, I was 'promised' 90 day training.
As I refused to sign up family and friends (heck, I wouldn't sell to people I knew before I knew what I really was doing)
I was escorted off the premises after 35 days, 'trainer' had been a used car salesman less than 3 months earlier.
It is a disgusting 'industry', pretty much legalised extortion with people at the top giving themselves pay rises and bonuses for being evil in many cases.
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I'm a motorcycle mechanic and low tension rings have been around since the 1980's.
If you want to know if your burning oil, just go out at night and have someone drive up behind you with low beam on, (engine has to be fully warmed up or all you can see will be condensation) at a stop, light blue smoke is visible even with catalytic converters
The problem isn't oil jets and low tension rings but people wanting low maintenance and dealerships relying on a captive market. (one thing that has ALWAYS pissed me off is being overcharged for 'shop supplies') If I'm paying $35.00 or more I want the 'leftovers', not have workshop use a tiny bit of whatever and over charge next person for what I just paid for) Selling the same can of aerosol or whatever multiple times is just dishonest
The other things are dealer 'up-selling and 'flat rate'.
I ran motorcycle workshops for years, we made a profit without a bunch of 'hidden costs' and pissed off customers.
I have always found 'flat rate' to be a bad thing as corners get cut to make more money and mistakes get made
Any product used by a manufacturer, should be available for general sale
Toyota and Yamaha have a very long partnership, it's almost always Dealer/shop General Manager who refuses to sell products (same business model as Apple - you HAVE to come to us, except that was challenged and changed in 2012)
Workshops I ran paid technicians a fair rate to do the job right, salespeople went through handbooks to explain to customers about servicing. Out of unknown thousands, only two people ever asked 'do I need to know this shit?' It was so unusual I remember it well.
Even today, people are still carrying out 1920's~30's 'warm up and gentle driving' plus a load of other fallacies that haven't applied for more than 50 years.
You don't have to 'drive it like you stole it' but a lot of things still being done cause more harm than good (excessive idling with AC on will overload various parts - eventually)
It's no wonder vast majority of customers refer to 'stealerships'
Oh, Magnusson Moss act still applies to auto's even though dealers hate it
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What a great test, bravo for the rechargeable's, six years is a very long time for any non research unit to be carrying out tests.(it's a long time for any tests by anyone, I would give you at least eleven out of ten.
With Trump taxation, all are going to be more expensive next year so stock up for Christmas if you have kids
I've always found SANYO to be very reliable and last several years, even the old style in 1990 (I think they are the Eneloop?)
I have some eneloops that are at least 12 years old, I got them when I bought my first Go-Pro.
Capacity is reduced but they still take a charge and work which is quite surprising.
Personally, I hate Duracell and Energizer batteries.
Neither has particularly good sealing in items that use very little current where batteries stay in place a year or more.
I've had some quite expensive multi meters destroyed due to expensive batteries leaking.
Energizer sent me a 10% off coupon when I complained, I never used it as I don't want any more leaky batteries.
Now, I almost always use cheapest I can get, I would rather change a dead battery than buy a new meter so for me, batteries that don't leak are the most important.
Assembled in USA is a marketing gimmick, batteries are probably made elsewhere and painted in USA (or some such nonsense)
It means less than 49% USA 'parts' but I forget minimum before it isn't allowed to say assembled.
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I was a motorcycle instructor for almost 12 years, feel I'm quite lucky to be retired now and only work on my own vehicles.
I have some experience with UTI, it was quite a good training program and actually worth the money until around 2005 when they started getting incredibly greedy. In 2000 annual cost was around $12,000 and you learned a lot.
By 2006, high schools were targeted and the emphasis was to pass as many as possible, managers did not follow school rules and forced instructors to pass students even when students admitted to cheating on tests and projects. (I refused on several occaisions, probably main reason I got canned?)
Scouts were not allowed to be paid by how many people they enrolled or commission but talking to some of them, it's exactly how they got paid. (basic pay plus 'incentives' that got paid out in quarterly intervals if students stayed in school)
Total cost in 2011 was around $46,000, students were often told they could make more if they took every course available plus extra manufacturer specific courses, majority took at least one 'import' plus Harley Davidson
Placement in a job meant someone actually turned up for work after graduation, even if they were walked off the premesis a few minutes later it counted as student services finding a job placement so the advertising was 'true'.
I was laid off mid 2011, probably illegal as any other industrialised country only allows lay off when job no longer exists or department is closing
In my case, they moved someone almost incapable of doing the job but 15~16 years younger into the position. (just reading a lesson plan isn't much use if you can't actually explain how and why things need to be done in a certain order)
I tried fighting it but was told I would forfeit redundancy if I didn't take it AND sign a non disclosure (about six months after lay off)
Pretty sure a non-disclosure would now be invalid?
I'm not making any untrue statements.
Flat rate is biggest con ever, it does lead to cutting corners plus 'up-selling' unnecessary work in many cases or just plain ripping people off.
I'm not 100% sure but believe Kawasaki was the only manufacturer who made suggestions for bikes over 3 years old with a flat rate sliding scale (I think Harley Davidson may do something similar )
The truth is, less than 5% of graduates actually stay in the industry more than 5 years after graduation, many never even start in a shop (2010 figures).
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