On 2011-01-01 14:24:11 -0800, Eric Stevens said:

On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 23:44:05 +0000, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Eric Stevens
saying something like:

The British made Merlins relied
on considerable 'British Craftsmanship' to enable the less precisely
made British Merlins to be assembled.

Exactly.
All the casting faces were 'hand finished' - what a load of cock that
was, when a decent machining job avoided it entirely.

But the British-made Merlins were considerably more oil-tight than
their trans-Atlantic brethren. I don't know how much that was due to
quality of machined surfaces vs joint sealant technology.



Eric Stevens

Where did that piece of information come from?
Sounds apocryphal to me.

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Regards,

Savageduck