You obviously never had to work on something someone else designed. That, in my opinion is the type of engineering arrogance that leads to things like pulling an entire engine/tranny to replace a steering rack. All engineers should consider ease of replacement, otherwise it's not a good design. Failures happen whether it's bad design or assembly problems or just bad components.




Fired up now?
naah, you took my statement a bit further than it was ment, my bad.

instead of
"That is bad design, a design should never consider ease of replacement"
I should have said (as I wanted to)
"That is bad design, a design should never be based on ease of replacement"

I have spent enough time in field service to appreciate that lifting a 5 ton machine to get access to replace a bearing is not good design.

Anyhow, the other, parallel, aspect, is that if something is difficult to service it is, typically, difficult to build = cost.

To repair my current stuff, all you need is a key and a screwdrive and one elbow on each arm (do you understand what I mean)

Erik

PS if anyone want to discuss board level vs component level field service, start a thread in the chat forum.