[P7_TOM]

Dunno Thorny; not ‘plugged in’ to engineering training – but I wonder if the ‘accelerated’ sections were something like “This is a spanner, spanners come in several flavours, there’s your open ended, flat version, the ring spanner with it’s cute little goose neck to get into awkward spaces, then there’s you ‘socket’ spanner with all these little attachments to make life easy and speedy”.  These are very different tools to the ‘screwdriver’ etc.

I’d reckon most blokes who wanted to be a LAME would probably have a half decent, basic tool kit before they signed on – and – probably knew exactly how to use ‘em, having fixed motor bikes, out board engines, the lawnmower, Mum's washing machine and ‘the Commodore’ over the weekend.

I could understand the angst if say the ‘lock wiring’ element had been skipped through; or the torqueing of cylinder head bolts had been omitted; but CASA have been very coy in releasing ‘the audit’ results. I, for one would like to know what all the fuss is about – perhaps it’s the OH&S part, which warns you of a wet floor and leaves stupid little cones about the place to fall over – rather than just clean up the spill - who knows. But, for this much fuss the audit should be made public; just so we can see why.

My toolkit weighs in at just under 400 Kg all up, excluding machinery, that would fill in a happy day for the lads and lasses at ‘tech’, some of it is older than 150 years in service. Wonder what they’d make of some of the wheel wrights tools or; carriage makers gear; or the old school blacksmiths bits and bobs; great fun, useful and still functioning.