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Old 12-03-2018, 09:08 AM   #4
BRENT in 10-uh-C
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Default Re: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Originally Posted by updraught View Post
I haven't read it either. Just flipped thru it at the book shop.

However, as a young joey, I was told, by a professor of engineering that what you pay for in a Rolls Royce is the close tolerances.




Well to a certain extent, that is true however you can get close tolerances on a Lexus too. It is more about not selling enough widgets to justify mass manufacturing which then means they must be hand-built. The biggest issue with producing anything is that labor costs are too expensive these days.
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