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  1. 03-10-2012, 01:48 PM #1
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    Before there was Kaizen. . .

    Long before the Worlds Most Profitable Car Company achieved that title, they did things like this:


    The stalk switches cannot come out without loosening the clamp. Looking at this I feared the whole column had to come out- fortunately with the cheese- head screw out the clamp rotates around the steering tube and the plugs slide through.

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  2. 03-10-2012, 04:33 PM #2
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    That's okay John, 30 years from now nobody will be restoring those cars either. All the cheap plastic connectors will have long since distintigrated.
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  3. 03-10-2012, 06:29 PM #3
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    There is design for manufacturability and then there is design for maintainability.
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