> Me too - Jay Leno in his Popular Mechanics column a few issues ago had an
> article about a steam engine he bought. He said they were all made by 
> hand,
> and not one (!) had identical measurements! It was the -same- manufacturer
> and they built the same model, but apparently they were so roughly made
> that parts didn't fit across same instances of the same model. But they
> worked just fine. And were lubricated with pig-fat!

Yeh, that was how stuff used to be made before Henry Ford realised that you 
just need to make each component accurate *enough*, then each part can be 
used on any car and will fit without manually needing to tune it.

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