Sometimes you need to do what management wants even though most of them don't even know the first thing about servicing a piece of machinery.
Back in the late 1970's we were having a new Heavy Field Dynamometer being built in Elk Grove Village MI. Before they ever started the build on this vehicle management circulated a letter through the shop wanting ideas for things we thought should be on the vehicle. We wanted radial tires and have the column on the drawbar to be chrome plated. I made 3 or 4 trips up there and none of this was done. When the vehicle was completed we ran an acceptance test on the vehicle at our testing facility and the differentials overheated. Called the contractor and they called the differential manufacturer. They said to lower the oil level in each gear box. We did this several times and it never helped.
One evening as I was walking by the tires on the vehicle they were so hot you couldn't hold your hand on them. I called the local Goodyear dealer in Baltimore to ask him about this heat and he wanted know how fast we were operating the vehicle. I told him in the 45 to 50mph range. He said those Goodyear tires are rated to a max speed of 25mph. I invited him to come up and tell our management that. We ended up buying Michelin tires from this dealer. Guess what happened next, the overheating differentials problem was solved. Had to get the column chrome plated too. We use to have a saying "its all in 8 hours". I put a suggestion in once that was going to save the government a lot of money. They told me that was my job and they had fliers hanging everywhere wanting everyone to make suggestions and they would pay money if they're used. I figured it was time to retire and I called the man that had reviewed my suggestion and told him he didn't even know what I was suggesting not even a clue. He couldn't pour pee out of a boot. Hal
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