Re: Manual from Hell


"Andrew VK3BFA" <ablight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
in message
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Steve Mulhollan wrote:
I recently bought a mill/drill from Grizzly.
This is a page from the
manual for the power feed. The only thing that
keeps this from being
hilarious is that Grizzly finds this insanity
acceptable without
editing.


http://www.metalworking.com/DropBox/warnning.jpg

Steve

Mm, bit of xenophobia here. Yes, to a native
English speaker, its
hilarious , but can you understand it? - as
someone who has a huge
collection of manuals for my electronic test
equipment and other stuff,
the ONLY decent, well written ones are for
equipment costing (new)
thousands of dollars....you get what you pay
for. And REAL service
manuals cost REAL money. The rest are VERY
basic - grammatically
correct, but containing no more useful
information than the posted
example. They spent their money on setting up
the factory and making
the equipment, not on getting a university
graduate with an engineering
AND technical writing background........its very
rare to find such a
person at ANY price.....

Andrew VK3BFA.


Ah hell Andrew, you're being a bit too kind! When
I got my lathe with the laughable manual,I emailed
them and offered to give a professional
translation from the Chinglish manual. ( I had
spent some time doing for myself). The only reply
was to ask me where I had bought it. I replied
with Hare & Forbes details and that was as far as
it got. I would have done it for peanuts.

Tom Miller VK3PHF



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