We bought a couple of engine stands for handling the motors on our ferry boat. They were ordered from what we thought was a reputable Web site, Yamaha Motors dot com. The biggest selling outboard motors in the entire world are made by Yamaha. The two kits arrived, and above are the instructions for assembly. The funny thing about Chinese instructions, besides the instructions themselves, is that the Chinese don’t have any qualms about making a mish-mosh of their English language skills. During the 2008 Olympic Games, their atrocious billboard English was met with a shrug, as if making the goofiest errors didn’t matter at all.
We were disappointed when we actually put the motors on the stands and watched as they quickly started to distort under the weight. One of the bolts had the threads cut so shallowly the nut popped off and the stand nearly collapsed before we stopped the electric hoist we were using from putting the full weight on it.
I especially liked instruction number 6. I didn’t have to do that one. Oh, and the tool called hammer was used only once when all the holes didn’t line up and the soft bolts got ruined by application of hammer forcefully. On the bottle tube or wine nut, I think.
Brings back memories of the term, “Chinese junk.”
2 comments:
Ha, did they provide a phone number by which you could contact said contact tube?
Nope.
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