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Re: The German engine situation
Posted by Elliott on Thu Jul 25, 2002 06:28:31 AM
In reply top Re: The German engine situation posted by Cees on Thu Jul 25, 2002 05:03:49 AM
Not sure about the oil tanks - although if I was in their shoes I would have only been too happy to provide a bit of my own etching solution.....
: Elliott
:
: I remember reading a story about a factory building DB605'
: s which was relocated to a salt mine. The salt and humidit
: iy didn't help the manufacturing process very much, causin
: g corrosion to the precision tools, especially with the ve
: ry close tolerances needed. Also the supply of high grade
: materials such as copper, nickel etc was getting less and
: less so they had to use substitute materials which did not
: help reliability either.
:
: Apart from that there were also cases of sabotage by the w
: orkers who mostly were forced labourers. I remember a stor
: y about how these workers used to p*ss into the oiltanks d
: uring manufacture which weakened the welds causing leakage
: . If this story is based on actual facts I don't know.
:
: Cees