"risk" doesn't mean what you think it means, as far as "rants" go......
a listeroid ain't a marlin harpooning you through the heart, marlins don't have estates to get sued by no win no fee ambulance chasers and marlins don't have asses to throw in pound me in the ass penitentiary.
1/ FACT, no listeroid that I am aware of has any kind of quality control, as will be defined in a court of law come culpable negligence lawsuit or manslaughter through neglect cases.
2/ FACT, all data available says that things like flywheel gib keys are routinely hammered in blindly.
3/ FACT, we have had people posting pictures of at least one broken flywheel, so you can't claim ignorance.
4/ FACT, we have had people (such as me) "ranting" about the dangers of fucking with shit you clearly don't understand, so you can't claim ignorance.
5/ FACT, every expert witness engineer a court can find will attest under oath that it is common knowledge that hammering on cast iron is a no-no, that flexible mounts on stationary engines are unheard of in industry, that balancing flywheels without first KNOWING FOR A FACT what reciprocating, rotating and eccentric forces need to be compensated for, AND AT WHAT RACK OPENINGS, to the bloody GRAM, is absofuckinglutely verboten.
6/ FACT, everyone knows every listeroid is different, even before fuckers start modifying them willy nilly and working on them in ways that make you cringe, so good luck with claiming that freds ashwamegh constitutes a valid basis for your base assumptions about your jkson.
7/ FACT, everyone knows we have had people from India telling the straight shit about how these engines are made, assembled and sold, and said people going on record as saying the conscience about this forced them into a change in career.
8/ FACT, everyone knows these engines have dubious legal standing with regard to state regulations and standards of various sorts, and everyone knows there is no ISO, BS or other type approval on anything, nor is there any warranty.
9/ FACT, everyone knows when the shit hits the fan worst case scenario is 150 pounds of cast iron flywheel taking off at 60 mph and keeping going for 2 miles, unless something gets in the way, like the station wagon full of kids on the school run, or the tanker carrying 30,000 litres of gasoline (know what a BLEVE is?)
or the aftermath of a domestic propane tank
10/ FACT, as long as you have a hole in your ass you will NEVER convince the court you excercised due diligence (this post will be yet another nail in your coffin) and the prosecution legal team will have a slam dunk every time, and use your deliberate wilful negligence to boost the compensation award or penitentiary time up into the stratosphere.
11/ FACT, your bullshit follows you around, EVERYTHING you publish on the net, thanks to google and archive.org and others, remains there for posterity, and sometime in the future people connect dots and realise *you* are the same John Smith as the guy who posted about listeroids back in 2006, kiss your job goodbye..... NEVER EVER EVER say anything online either in email or on a forum or web page that you aren't prepared to bet your job and career on, this is a trend that is getting ever more prevalent as databases integrate, mark my words, in ten years what you post will affect whether you can get or afford insurance too, and a whole host of other shit.
12/ FACT, ignorance never has been and never will be an acceptable defence in law.
13/ FACT, your fuckup WILL be used by someone with an agenda to bring in a new law or regulation and generally make life worse for everyone who wasn't a lunatic.
14/ FACT, if your number comes up, even if your conscience and the collective conscience of all those who didn't tell you that you were a bloody fool aren't involved, massive lawsuits and jail time make life changing and significant alterations for decades hence to those whose only crime was to be related to you.
and finally esther..........
15/ FACT, there is NO FUCKING DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER between the relationship between you guy incognito and the numbnuts that screwed the relief valve in, and between those of us who do understand this shit and you, except, you can't see it cos you are on the inside, matey who screwed the relief valve in wasn't in his opinion doing anything criminally negligent and manslaughter dangerous, he was acting under the genuine belief that his actions were safe enough and he was well enough informed to make that call on whether or not his actions were safe enough.
That thing I said about having learned the smell of the chain of events that lead to an "accident", you lot reek of it, and don't get me wrong, I have reeked of it when I have fucked around outside my field of knowledge and competence, but it is a fundamental principle of this that those doing the lunatic thing have no sense of smell with regard to the thing they are doing.
These are, without doubt, my final words on the subject. This place is literally starting to get too dangerous to be associated with.
