How Manchester s very own Ever Given sparked £14m chaos on the Ship Canal
As global trade recovers from the crisis in the Suez Canal - this is the story of an eerily similar incident a little closer to home
13:07, 5 APR 2021
Updated
The 12,000-ton Manchester Courage, with one of the badly-damaged gates on its right (Image: PA)
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The quality of work from a machine is dependant on the skill of the operator.
I know of a mini lathe ruined by a careless, to be charitable, operator. Repairs are likely to cost almost as much as a new machine!
Yet there are lots of folk doing fantastic work on them. (Most mini lathes come from a very few factories in China ) So the difference, in many cases is not the machine but the operator.
A skilled operator can produce good work on a mediocre / worn machine. Think of the work that was made on machines that lacked graduated dials, and driven by treadles or overhead lineshafting!