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<blockquote data-quote="b'knighted" data-source="post: 12378" data-attributes="member: 59"><p><strong>In defence of bodging</strong></p><p></p><p>Bodgers were skilled craftsmen who made chair legs, rails and splats using improvised pole lathes, so a good bodge should not be scorned. (<a href="http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/guide-to-bodging.asp" target="_blank">http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/guide-to-bodging.asp</a>) </p><p>Isn’t it a lovely language – “a three inch nail had been skelped into the rocker tunnel” Skelped is a new word to me but it is easy to understand.</p><p></p><p>Surely any improvised repair (like ring pulls to space a cover) that gets you home is totally justifiable. I have been told stories of old time repairs like stuffing a flat tyre with grass to get home after a puncture or improvising a bit of fence wire to hold a chain together when a spring link has been lost. I once lent the Mole Grips (like Vice Grips) from my Comet tool kit, to a RAC/ACU pupil who had the gear lever drop off his Ariel Arrow the day before his driving test. He passed and went on to become a motorcycling journalist!</p><p>Surely a bodge should only be criticised if it damages parts or prevents rectification. Otherwise it should be praised as part of the conservation process or a continuation of the wartime spirit of “Make Do and Mend” which is surely in keeping with the age of our machines.</p><p></p><p>The most horrific bodge I have ever seen committed on a Vincent involved hacking off the gearbox to convert a twin into a pre-unit with a different make of gearbox.</p><p></p><p>Cheers</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="b'knighted, post: 12378, member: 59"] [b]In defence of bodging[/b] Bodgers were skilled craftsmen who made chair legs, rails and splats using improvised pole lathes, so a good bodge should not be scorned. ([url]http://www.ukcraftfairs.com/guide-to-bodging.asp[/url]) Isn’t it a lovely language – “a three inch nail had been skelped into the rocker tunnel” Skelped is a new word to me but it is easy to understand. Surely any improvised repair (like ring pulls to space a cover) that gets you home is totally justifiable. I have been told stories of old time repairs like stuffing a flat tyre with grass to get home after a puncture or improvising a bit of fence wire to hold a chain together when a spring link has been lost. I once lent the Mole Grips (like Vice Grips) from my Comet tool kit, to a RAC/ACU pupil who had the gear lever drop off his Ariel Arrow the day before his driving test. He passed and went on to become a motorcycling journalist! Surely a bodge should only be criticised if it damages parts or prevents rectification. Otherwise it should be praised as part of the conservation process or a continuation of the wartime spirit of “Make Do and Mend” which is surely in keeping with the age of our machines. The most horrific bodge I have ever seen committed on a Vincent involved hacking off the gearbox to convert a twin into a pre-unit with a different make of gearbox. Cheers [/QUOTE]
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