engine log sheet

Hi Peter, Would you at all.
-- Dave Croft Warrington England

Cheers Dave. Thanks very much. Best regards Pete.

I like to write up my engines in some detail & I always get people stopping to read wot I rit. Quite often, I include a photo to illustrate it, easily done these days with the Internet, digital cameras and MS Word! I did one a few weeks ago about an early autopilot I exhibit & within minutes had a good picture of a Gloster Meteor to put in. Displaying the sign brought a comment from a passer by that he used to test the things and now I have a bit of antique test equipment to go with the autopilot ;o))
I print out the result on 100gsm card and fix to a five foot high stick with drawing pins. This I bang into the ground near the rope line - so much better than a soggy box lid done in felt tip or one of those SEM log sheets that give such minimal information.
Just my opinion, you understand, but I think the lamentable standard of signage at SE events is a true indication of the fact that we only pretend to be there for the public, it's really other engine owners/displayers that we go to see and be seen by - and they already know a Wolseley WD8 when they see one!
regards,
Kim Siddorn.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!

kim, at the very real risk of seeming dim, jus what does post hoc propter thingy mean exactly..... lol....... i could look it up but im sure your reply will be far more entertaining, even if at my own expense... chris. :-)

"After it, therefore because of it" - which, of course, is rarely wholly true and almost always should be qualified and placed in context. A road is wet after rain, but the surface of a lake is not wetted by the same precipitation.
It is a tongue-in-cheek lateral observation on pedantry, something I stray towards myself only too often!
regards,
Kim Siddorn.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc!

"Kim Siddorn" wrote
I like the motto on the side of Lamport Hall (fortunately also in English) "Ostendo non Ostento" - I Show, I sham not. Says a lot about the arrogance of the British gentry.

thanks kim, clears up that little conundrum of mine then .................... i think..lol chris

I dunno - it seems to be a constant, even outside stationary engines.
If you go and see model engineering exhibits, you'll quite often see metalwork that took man-years displayed on a poorly varnished piece of mahogany plywood with a dymo label!
BugBear