Back to metallurgists again.... I'm not having a go at them (?) as a profession - but in my dealings with them, most recently during a xxxx-xxx trial you always got the impression that if something was built DOWN to a price as opposed to built UP to a spec for maintainability, then they'd be responsible. Just my take on things.

I remember saying about a piece of fabricated crap that it was beyond any sort of repair. In fact beyond any salvation. One of them just commented that '...... Peter, it's got an xx life. Bin it and get another at that price' But in the meantime the XXXX-XXX was out of action awaiting another feed shute. Metallurgists