![]() Which, as we all know, is always a Really Bad Sign(TM). Both times resulted in catastrophe of truly epic proportions, the kind of thing where other contractors brought in to fix the issues were calling their friends and going “Man, I ain’t nevah seen dis befoah… Y’all gotta come down and take a look at this BS…”. I know of two cases in residential construction where people that knew what they were doing in one specialized area of that field completely screwed up when they moved into trying to do other things, or becoming a general contractor vice being a trade or specialty contractor. If you go back and look at a lot of case histories of failure in firearms manufacture, what you’re going to find will often be cases like this, where someone who literally knows nothing about building guns comes in and thinks that because they know how to build something else, making guns will be a walk in the park. You don’t pick that stuff up as an outsider coming in laterally–At least, not easily. ![]() Followed promptly by utter and catastrophic failure at “B” and “C”.Įvery industry and trade has its tribal knowledge, those things that the actual practitioners have built up over decades (sometimes actual centuries…) of experience. You would be shocked at the hubris you’ll run into with a lot of people in any sort of manufacturing industry that think “Well, I know how to do “A”, how hard could “B” or “C” be…?”.
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