I'm having such a good time...

Bill Douglas · 07-04-2002, 01:23 PM

I got home from work last night and found a large box on the door step from Pelican Parts.

It had all the usual stuff; oil filters, air cleaners etc. But I got the 101 Projects book and the Bentley SC book. Wow talk about in my element!

Wayne I love your book and I find it very easy to understand. Plus the Bentley book is good, but it is more "now remove gearbox" style which assumes the reader knows what they are doing.

For the last seven years I've wanted to do my own valve clearances. This year I will (I used to do them on my old Triumph 650).

Bill '79SC

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

Cool! I assume that people know NOTHING!

The engine book is written the same exact way...

Speaking of the engine book, the frustrating part is that the book is entirely done. All of the text is written, all of the photos (except for a few) are taken. It's just taking so dang long to organize and finalize everything into one neat package.

Very frustrating...

-Wayne

Bill Douglas · 07-04-2002, 03:38 PM

I can imagine. The layout of each page is very nice. Or should I say very now with good comosition of the box sizes and flow. Hang in there

PS. They must have got a new captain on the banana boat. I got the box delivered in about half the time it usually takes for surface delivery to NZ.

Wayne 962 · Wayne 962's Garage

International shipping is sooo unpredictable. After Sept 11th, it took months to get anywhere.

"Or should I say very now with good comosition of the box sizes and flow."

You'll have to translate that sentence from Kiwi-talk?

-Wayne

Bill Douglas · 07-04-2002, 04:15 PM

Sorry Wayne, I'm just learning to speak American.

I did a graphics course and it was all about layout on the page and the size of the text boxes, as a percentage of the rest of the page. And it was about flow meaning it's easy to run your eye down a page. Supposedly the eye does a quick scan of a page in a Z manner. Going from top left to the right, towards the bottom left and back to the right. This is the reason why you pick up some magazines and want to read (buy) them, another magazines where you think "I'm not reading rubbish" for no apparent reason. And your book came out well