Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation

Greg Bunting wrote:
Thank you both. Didn't know what it was, but find it was what made me successful. Find the failure mode.

I built radio systems. Big tall towers hold the antennas. Along comes lightning.
Learned to deal with it. When I retired, they said, ' that's fine, we don't get hit with lightning anymore'. I just smiled!

As I said a week or so back - serendipity.

Please pay no attention to the puppy following you around.

What you did is called "tradecraft", the bag of knowhow, tricks, and things that just made things work.

Real hard time getting people to see that the video they saw on ABC UCANDOIT.com just isn't real life.

Nothing worse than to talk to people who saw a few of those videos, then strut around thinking they can wrench, or do a craft that takes practice.

I have seen the video market blow up so many people --- showing people how easy it is to change out parts, and of course, the engine / etc. they are working on looks like it is newer and cleaner than when it left the factory!

Then the fast forwards because they don't want to show the who job (to fit in the TV time slot with commercials or the attention span of the watcher).

In real life, cars are dirty, rusted, bolts break, strip, cabling is corroded... and a good tech takes more time fixing these issues than the actual job sometimes.

You have done the job... and you know how lighting rod connection and placement, and grounding seemingly simple.. is not.

LOL