>
>The maintenance workshop is a bench vise attached to one end of the
>counter in the galley, with a hammer and a bastard file hanging from
>chains on the wall next to it. To be fair, this is pretty much all
>you need to work on the parts of a Belv engine. Or 2,000 of them.
>

Five-year veterans of Transbelvian automobile construction believe that given a bench vise, a bench to mount it on, a hammer, and a bastard file, they could build a Belv in a cave, with a box of scraps.

Ten-year veterans are confident that they could make their own cave with the tools provided, use the quarried stone to build a bench, haul the box of scraps inside, and build a Belv.

Twenty-year veterans insist that a hammer and a bastard file are all one needs to build a Belv, assuming that one is not under any pressure to produce a Belv this decade.

Peter Eng
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All of them are right; experience counts for a lot.