We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Stuart Noble
saying something like:

When you hear the term "settle" or "settle down" from plumbers,
builders, car mechanics etc, take it to mean the job's not right but
they've run out of time and want paying anyway.

********. There are plenty of instances where materials need to bed in
and be re-adjusted as necessary.
--

Dave