Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:

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

No several unofficial servicing tricks have been used in the airline
industry..
like using forklifts to re attach engines to jets.
Just who exactly agrees that these unofficial tricks are OK to do?

What makes you equate stupidity (ie, your example) with knowing what to
do correctly, with no risk?

In what was was using a forklift to lift engines to wing pylons
"stupidity"? It was fairly common practice at the time and not obviously
"wrong" other than it not being a method recommended by the
manufacturer. Which sums up the "tricks" that you and others are talking
about, none of them are official techniques and none of you know for
sure if the manufacturer chose not to recommend those "tricks" for the
same reason that usign a forklift to position an engine was not
recommended.