On 11/24/2013 8:15 AM, Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

There's an old (perhaps true) mythos about when Royce/Rolls first
introduced an automatic transmission. They were adamant about making it
to much tighter tolerances than "consumer" trannies, because they
demanded the utmost in 'quality'. Then they discovered that the valve
body and shuttles HAD to be sloppy in order to work at all. G

John Browning's 1911 .45ACP:

With too tight tolerances, the pistol is unreliable in combat conditions
due to mud, dirt, dust and the debris of a combat environment, and the
guaranteed likelihood of not being able to keep it clean and lubricated
on a regular basis.

That built in sloppiness sacrificed accuracy for reliability, but made
for an excellent tradeoff for a weapon used mostly in close quarters.

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