[Repairs] Illustrated parts lists; translations?

[Nicholas Bodley]

Organizations with the resources sometimes provide exploded (that's the  
term) diagrams of their products, with callouts for each part, and dashed  
lies showing how parts fit together, usually by showing which screw holes  
line up.

Digital photography has simplified preparing the illustrations, *perhaps*,  
but, in any event, preparing these diagrams must be quite labor-intensive,  
and I doubt that even AUTOCAD can create these (but am prepared to be  
surprised).

I've scanned the parts lists, and think it's likely that some descriptions  
are not self-explanatory.  ("Oh, so *that's* what they call it!") No need  
to stress the possibility of ordering the wrong part. (For the electronics  
people, a 1N4000 diode is not a member of the 1N4001 series, as we learned  
decades ago. It's not a generally-useful part.)

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What about translations of parts lists?  Should we presume that anyone  
using them has some knowledge of English? Translating requires technical  
knowledge, as well as linguistic. Again, not a quick task.

-- 
Nicholas Bodley
Waltham, Mass.
The USA is deporting its own citizens:
The Nation. June 23, 2008, P. 20
(Apparently not online :(  )