Burgandymog, seems we think alike to some degree as per my post on the subject... (-:

Also fully support Arwyn`s thinking relative to safety, and the idea of providing encouragement for folks of unknown skill levels to work on their own machinery and equipment can lead to tragic circumstances in some instances. Over many years I have unfortunately seen loss of life in the workplace as the result of not working to H&S requirements, and much else.

I am guilty of being the child of the make do and mend generation, and with limited funds could not have hoped to own a machine of my own as a yoof, unless I found one that had been used and abused and left as virtual scrap, which brought it within the range of my pocket.. (-: I put a lot of time and effort into fumbling around trying to gain information from anywhere, in the hope of bringing some usable life back into it, which was not as easy in the pre interweb days... and today there may still be those prepared to take some degree of risk to repair their machine, given the possible precurser to any attempt at a repair by a dealership may result in a circa £200 session in the dialogue bay, before any attempt is made to effect a repair....!

As ever each to their own....