Re: Repair Parts List Organization

[Peter Neilson <neilson -at- alltel -dot- net>]

Here's some insight into using service manuals and
parts lists.

I have a couple of old tractors and the usual amount
of "redneck-style" trucks and junk, even though I'm
not a redneck myself.  The tractors are still in
use, or are supposed to be.  We use the trucks all
the time, and I am better at diagnosis than a lot
of mechanics.  Exploded views help a lot.  Foreign
parts lists are humorous: "Mission Assembly" and
"Buttery Earth Cable" are two of my favorites.

I use the parts lists when the dealer has managed
to supply the wrong part and I have to have a serious
discussion.  Helps, for instance, when the part has
the right number but is actually the wrong part.
(Think about how *that* happens in the factory!)

Laura Lemay wrote:

> On 8/4/05, tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com <tjohnson -at- starcutter -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> If you were designing a list of parts for a complicated machine, how 
would
>> you organize the list?
>
>
>
> I used to repair old motorcycles in my spare time.  I just happen to
> have a hard copy parts list for a the 1961-1967 Honda CB77 Superhawk
> here in front of me.
>
> The parts are organized in several different lists:
> +  By assembly, with exploded diagrams of each part of the machine,
> and reference numbers referring to specific parts within that assembly
>
> +  By part type, eg bolts, gaskets, o-rings, washers
>
> +  By use, eg parts you'll need for tuneups
>
> + Overall part number reference.  If you have strange part
> 11395-259-000, what is it?  Its a clutch cover gasket.
>
> To be fair, however, in actual use 99.9% of the time I would go into
> my Honda dealer and say "I need a part" and they would pull up the
> microfiche of the exploded diagram for the engine or the instrument
> cluster or whatever and I would point at the part I needed on the
> screen.  Then they'd just type that number into a database and order
> the part.  The remaining .01% of the time I actually had one of the
> part and I needed two so I already had the number.  I never actually
> used any of the the parts lists in the repair manual.
>
> Can you find out how your customers use your parts lists?


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