"RST Engineering - JIm" wrote in message
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Legal liability, plain and simple. He was sued multiple times for stupid
builder mistakes..

Jim


Yes, I recalled that he was sued and, although he won, the experience and
expense left him thoroughly disgusted; and that, although he had set a
precident that served to protect plans suppliers, he then opted to leave the
plans business. I had forgotten, if I ever knew, that there had been
multiple suits.

However; my point was that, in Burt's absense, most of the time saving
portions of what he taught were almost immediately forgotten.

Actually, there is also reason to hypothesize that something similar may
have also occurred with other construction methods--or that a similar guru
never arived on the scene after some of the required skills ceased to be
commonplace in the population. As just one example: How do you justify a
"quick build kit" for a metal airplane when the standard kit already
includes the precision standing, bending and drilling? The answer is that
you don't--at least not after you read Bob (Veeduber) Hoover's blog treatise
on riveting and then really think about the implecations!

Peter