Alko ATC - A cautionary Tale
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Well said, DD!
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No EU directive is a watered down British Standard. They are in no way related. There are European standards, many of which were once BSI documents as we lead the world in specifications so many of ours were willingly adopted as CEN, CENELEC or ETSI standards across Europe. This benefited British industry as most decent UK companies were already compliant. Adoption of any standard is a national decision and standards can not be imposed on any member country. FACT.
EU directives on the other hand lay down certain results that must be achieved but each Member State is free to decide how to transpose directives into national laws.
So remember when you were a lad and the average industrial mans lifespan was lucky to touch 60 years due to toxins and carcinogens in the industrial processes, and 95% of British rivers had no vertebrate life in them due to pesticide and heavy metals, our beaches were choked with deposits from tankers and sewage, our air was chocked with industrial effluent, our tapwater had lead in it destroying the kidneys of infants, we discharged human effluent into rivers (and then drank it again further downstream), we couldn't eat shellfish from the UK coast due to Mercury poisoning of every riverbed in the country, and many many more.
Well they were all fixed by disgusting EU Directives forced on the UK by those foreigners.
Still no problem we can switch back once we are free from this tyranny.
I assume you will rethink your fact?
I suppose you will be glad to see the back of European Court of Human Rights as well!
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Actually lead pipe, the main factor for lead in drinking water, was banned from homes in the UK in1969, 4 years prior to our joining the EEC, which was a trading alliance, it was many years later it became the EU which started focusing on legal harmonisation.
But as you all say, some good some bad.
As for the OP, surely the noise alone would be enough to guess the ATC is doing a self test?
My default position is to never read a handbook for anything unless I cant use the thing I have, then my first port of call, like my above lead pipe statement, is Google, handbook being last.
YouTube is probably the best handbook for most things. For examole I learnt to block pave in 6 minutes!
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That's why the handbook has an index
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Unfortunately being stupid is a good enough reason to engage an ambulance chasing parasite.
The car companies try to disclaim every type of stupidity in an attempt to minimise litigation. Unfortunately the idiots are ingenious and continually innovate new ways to injure themselves.
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