Blue and in the corner by the time I get back

That was what my advisor told me once of a material rack he wanted me to design and build while he was away.  At that time I was really underprepared to be designing or making pretty much anything.  I did not complete the assignment in time.  I remember all this because what he told me when he got back turned out to be the best advice I have ever gotten and something that I recently passed on to someone who needed it.  He told me that it is very easy to roughly design something; It is going to be this big and go there.  That scale of effort isn't worth anything to anyone.  Everything is in the little details that need to be thoughtfully attended to.

I have seen this come up over and over again in my short career.  When I have intentionally focused on all the little details it has ALWAYS made a huge difference in everything.  It makes minor and major projects alike go so much more smoothly and it is the difference between really impressing people and amateur hour.

Only reason I chucked that all out there now is that "blue and in the corner" is what these mounts ended up being:  Painted the DS:

 Passenger side mount gusset

I noticed a sort of centipede appearance to many of my welds that I am sure was from my zigzag motion being a little too big for the travel speed.  I switched to a swirling motion and it really helped smoothed them out.

Once again pulled out a good one when it mattered.  Again like golf I sort of practiced the motion and speed ahead of time once before spraying metal.

 Blue and in the corner.  Let's hope it stays there!  It's well rook for your engine to fall out.