This book is at least one good argument for the process of evolution. In its beginning stages, it was never meant to become a book. In the fall and winter of 1969, armed with an ordinary lead pencil, d developed a method for an alignment like Figure 1 in the Rim and Face chapter in this book. Each took about ten complex steps.

Then early in 1989, I was asked by a relative, and good friend, to teach him what I could about alignment. At the time we were both unprepared for any such lesson. With only a broom handle laid in two sawed-out notches in two 2X4 s, no dial indicators, and no pump or couplings, even Einstein should have difficulty in teaching a complete novice the process of motor alignment. Upon returning home I began to write letters to my friend. That s essentially how the two chapters: What To Do First, and Handy Practices Tricks came into being. Later I began to delve into the more difficult area of explaining how to divide the rim reading by 2, logic if it meant to get up or down, then multiply the face reading times the distance to the front foot, then to the rear foot, then divide by the indicator path, etc., etc. People, I ve written a book, on the subject of alignment and the above sentence is still confusing!

So I got to wondering if the same story could be told in a series of symbols instead of an...