Why spoil the ship for a ha porth of tar

In their press release, Sandvik then go on to warn that not all instrumentation tubing might be suitable for specific applications — even if it meets applicable international standards. The challenge is that many of these standards only provide recommendations for minimum or maximum levels….. It really is important to ask yourself whether your supplier is providing the optimum quality for your particular application, even if the quality supplied is technically within the standard.

This prompted me to look for more background information. Indeed, back-tracking to the SMT website , I found a reference indicating that is directly relevant to the valve industry:. The message about the importance of correcting tube selection and fabrication was reinforced on visiting the Parker Hannifin website and finding a document on instrumentation tubing. Not only do Parker offer equipment to fabricate tubing systems, it seems they can also provide training courses as well.

These courses, they say, can teach anybody the right way to measure, cut, and bend tubing. With so much tubing being used to operate flow control systems, then perhaps the humble tube is a product which deserves its fair share of attention to ensure system reliability? Valve World is a leading international magazine on valves, control valves, actuators and associated products with a worldwide distribution.

We use cookies to track site visits anonymously. Despite our protestations, Bill presents us with lots of photos of his yachts, and every single one is sullied by bad lighting and bad framing, and of course there is not a single face in sight, let alone a happy, smiling one.

So there we are. Bill has just spent hundreds of euros on his new site, which looks really great — except for the shabby photos, which are the first thing you see when you reach his site, an instant turn-off to potential clients. This has actually been such an issue for us in the past that nowadays we have a clause in our friendly, no-nonsense contract insisting that only professional quality graphics and images are used.

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In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. To spoil the ship for a ha'porth of tar. Thread starter Montesacro Start date Dec 20, Montesacro Senior Member Roma. Hallo everybody!

You can say that Jim 'spoilt his ship for a ha'porth half penny worth of tar'. The image is of someone who has a small hole in his ship, and to save money he doesn't fill it with tar, and the water comes in and causes damage.

Click to expand You can also call this a 'false economy' - it looks like saving money but instead it wastes money. Ciao Montesacro. I'd be more likely to say here He cut his own nose off to spite his face.

I don't think so, since the proverb implies intent, and in particular a sort of misguided stinginess. That being said, I can't think of an analogous proverb to fit the second example you gave.

I don't think I would use it to refer to an accidental situation.