Am I a Dumbass or what

A little story from the old days. In my Navy days, at NAS Miramar, I had a part time job at the auto hobby shop. Some guys were trying to change a fuel pump on a Falcon, and came over and said "they broke a bolt" and they "broke the easy out off" and now they "broke the drill they were trying to get the easy out with"

I said, "You HAVE to find someone who knows what they are doing, but a good torch man can cut the bolt out of there and the cast won't be damaged."

So they went to the tool room, and lied to the tool guy and said "oh yeah, we know how to..............." and got the torch set

THEN THEY came back over "look what you made us do" they had melded part of the mounting boss into a mess of black and gooey cast iron.

I told them only thing I knew to do was get a cover plate and a BUNCH of silcone (which was "brand new" on the market then) and see if they could seal it up. I'm sure to this day I get the blame for that