BYU Web Service Manual
In 1970, my father bought a maroon 1960 Mercedes Benz 220SB. Here is what it looked like. These pictures are not of the one we had, but it looked very similar.
Notice the awesome grill, bumper, and chrome cowlings around the headlights.
Also notice the chrome-edges on the rear fins, the chrome above the bumper on each side, and the chrome housing on either side of the license plate for the license plate lights.
It had a vertical speedometer. Here is what it looked like:
This car was an amazing piece of engineering. It had a straight 6 cylinder engine (not a V6) and had a manual transmission.
The gear shift lever was on the steering column. In this picture, it is the white leaver on the right pointing upward.
This car required a lot of maintenance. We had to adjust the valves in the overhead cam often. There were levers on the distributor cap to adjust the dwell angle. Amazing. It seemed we were always doing something on the car.
Before I was old enough to drive, the engine overheated big time and blew a head gasket while my dad was driving. My dad decided that he and I would fix it together. To fix it, we had to rebuild the engine. This meant taking the engine apart piece by piece (believe me, there are a lot of parts in an engine), repairing or replacing the broken ones, and putting it all back together again.
For the next couple of months, we spent almost every evening and Saturday together in the garage working on the car. It was a great time together. But, I learned a valuable lesson: Working on cars was not my favorite thing to do. In the end, we did it. Later, after I got my drivers license, I drove it during my junior and senior years in high school (1974-1976). I loved this car.
Before we began rebuilding the engine, we needed three things:
- The courage and tenacity to do it
- the tools and
- the service manual.
Whenever my dad purchased a car, he always bought the service manual so he could fix it himself.
In this course, you won’t be rebuilding an engine. But you will learn how to build web services. You will need three things. The courage and tenacity, the tools, and the service manual.
The first section of this manual is the Tools section. It will:
identify and introduce the software tools you will need and help you install them.
The rest of the manual has instructions and patterns to show you how to build all of the components needed for a comprehensive web service. Some web services need all of the components while others only need a few. As you identify the components your web service needs, use this section as a guide to build each one.
Even after you have built web services, this section can be a reference for you. You can go directly to the sections you need to remember how to build them.