Spare parts and reliable mechanical expertise are best found in the major population centres.

Their transportation, an old Renault, had died on them the first night, and all of Tucker's mechanical expertise could not repair a broken axle.

We may need Violet's mechanical expertise, or Klaus's knowledge of the tidal charts.

Unfortunately, this lift was not working properly and it took a lodge engineer and my companion's mechanical expertise to make it operational.

He exhibited his mechanical expertise recently when he took the motor from a remote-control car and put it into a toy truck his mother was throwing away.

He had been chosen primarily for his mechanical expertise, and had tested the motor sledges in Switzerland.

When asked why she keeps her mechanical expertise a secret, she says, "guys don't like it when you know more about cars than they do."

Assisted by Bernie's mechanical expertise, the improvements are sometimes questionable.

"Just five years ago, many of the older superintendents just had mechanical expertise," he said.

If a particular task required technical or mechanical expertise, Shorty Steinitz and Dorothy Wu, our two resident master mechanics, generally handled it.