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Old 12-04-2008, 07:55 PM
andyburns andyburns is offline
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Originally Posted by S-Class Guru View Post
I would bet that 99% of home appliances, small and large, are discarded and replaced due to failure of a part costing no more than $5. Of course, for those who don't have guys like us around, hiring someone to fix it costs more than a new one. We can't all be Robert Redford, so I subscribe to tha addage that a Handy Man is more desirable than a Handsome Man!

Keep turning those wrenches guys,
DG
Well said. I have seen many check book restorations in my day. I have taken great satisfaction in reviving as many old part as I possibly could with the real satisfaction being when some one with a reasonable degree of knowledge scrutinises your work and mistakes it for brand new factory parts rather than 40-50 year old ones with a lot of old fashoned hard yaka applied.
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