Used to tighten barbed wire…..or not.

Sorry for the mistake in the second sentance. It should read 'edition' not 'addition'.

Moderation is the key!

YES! WE ARE YOUR TEAM!

I have very fond memories regarding Spam. When I was 10 I had an evening paper route, except on Sunday when I had to get up at 4:30 AM to deliver the huge special Sunday addition to all my customers before 6AM. As motivation to get up and get going on cold winter mornings my Mother would promise the two of us would have a breakfast of Spam, eggs and Hot Chocolate together when I returned after completing my rounds.
Those were very special times for me, alone with my Mother, since I was one in a family of 10.
I could smell the Spam cooking on the stove as I returned home. I usually ran the last few blocks to get home as soon as possible. The aroma of Spam cooking in a large cast iron skillet was/is heaven to me.

The can of compressed gas may not contain any water but can cool the surface to the extent it may cause liquid condensation on the surface if held too close. The escaping gas may be below the dew point of the surrounding ambient air therefore pull the humidity out of the air as water. Also the contents of the can may be a liquefied form of a gas under pressure. If held too close to the surface some of the liquefied gas may be deposited on the surface before it has a chance to boil off as a gas, thereby causing condensation on the surface.

Sometimes you can not even obtain a ‘factory’ part at any price because the Mfg. claims the part is ‘proprietary’ and does not allow the part manufacturer to sell it to anyone but the device brand manufacturer. Like some screens and electronic chips.

This all started when the computer was add to the car, which made it near impossible for the average Joe to fix his own car. Today the computer is used to PREVENT you from repairing your own car. This is happening across the board on nearly all devices. Cars, farm equipment, electronics, TV's, phones, wash machines, etc.
The manufacturers are being very clear! They do not want you to be able to repair your own stuff. In some cases they have locked up the supply chain so that you can not even buy a replacement part. You must send it to them to be repaired or buy a new device. And thier price to repair or replace a small part is sometimes more than the price of a new device. Like replacing the screen, battery or a charging port on an I phone.
Independent repair shops have resorted to buying up non-functional devices to scavenge working parts to make repairs. Mfgs. have taken to serializing key parts to a given device Serial Number so that even replacing a bad part with an identical good part may not allow the unit to function.

Some car dealers do not have a electronic diagnostician on the payroll. They farm out the work to a contract individual that comes around once a week to do nothing but diagnose electrical problems and tell the dealer’s mechanic what parts need to be replaced to fix the problems found. He does no repair work himself. He charges $100 to $125 for each diagnostic, regardless of how long it takes, up to one half hour. If it takes longer than one half hour he bills the dealer at the rate of $200 per hour.
So the dealer ‘saves-up’ the cars to be diagnosed in a special area for the contract person to look at when he comes in next Monday or a week from next Monday. The dealer mechanics replace the parts identified as needing replacement. If that does not fix the problem, or there are additional problems, the car goes back to the ‘needs diagnostic’ lot for a review the next time the electronic diagnostician shows up.

Generally the dealer will charge an 'up-front' diagnostic fee of $125 just to plug in the OBD2 device to look for the problem and an additional charge of $200 per hour while looking! Then charge $200/hour to fix the problems found plus parts. In some cases the service department is the only profitable part of the whole operation.

In the near future this may not be true as each part will be linked to that car (device) and only a dealer part will work. So third party parts may not work untill the dealer is paid to 'clear' it through the computer link....which they may refuse to do, if it is not a part they installed. Part of the Right-to-Repair problem. Much like printer ink.

Coitus Goverruptus

That might be a good 3D printer project.