20 Jun
2003
20 Jun
'03
6:02 a.m.
At 01:19 PM 6/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Quothe Tom Uban, from writings of Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at
11:02:24AM -0500:
Yes, having repaired PDP-11s back in the day for Purdue University, I
am completely aware of both the pros and the cons of repairing muffin
fans. In this case, the fans have a fair amount of rust inside of them
and I some are just plain shot as a result. It didn't take me all that
long to find a source and the price that I got on a large purchase made
it all that much more worth while.
I found a relatively cheap source of surplus fans
at Pembleton Electronics,
here in my home state of Indiana, so I guess that I am set for now...
It would have been easier and quicker in the long run, considering how
long it took you to find a source for the fans, and the time it takes
to purchase them, to have repaired your fans. Doh! :-) It really is a
simple process to disassemble a fan and pack the bearings with new
grease to make it spin freely again. ...but then, far too many people have become lazily
wasteful, just
replacing things rather than repairing them, then moaning about all of
the pollution, toxic-waste and related resulting problems. Instead of
learning a lesson from this, and then repairing things and keeping
them longer, the dimwits look to more landfills and waste recycling,
as the "solution" when proper "recycling," e.g. repair rather than
replacement, could have prevented the problems in the first place.
Sure, if the machine had been in my care in the first place, then it
never would have sat in conditions which would have allowed the fans to
become rusted. And the original boards would not have been sent to the
scrapper for metal reclamation either. Fortunately, I have enough spare
parts to make this machine whole again and I would consider that to
be a pretty good case of "recycleing" on the whole. Does this still
qualify me as "lazily wasteful" and a "dimwit"?
--tom
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