29 May
2007
29 May
'07
3:55 a.m.
On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 13:51 -0500, Jim Battle wrote:
Tony, you have lots of time on your hands. Many
people here have a job,
a wife, and kids that take priority over any hobby activity. You have
I've got the first two, but not the latter. Does an excess of small fat
ponies count?
space to set up a nice workshop, and not everybody is
so well supplied
I definitely don't have space
as you. If Eric can send an email, proffer some
money, receive a power
supply in mail, plug in the new power supply and go, I can easily
imagine it takes less of his time than to fix it.
Great. But don't bin the old one - send it to ChrisM or Tony who will
then fix it!
ChrisM said it would take three minutes to fix the
power supply. That
is horse byproduct. It takes my soldering iron more than three minutes
to get hot. :-) Many of us don't have a well supplied junk box, so it
You let your soldering iron cool down? Eh what? And why don't you have
a well-stocked junk box, anyway?
still takes a trip to an electronics shop or a web
order to get the
replacement. Disassembling the power supply, cleaning up the mess from
the faulty cap(s), unsoldering, soldering in the new one, reassembling
the case ... it all adds up.
I can't speak for Eric, but I can easily imagine making a similar choice.
Each to their own, I suppose...
Gordon