The bottom
line is that you state the above as if it were some
scientifically verifiable axiom, when in fact, its just your opinion.
It's not just Tony's opinion - it's one that's shared by me; I work for
a
Field Service company and the lack of possible component level repair is a
constant pain for us in this 'just swap it out' day and age purely because
some of the components are easily available but the knowledge, schematics
and service books are gone to the hills and most of us are trained
electronic engineers.
Whether you think this is practical or not isn't important because there are
people out there paying real money to have that sort of service because they
need it.
I am glad and relieved that there are persons such as Tony and yourself
with that aptitude, and I might mention, *job description*. After all, as
you mention, there are people paying you for that level of expertise.
I don't think it is a coincidence that you and (IIRC) Tony work in that
profession and thus have daily exposure to investigating and resolving
those sorts of issues at that level of detail. In that sense, the
repairmen/women who do not graduate to that skill set certainly have
less of an excuse.
However, those of us who do not deal on a daily basis, or even weekly,
with this sort of thing do not have the time in grade that you or Tony
would. That makes a difference. If I'm working 10 hours a day seeing
patients, and deal with my Commodores on the weekend, and few other systems
simply because I haven't the time, money or space, I think it's only to
be expected that I will have inferior skills in this area.
But I agree with you about those in your profession with this problem, and
I do think that's a shame.
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