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Clean switches have me up and going! My 45 year old Mark Vii is purring again.

Isn't is nice when it is something simple?:)

mbcabinetmaker wrote:Isn't is nice when it is something simple?:)

AND requires an expenditure of ONLY some TIME!;)

That is the reason that you always want to check things out in the proper sequence. "Always begin at the beginning"...
A car dealer of my acquaintance from years ago finally closed his business because he could not hire "mechanics". He told me that all he could hire were "parts replacers". He said that when a customer brought in a car with a problem they just started replacing parts until the problem was solved and the customer ended up paying for a lot of parts that they didn't need. It made a lot of money for the shop short term but he felt that it was hurting his car business long term and hurt his personal reputation as well. Early on he had been able to hire good mechanics who could follow a logical sequence of diagnostics and pin-point problems. He said that those guys really helped him sell cars...
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I have seen guys working on their own cars do the jump in and replace a bunch of parts thing and still have the same problem. Then often when they found the problem it was something truly simple and sometimes even a little embarrassing.

robinson46176 wrote:That is the reason that you always want to check things out in the proper sequence. "Always begin at the beginning"...
A car dealer of my acquaintance from years ago finally closed his business because he could not hire "mechanics". He told me that all he could hire were "parts replacers". He said that when a customer brought in a car with a problem they just started replacing parts until the problem was solved and the customer ended up paying for a lot of parts that they didn't need. It made a lot of money for the shop short term but he felt that it was hurting his car business long term and hurt his personal reputation as well. Early on he had been able to hire good mechanics who could follow a logical sequence of diagnostics and pin-point problems. He said that those guys really helped him sell cars...
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I have seen guys working on their own cars do the jump in and replace a bunch of parts thing and still have the same problem. Then often when they found the problem it was something truly simple and sometimes even a little embarrassing.

If I may add to this; VERIFY the defect BEFORE replacing the 'defective' part!:rolleyes: Doing so will eliminate replacing parts and still having the 'problem'.