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:
> > 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.
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.
>...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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