Dissassociate Yourself From The Problem!
One of the biggest errors an owner can make is to get emotionally involved with a mechanical malfunction or breakdown. The "What If's" start piling up, spoiling of personal plans erodes objectivity, a...
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I march to the beat of a bit different drum.
Broken stuff is almost always due to something, somewhere, being designed, or built, or installed in an inferior way ... which I almost universally consider as unnecessary, pathetic, and a waste of my emotions and time ... or worse yet maybe a threat to safety.
To minimize stuff breaking - or at least from breaking any more:
1. After research I always buy the best I can possibly afford.
2. If it breaks, after research I always buy the best parts for it I can possibly afford.
3. If it breaks, after research and head scratching I try to repair it in a modified way so as to ensure that kind of break will never occur again.
Finding ways to live with the mediocre merely ensures that we will always have it around.
Broken stuff is almost always due to something, somewhere, being designed, or built, or installed in an inferior way ... which I almost universally consider as unnecessary, pathetic, and a waste of my emotions and time ... or worse yet maybe a threat to safety.
To minimize stuff breaking - or at least from breaking any more:
1. After research I always buy the best I can possibly afford.
2. If it breaks, after research I always buy the best parts for it I can possibly afford.
3. If it breaks, after research and head scratching I try to repair it in a modified way so as to ensure that kind of break will never occur again.
Finding ways to live with the mediocre merely ensures that we will always have it around.
