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Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:31 pm
by Red Oak
Transmission has started going out in my Jeep
The A/C went out in my old truck
The deck adjusting Rube Goldberg piece of crap thingy is screwed up on my Riding Lawn Mower
The priming bulb cracked on my self propelled mower
The don't make things like they used to.
An expensive day
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:45 pm
by John in Plano
I'm too lazy to retype, copied from the mothership before it disappears
I just spent about 4 hours replacing a garagedoor opener with the help of my son.
Old one had a screw drive and the clips holding it together were failing and the silly thing wouldn't always open or close.
Got the new one in using the existing safety beams and it doesn't work.
Wire was broken in the safety beams and kinda made contact.
$170 out the window when I could have fixed it for nothing
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 4:59 pm
by Red Oak
I know the feeling.......
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 6:08 pm
by bodine
John in Plano wrote:I'm too lazy to retype, copied from the mothership before it disappears
I just spent about 4 hours replacing a garagedoor opener with the help of my son.
Old one had a screw drive and the clips holding it together were failing and the silly thing wouldn't always open or close.
Got the new one in using the existing safety beams and it doesn't work.
Wire was broken in the safety beams and kinda made contact.
$170 out the window when I could have fixed it for nothing
Fixed a similar issue with our garage door opener last month. It quit working; started troubleshooting, and I noticed one of the safety beams was not lit. It had a broken wire at the connection to the beam box. I was hoping for something simple like that...
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 6:39 pm
by Red Oak
Well I have the Rube Goldberg POS on the JD Lawn Tractor fixed. I appears that some how the S-I-L #2 bent the $/(@" out of it when he mowed the yard last week !
He means well by I swear he could tear up a chrome plates cannon ball with a rubber hammer !
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 8:56 pm
by Grassman
Can't even begin to come close to my equipment problems this week. I'd trade ya.
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sat May 31, 2014 9:08 pm
by PlanoSooner
spring cleaning around the yard is pretty expensive here too.....
something always broke.
everything needs an oil change.
takes me a week to get ready for the actual work
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 7:55 am
by John in Plano
bodine wrote:John in Plano wrote:I'm too lazy to retype, copied from the mothership before it disappears
I just spent about 4 hours replacing a garagedoor opener with the help of my son.
Old one had a screw drive and the clips holding it together were failing and the silly thing wouldn't always open or close.
Got the new one in using the existing safety beams and it doesn't work.
Wire was broken in the safety beams and kinda made contact.
$170 out the window when I could have fixed it for nothing
Fixed a similar issue with our garage door opener last month. It quit working; started troubleshooting, and I noticed one of the safety beams was not lit. It had a broken wire at the connection to the beam box. I was hoping for something simple like that...
The lights would stay on when I went and looked at the safety beams, of course I never watched them while operating the door. Wire would lose contact when the door was being operated, because of the vibration in the door track
Re: Not a good day
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2014 3:58 pm
by RaisinCain
Red Oak wrote:Transmission has started going out in my Jeep
The A/C went out in my old truck
The deck adjusting Rube Goldberg piece of crap thingy is screwed up on my Riding Lawn Mower
The priming bulb cracked on my self propelled mower
The don't make things like they used to.
An expensive day
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