[TheForge] Re: O.T. tool humor

[Jerry Frost]

>
>         The spring was perfect and required no attention.
> (This may be the cheapest way to get replacement springs for older
> brand-name tools.  Front C$2.50, throw away the tool, keep the
> spring.)  Not wisdom, just pure pigheaded stubborness.
>
> See also: Anvil Shaped Object.
>
> - Mike
>
> --
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada       .~.
>                                                            /V\


Kind of reminds me of a trick I learned for ordering hard to get things.
Many years ago I tried to order a D cell battery pack for my Walkman, it'd
go through AAs in a few hours where a pair of Ds would last literally weeks.
Anyhow the things were on backorder with a many months long wait and it
didn't matter which store I hit, Sony just wasn't sending them out.

The guy at the electronics counter had to go talk to someone else and left
the catalogue on the counter so I took a gander. The battery pack had two
PNs, one was the retail # the other was the replacement #.

<grin> Ayup the "replacement" part arrived in 48 hrs, freight paid. Since
then I've worked it both ways, sometimes there's a backorder on new parts
but not on replacements and sometimes the other way around. Sometimes
there's a price difference too.

Frosty
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it ain't real.
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