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June 6, 2018

The Co-op: The only guaranty in life is change

So our past resident guru, John D. Came by to figure out what button got push because you KNOW computers don’t make mistakes!  “Danger Will Robinson…..” What about him?  There must be something more to this…..and as it turned out there was.  Between my phone being a year old…. other things on the internet upgrading…..a fancy way of saying u need to feed your computer reddish and to stay up with prepared obsolescence, my phone will no longer speak to my (BTW 2 year old lap top…….see, now I have to get all NEW stuff!

Sorry guys, until I can collect a few more aluminum cans plunking here may be a challenge.  Still can’t change fonts so printing will be best as……. Pics will be unprocessed meaning huge!  So if YOUR computer is older it’s gonna load slower….see….you need to feed YOUR pig too!  I tell ya they have us!

Something else has become evident to me and I have a perfect non GMC example to show ya.  Seems we have found a need to help others in the RV community…….ZipDee is working hard to come up with exciting new products but as u know doing cutting edge stuff comes with challenges.  They have an awesome new electric awning being fitted to new Airstream trailers.  Both Airstream and ZipDee are quality based companies but in the field experiences with new product shows up issues….so even this $100,000 Airstream and its equally awesome ZipDee awning find they have problems which we were happy to work thru for them . fixing that another issue was no TV antenna output…..had to pull up the antenna to find a bad cable…..buried in the inner walls of the unit……OoooKkkkk.  Even “new” has problems……and then there is the 1979 Ford pickup we dolled up recently.  We did “everything” but the motor….it seemed to run great! Then before delivery we changed the oil to find part of a piston skirt in the oil pan……. Can’t do anything without doing the motor and its running good….lets see what happens.  Wound out 2nd in the manual gear box…..motor running funny the dis gear drift pin sneered and yup….the motor stopped.  Do we install a new drift pin on the dust gear?  Was it a fluke?  There are no flukes….oil pump locking up…. Something on the cam…..Murphy set up household in piston #2 ……. No now know but it will have to come out.  Moral here is anything you say is “good enough” will fail.  Got a tag for our new..old Volvo.  and drove it homes last night. Within the 3 mile drive the of wheel bearing started making nasty sounds! So now the preplanned weekend driving the cool car to the beach can’t happen!  Crap!

So why did I subject u guys to these horror stories?

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Article by jimbounds / The Daily Pose

Comments

  1. Sprocket says

    June 6, 2018 at 3:46 PM

    Wow, sounds like all the vehicles at my house, lol. Never a dull moment!

  2. Pete Smith says

    June 9, 2018 at 12:06 PM

    Love the big pictures……now we can zoom in to all the detail. Please keep big pics if you can.

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