Re: Scrounger / scrapper websites?

Posted by NCWayne on July 03, 2009 at 21:02:31 from (98.21.228.167):

In Reply to: Scrounger / scrapper websites? posted by Doug - Iowa on July 03, 2009 at 19:12:47:

The problem I see with opening things up to fix, I agree, is partly laziness, but the major problem is lack of parts to fix them. I can't even begin to cound the number of times in the past few years I've tried to repair this or that when it was obvious that say a 10 cent part was the only problem, only to find that the part, was a priporitaty item and wasn't available. Sometimes you can find a replacement off the shelf, sometimes not. The problem there comes with the OEM's having their suppliers make the items with no part numbers, etc making it virtually impossible to find the part or to know the specs of the part to find a replacement.

Case in point I needed an expansion valve the other day for the AC system in an Ingersall Rand rock drill. The only way it was available through the OEM was to buy the complete evaporator core/housing assembly. The same went for the blower fan whan it went out several years back. The fan was repairable, an expansion valve wasn't. The complete unit had to come from overseas and was in the $1500 range. In other words $1500 to get a $100 fan or a $20 expansion valve. Enough research finally turned up an application for an expansion valve, with the same sized "nonstandard" metric threaded outlet port. Turned out it fit Geo Trackers and Metros back in the '90's so I was able to get it from NAPA using the application even when NOBODIES books showed it when searched for by size. After that mess was straightened out, don't even get me started on when the blower motor on the condensor on the same machine.....

Tried the other day to get a 40 pin AMP brand electrical connector to make a trobueshooting tool with. The only way they make them is where they can be mounted on a computer board. You can get a plug that can be connected to the harness but the recepticles are board mount only. needles to say soldering 40 wires to each of two reciepticles is turing out to be a royal PITA but when done i'll have a nice breakout box that will make troubleshooting alot easier.

True "laziness" plays a large part in people not repairing things but I think the "laziness" has been brough on, at least in my case, more as a by product of complete exaspiration of not being able to get the needed parts. After awhile it's simply easier to just say to heck with it than to waste days and dollars looking for parts that don't exist or going through multiple parts and wasting money looking for a workable replacement part......but that's jut my .02

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