...than being told "You can't do that!"
Just nipped out to get some rubber heels to re-heel my shoes. Ended up trogging from place to place (wearing the heels out even more) asking and being directed each time to another shop. Ended up in a local market hall where a very rude man refused to sell me a pair and offered to re-heel my shoes for £7 then sneered when I said I'd like to try doing them myself. That infuriated me so much that I shot off to the local town where a stall in that market offered to do them for £9. Then Timpson's who sell soles but not heels (why?) and charge £14. I smell a cartel here, even Wilkinson's, roughly the same shop as Woolies should have been, stopped selling them some months ago. Why should I pay someone to do such a simple repair? Back to the office where I found two websites selling all my shoe repair requirements.
It was the same with the battery on my iPod - I refused to pay someone else £33.00 to do it and I got the damned awkward thing open and soldered in a new battery for £7.00.
It's the same with all kinds of other simple repairs and jobs around the house - I hate it when somebody sucks their teeth and says "Difficult job that - best call a professional". I got this reaction from plumbers when I fitted my solar panel; they rolled their eyes and muttered about Legionella. No wonder really, when they charge £5000 for something that cost me £500.
Even worse when they try to back up thier insistance that they know what they're doing...with utter tosh. You can drink a glass of legionella infected water and it wont hurt you. It has to be in minute droplets so it gets into the bloodstream via the lungs, which is why it's always associated with airconditioning systems. A closed circuit like a solar panel present NO risk whatsoever.
Works taught me you really can do most things you never dreamed of, if you put your mind to it. We have a PLC system on a machine that fails every now and then. £350 every time to replace it. Can it be repaired...oh no sir.
Yes it can if you study the diagrams for it. Look for the output thats failed, trace it on the diagram, find the relevent relay thats on the circuit board, solder in a new one (cost about £7)...bobs yer uncle.
£7...or £350. let me see...
Mind it backfires sometimes, sometimes it's ourselves that say 'i cant do that'. We had an old television that suddenly went blank. The wife said 'take the back off and have a look'. 'I can't do that, what the hell do you expect me to see in there ?'...'have a go anyway' she said. Duly took off the back, had a lookee and saw a power transister had seperated from its 'leg'. Soldered it back on...bingo. 'There you go' she said
