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I think we all know that hardware problems tend to come in clusters - maybe some airborne virus? In the past few weeks we've had the following...
The DVD drive in my laptop stopped working. Naturally, it's at the very bottom of all those small cards and gizmos and it took me 3 hours to replace it.
Our laser printer just jammed up. Wouldn't feed paper, wouldn't even try. It was a cheapy so I replaced it. Naturally, we had a new $80 toner cartridge on the shelf that now is useless.
Our phone has had intermittent problems and has dial tone about half time. The phone company keeps trying, but no fix for over a week.
The inkjet printer packed it in. It was doing its daily (weekly?) "cleaning cycle" and then started stuttering and bound up. Sort of like a cat I had once. We replaced that too. Now I need to try to return a bunch of spare cartridges for the old one. Plastic gears suck.
Now, the outboard motor just let out one huge backfire and I found a sparkplug laying in the housing. I'd even <span style="font-style: italic">torqued</span> them this time, which I seldom do. I guess that used head wasn't in a good shape as it seemed. I have a spare & have ordered a head gasket.
Then an under counter light in the kitchen started acting up. Just replaced that since the transformer replacement would have cost more than a new light.
I plan to start parking the cars at a neighbor's, well away from the rest of our mechanical stuff since whatever it is is clearly spreading.
Nice to have those new printers, though.
The DVD drive in my laptop stopped working. Naturally, it's at the very bottom of all those small cards and gizmos and it took me 3 hours to replace it.
Our laser printer just jammed up. Wouldn't feed paper, wouldn't even try. It was a cheapy so I replaced it. Naturally, we had a new $80 toner cartridge on the shelf that now is useless.
Our phone has had intermittent problems and has dial tone about half time. The phone company keeps trying, but no fix for over a week.
The inkjet printer packed it in. It was doing its daily (weekly?) "cleaning cycle" and then started stuttering and bound up. Sort of like a cat I had once. We replaced that too. Now I need to try to return a bunch of spare cartridges for the old one. Plastic gears suck.
Now, the outboard motor just let out one huge backfire and I found a sparkplug laying in the housing. I'd even <span style="font-style: italic">torqued</span> them this time, which I seldom do. I guess that used head wasn't in a good shape as it seemed. I have a spare & have ordered a head gasket.
Then an under counter light in the kitchen started acting up. Just replaced that since the transformer replacement would have cost more than a new light.
I plan to start parking the cars at a neighbor's, well away from the rest of our mechanical stuff since whatever it is is clearly spreading.
Nice to have those new printers, though.
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