Some notes on Puerto Rico, snow crabs, and in the "Where there's a will there's a way" department...
The generator pull cord is now all sorted out and I'm left with a feeling of accomplishment and the sour taste of how designers just don't design stuff to be fixed or serviced anymore.
I've lost track of how many bits of gear that we've bought and had fail only to be replaced rather than fixed which makes you wonder about the sanity of our current economic model. Buy something from Amazon or Walmart and if it does not work they'll just send you another. Most of the time they don't even want the old one back.
A while back our Karcher that we use for our watermaker had a small issue with a connector so, as it was under warranty, we asked if we could get the $10 widget to the replace the faulty one. Karcher just sent us a new pressure washer instead. Now, I'm not adverse to having a spare pressure pump for the boat but it does take up a lot of room and Karcher lost a chunk of money the deal.
That said, I guess it's better that the old days where getting a new Autohelm tiller pilot replaced or fixed was nigh on impossible due to the company's various anti-consumer policies that pretty much made their warranty worthless.
Listening to my favorite Zappa composition
So it goes...
