It's really hard getting older
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mark james
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How sad that kids this age are thinking of such issues! I see this every day; not a good situation!
toddlajoie
Member
There is only one alternative to aging, and it is not a good one...
steamshovel
Member
I don't have any signs yet, Sometimes I will be looking for something in my shop and after several trips around my shop muttering to my self where is it? And then I remember to look in my hand and that's when I know I am in the advanced stages of stupid. I can't hear good, forget what I am talking about and drift off. I could mention a lot other things but don't have enough space. Will Rogers said "old age is hell"
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TellicoTurning
Member
You're only old if you think of yourself as old....I'm 72 and I can't work as long or as hard as I did a few years back, I get out of breath quicker doing manual labor, the knees ache after standing at the lathe for a few hours, takes me longer to pee than it used to, but in my head I'm still a young man and plan to stay that way....
Yea, sometimes I feel like a 40 year old guy trapped in a 76 year old body. Sometimes I look in the mirror and ask "Who the hell is that old coot and how did he get in my house?"
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Quality Issues
Recently we have been seeing some real quality issues in discussions here. Things like parts on 'the same kits from the same seller' not interchangeable.
Frequently these things are a result of the manufacturer making an unauthorized change, that they don't even tell the seller they've made. Sometimes the manufacturer thinks of these changes as an improvement - made to a little tighter tolerance and then discovers it's a little too tight and something doesn't fit right. They didn't make the change to save money, the materials and labor to make the new part are the same.
On of the reasons this happens is that the manufacturers seem to lack facilities to make a small run to make sure everything still works before they implement a change - I recently had to change out thousands of transmission sleeves because the manufacturer mistakenly plated them making them too big for the tubes. That didn't make them cost him less to make - they cost him more.
I am wondering what, if anything, can be done about this. I do know I am seeing more quality issues than I've seen in a long time and most of them are really the manufacturer just dropping the ball.
Recently we have been seeing some real quality issues in discussions here. Things like parts on 'the same kits from the same seller' not interchangeable.
Frequently these things are a result of the manufacturer making an unauthorized change, that they don't even tell the seller they've made. Sometimes the manufacturer thinks of these changes as an improvement - made to a little tighter tolerance and then discovers it's a little too tight and something doesn't fit right. They didn't make the change to save money, the materials and labor to make the new part are the same.
On of the reasons this happens is that the manufacturers seem to lack facilities to make a small run to make sure everything still works before they implement a change - I recently had to change out thousands of transmission sleeves because the manufacturer mistakenly plated them making them too big for the tubes. That didn't make them cost him less to make - they cost him more.
I am wondering what, if anything, can be done about this. I do know I am seeing more quality issues than I've seen in a long time and most of them are really the manufacturer just dropping the ball.