----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom C" Subject: Re: Don't want to sound too alarmist but...
>I think the new technology is often easily repairable. It's just that most > of the electronics is now manufactured overseas and it's incredibly cheap. > A company makes more profit replacing an entire circuit board that costs > $20 > and charging $250 + 1 hour labor, than they do trouble shooting the board > for an hour and replacing $.10 and $1.00 parts. For the company, time is > money. Also, the customer unable to diagnose othe problem, is happy just > to > get the serviceman in and out. We used to get service peopl in from CX Systems to work on our rather flakey Gretag 3140 printer. One of their favourite troubleshooting methods was to take circuit boards from one machine and put them into the other one until they moved the problem. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
