Somewhat perplexed, non-understanding

[Ralph L. Fullenwider]

Aw Greg, did you not see the word "up grade" in my post?

But then your right, todays engineering has made great strides in many
areas including items such as up graded compounds on rubber or even
synthetic rubber o-rings and re build kits for valves, cylinders and so
forth. It is not more cost effective to re build a valve with a 34.00 kit
rather than replace a valve at a cost of 2 to 3 hundred dollars. Then to
have to re plumb a system to accept the new valve? Of course it does.

Up grade from an 8 track to a cd system, sure! But not to the point of
gutting a system or by passing safeties just for the sake of doing it.

Making a change for the sake of betterment is great if it can be done and
maintain integrity but to make a change because a system, any system, is
not understood is ludicrous, and usually more costly in the long run.

Much of the earlier post comes from working on my '84 and going through non
working systems to bring them back on line and the changes made to by pass
certain systems. One example of this is on the gen set, the fuel pump had
quit working so the PO removed the fuel lines, tossed them out and brazed a
fitting to by pass the pump instead of replacing it, re building it or "up
grading" to an electric fuel pump. Or how about using "new engineered"
relays in the electronics, that shut down the gen set when running only
because of "contact bounce."

Besides, Greg, I sort of liked the record players that swung out from under
the dash that played 45's when the 8 track came along.

Safe travels,

Ralph and Charolette Fullenwider
84FC35 "Ruff Diamond"
Duncan, Oklahoma

At 03:23 AM 3/20/2008 +0000, you wrote:
>Ralph, where do you find 8 trac tapes for your deck? Quite a bit of
>the old engineering is junk when compared to new tech. I never met an
>engineere who didnt want to make change for the chance that the change
>was better. Many of the parts are obsolete not because they are 'just
>not made any more' but because they have been replaced with better
>and are no longer marketable.
> Origional is ok for fried chicken.
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>GregoryO'Connor
>94ptRomolandCa
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