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Re: Repair help

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2014-09-26 14:29

I hope the "16 runs" were only 16 months worth of oilings. You are going about it the right way if you are just learning for the sake of taking care of the immediate needs instead of running to a shop for every basic problem. However, if you you mean to be a knowledgable repairman, I'd suggest hooking up with an honest to God technician and actually doing an apprenticeship.

As for the "slips" such as a lost pivot or broken spring. Things won't always go as planned, which is why you have to be able to "improvise" a lot of the time. Just be methodical with taking things apart. And when parts are out, have a definite place for them (where they won't roll away or get bumped off), and definite order. It also might help to have a strong (rare earth) magnet and flashlight handy to help find that stray part (there's always one that wants to get away).

Just like practicing scales etc., you learn by doing, you learn by repetition.

............Paul Aviles

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