Machines require maintenance even when they are not in regular use
Summary
- Machines require maintenance even when they are not in regular use
Details
- Machines that are not in regular use will still rust, seize up, leak or rot.
- If you will not be using a machine regularly it may be better to get rid of it.
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The need for maintenance doesn’t stop when usage stops. The upkeep of any machine is largely about tending to the four sources of most problems: moving parts, flowing fluids, flowing electricity, and temperature stresses. Every bit of the moving, flowing, and stressing causes wear and tear, but damage also comes from not moving, flowing, or stressing. Nonmoving parts seize up. Nonflowing fluids leak or curdle into gunk. Rubber starts to rot. Corrosion gets into everything. Crawford told his customer with the half-dead Honda, “You might want to just get rid of it.”
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- Our life is frittered away by detail…Simplify, simplify, simplify… Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose - Henry David Thoreau
- Every complex machine eventually breaks down