Sediment bowl shut off

[Mike McKown]

Originally Posted by J-Mech

For the life of me I don't understand why people are so eager to save a couple bucks.

a) I understand. Some don't have the extra money to start with.

b) Some have the money but they want to learn something/try an alternate method.

c) Some people intensely dislike throwing away and usable part without making some attempt to repair it.

d) Many people are not members of the "throwaway" generation and can remember when money was very tight even if it isn't at the moment.

In my experience, repairing a part or substituting a part to see the effects can be viewed as a learning experience, if not an outright cost save. Of course, occasionally, you'll suffer a loss.

There is nothing any more rewarding to me (and others like me) to look at something broken and figure a way to fix it rather than simply replacing.

The old guy in the picture below was somewhat my mentor when I first started turning wrenches. He ran an auto repair shop and later became a Ferguson tractor dealer. A farmer would come in with something broken, no way he'd try to put on a new part if he could fix what was broken.