Re: J Rojas

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roland Moore wrote:
> You know I hate to complain but I sent some Ademco #39's to Jim for repair.
> The contacts all smelled like stale motor oil when Jim finally returned
> them. I was horrified to learn that he went to the local junk yard and
> removed points from the ignitions in 60s era autos to rebuild them. The
> contacts thump and click never sounds the same after one of his repair jobs.

They may "thump and click", but they'll still be working 500 years from
now when archaeologists dig them up from the rubble of what used to be a
building.


> But it doesn't matter anymore. I found another guy on line that does them
> for 00.0003751 USD cheaper per thousand. He sends them all to a real factory
> in China. So no more long waits for Jim's garage repairs and junkyard parts.
> To get around the new RoHS rules I am told the Chinese factory repair
> technique uses recycled dental amalgam yanked from the teeth of cadavers.
> And unlike Jim, these Chinese workers are dedicated to their job. Workers
> often volunteer their own teeth fillings when they run out of dead relatives
> to dig up and harvest teeth from. Hey, what else is free health care good
> for? Yes, it saves the environment and makes everyone a little greener when
> I tell them what I am doing to recycle and help save the planet. And no one
> thinks to call me a cheapskate after hearing all that.

That's because "cheapskate" doesn't quite cover it.  :-)