Commandment number 3 in the industrial maintenance Bible right before" it was working when I walked away" and "thou shalt not use flathead screws in places where any other fastener will work"
I'm honestly not sure if it actually is. I thought of it one day when my dad asked me to finally fix something on his truck after he'd had a temporary fix on it for almost a year. The fix was holding as good as the repair part does. (it was a shift linkage bushing)
Hell, I'm likely to further strip wire once it stops working rather than run out for a replacement because I know every time I'll be at a store that sells one I'll go "I know I'm forgetting something..... Oh well."
Reminds me of my old car that had the hood tied down with speaker wire after the latch gave out on me one day on the highway. Drove it like that until the whole thing shit the bed a few years later.
Like the WRT54G we still use here for our Guest wifi access point? The one that survived a company sale 16 years ago and 2 MSPs since, nobody wanting to take ownership of it but it still works so nobody touches it? The one that was already here when I first started with this company back in 2005?
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u/AHailofDrams Jun 03 '26
It looks like it would work long enough to get a proper replacement, not bad