Re: Any difference beetween: Refurbished vc Rebuild vc Remanufactured?

In article <42a2641e$0$11958$afc38c87@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
hemyd <myd!!!hen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It's a cynical view, but one I fully agree with. When I started my job
> as a typewriter technician at IBM in 1975 we were offering a
> reconditioning service which involved the replacement of all wearable
> components. The service was quite expensive, but you ended up with an
> as-new typewriter.

> At about that time some other companies offered a much cheaper
> "refurbishing" service. They'd put the typewriter through a solvent
> bath, then re-lubricate it - that was that! You ended up with a machine
> which looked brand spanking new - but was a worn out old heap of junk.

> Whatever the service being offered - refurbishing, reconditioning, etc.,
> I'd want to know exactly what work was done, and some guarrantee of
> such work.

The fact is that most things like consumer electronics these days are made
in near fully automated factories - and perhaps in low wage countries.

So to strip and fully recondition them then reassemble could well cost
more in labour than a new one. Some things you *know* will deteriorate
with age - CRTs etc. And capacitors. But much solid state electronics
doesn't have a defined life. The solder however may well have.

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