Sometimes you just have to be amazed at how easily some things can be fixed when you just do it yourself. A prime example: A few days ago, the visor on my wife's car wouldn't stay up any more. Somehow, the resistance was broken and it would just flop down and hang right in your face. At first, we simply taped it to the ceiling, but, with all the sun and the reflections on winter roads, that wasn't a solution for long.
So, finally, I took the car to the local Opel dealer. Now, I should tell you that the visor consists of two parts: the axis around which it turns, and the visor proper. Broken as it was, you could easily pull the visor part from the axis and see that a little nose on the plastic axis was missing. "Small part, can't cost a whole lot," I thought. Of course, I was proven wrong. At the Opel dealership, they told me the visor was only available as a complete unit # for the price of 50 €!
Coming home, I once more took the broken visor off its axis. I tightly wound some adhesive tape several times around the axis, making it thicker. Using light force, I pushed the visor back on its axis, and: voilà! The additional thickness provides a new resistance and the visor once more stays in any position you put it.
I considered selling the rest of my adhesive tape to the Opel dealer. I wonder whether he might want to buy it at 500 € # still a bargain for hime, since he could easily fix more than ten units ...
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Nov 29
If you are a pastor, you will like reading L. Gregory Jones' Christian Century article on the job description of pastors. You can pick yours, but I hope it won't be this one:
WANTED: Person to fill position that involves important but undervalued work; exact job description unclear. Long hours; must work weekends and holidays. Low pay. Master's degree required; doctorate preferred. Must be accomplished at multitasking, including running an organization without clear authority to do so. The successful candidate will be skilled as a public speaker, manager, politician and therapist, and will devote significant time each week to pastoral visits. The position reports to multiple bosses.
HT to Brad Anderson, again.
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