I attempt to fix everything and usually succeed if it is mechanical in nature, sometimes I fail if involves circuit boards however. I will spend hours whittling a part out of scrap steel or aluminum on a milling machine to replace a 2 cent plastic part that broke on a $10.00 toy of my nephews. Yeah, I know it does not make sense, but I enjoy the challenge of making old stuff work like new again (unless it is an Audi which I will never own again
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I have a bunch of cars that were old and high mileage when I bought them. All are good drivers, most have been re-painted at least once by me. For at least the past 15 years, I have not paid anyone to do any kind of service or repair on any of my cars except for changing tires, balancing wheels and turning rotors on occasion. One of these days I will pick up a tire mounting machine and a balancer so that I may be forever free from having to pay numbnuts to screw up my perfectly restored wheels.
