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From: Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Hearing Aid Repairs
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Date: 10 Oct 90 03:01:59 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

  I find it hard to believe that use _parts_ are being used for the repair of 
hearing aids Wayne.  I can understand a repair service having a used circut 
board that they have repaired from a previous job and swaping it with yours to 
get the job done quickly, then repair the guts from your aid to put into the 
next one they get.  But the actual repair itself doesn't make sense to use 
used parts; if a microphone element is corroded you don't replace it with 
someone elses corroded element -you put in a new element.  The same thing for 
resistors, small electronic parts, and plug sockets.  Removing the old parts 
just to reuse them would cost more than the new parts (unless they are using 
slave labor to do the work). 

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