Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, On an amusing note, a recent TV commercial here showed a ball-point pen designed and developed for NASA at a cost of millions, and able to write in a vacuum and weightless environment - as a comparison they showed the Russian counterpart - a graphite pencil. :-) Like Ted Grant always says KISS. Douglas Bill Smith wrote: > Although I'm no authority on WWII weapons, it is legendary......... and > fortunate that overdesign of many of their arms and vehicles were somewhat > of a cause of their defeat too. > > Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp@gmx.de> wrote: Rick, I must agree on the > reparability of most German built household > appliances, but be thankful you didn't have a Miele tumbler/condensation > drier! :-) > Our third in 6 years is now a Siemens. > And after many asthmatic German vacuum cleaners - taking one apart to > fix it is like defusing a bomb - we finally splashed out on a Dyson, now > THAT is a good machine even though the design looks like something out > of Star Wars, and you don't need to search for one of ten thousand > dust-bags made to fit. > Douglas > > Rick Dykstra wrote: > >> I spent today slowly pulling our Miele dishwasher apart, to figure out >> why its not filling fully. I think it's the solenoid. Not just any >> solenoid, but part of a failsafe twin solenoid leak-proof disaster >> safe design. And having seen the insides of this thing now, by golly >> what a beautifully designed well made, repairable bit of gear. An >> absolute contrast to the Australian made Vulcan gas heater I pulled >> apart last winter (worn out fan). And the Miele vacuum cleaner I >> pulled apart last year was also great to work on (worn out carbon >> brushes). >> >> So why is it that Germans are such good industrial designers? It's as >> if they know their work will be appreciated when customers finally >> need to fix the thing. :-) >> >> Impressed I am. >> >> Rick. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > --------------------------------- > Don't pick lemons. > See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >