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Are frayed power adaptors safe to use?
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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1763701" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Yep, same here. My first thought is probably both unfair and incorrect but I immediately think here is someone who has no respect for the device, it's monetary worth, it's personal value or the concepts of care and maintenance.</p><p>On the other hand I know field workers, anthropologists and surveyors who are constantly in the open where their device is jerked out of a bag or plastic box used and stuffed back in rear of a 4 wheel drive till the next stop. Their devices are constantly exposed to the elements, dirt, rain, salt, insects and dirty hands. Their screens are scratched and their cables are frayed and nicked, when they wear out they just replace them and treat the new one in exactly the same way.</p><p>It horrifies me but it's only a different attitude. To these people it is a tool and maintenance is only about function, not appearance (although I would argue it's the same thing). Keeping the chain clean on my bike for example is as much about function as appearance. Different horses for different courses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1763701, member: 204485"] Yep, same here. My first thought is probably both unfair and incorrect but I immediately think here is someone who has no respect for the device, it's monetary worth, it's personal value or the concepts of care and maintenance. On the other hand I know field workers, anthropologists and surveyors who are constantly in the open where their device is jerked out of a bag or plastic box used and stuffed back in rear of a 4 wheel drive till the next stop. Their devices are constantly exposed to the elements, dirt, rain, salt, insects and dirty hands. Their screens are scratched and their cables are frayed and nicked, when they wear out they just replace them and treat the new one in exactly the same way. It horrifies me but it's only a different attitude. To these people it is a tool and maintenance is only about function, not appearance (although I would argue it's the same thing). Keeping the chain clean on my bike for example is as much about function as appearance. Different horses for different courses. [/QUOTE]
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