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That reminds me of the time I found an appropriately shaped bolt installed in a fuse-holder - presumably someone did not have a replacement fuse and improvised.

That reminds me of the time I found an appropriately shaped bolt installed in a fuse-holder - presumably someone did not have a replacement fuse and improvised. Except that it had been 5 years since the last maintenance in this place and it was a protection panel for a large synchronous generator in a power plant. After you make a heroic temporary fix, please, ensure the permanent fix is applied later!

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
> After you make a heroic temporary fix, please, ensure the permanent fix is applied later! I've known people who would, depending on exactly how bad the failure was, outright refuse to apply temporary fixes precisely because they didn't believe that the business would fix things properly if the issue wasn't forced. And having watched how that particular company handled things, I can't say that they were wrong.
dylan604 6y ago
There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
vangelis 6y ago
It's a slow blow
shuntress 6y ago
I've seen it said on this forum before and it also aligns with my experience: Most fixes that are 'just for now' are actually 'forever'
- e12e 6y ago
  All temporary fixes are not. I also think the converse holds (All permanent fixes are temporary).
Ccecil 6y ago
This chart seems relevant in this case. https://images.app.goo.gl/db84Dmv3sqyVEwfz5 https://images.app.goo.gl/db84Dmv3sqyVEwfz5
- kop316 6y ago
  I am not sure how or why, but your link expanded to this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_replacement_guide/&tbnid=C_FrHpOHb56d9M&vet=1&docid=QYhYet_DbPerxM&w=526&h=445&q=bolt+fuse+rating&source=sh/x/im https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/TtFo... ...it looks like Google is referring to imgur to reddit? In any case, here is the link that it goes to. https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_replacement_guide/ https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_re... https://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago

> After you make a heroic temporary fix, please, ensure the permanent fix is applied later! I've known people who would, depending on exactly how bad the failure was, outright refuse to apply temporary fixes precisely because they didn't believe that the business would fix things properly if the issue wasn't forced. And having watched how that particular company handled things, I can't say that they were wrong.

dylan604 6y ago

There's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.

vangelis 6y ago

It's a slow blow

shuntress 6y ago

I've seen it said on this forum before and it also aligns with my experience: Most fixes that are 'just for now' are actually 'forever'

e12e 6y ago
All temporary fixes are not. I also think the converse holds (All permanent fixes are temporary).

Ccecil 6y ago

This chart seems relevant in this case. https://images.app.goo.gl/db84Dmv3sqyVEwfz5 https://images.app.goo.gl/db84Dmv3sqyVEwfz5

kop316 6y ago
I am not sure how or why, but your link expanded to this: https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg&imgrefurl=https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_replacement_guide/&tbnid=C_FrHpOHb56d9M&vet=1&docid=QYhYet_DbPerxM&w=526&h=445&q=bolt+fuse+rating&source=sh/x/im https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://i.imgur.com/TtFo... ...it looks like Google is referring to imgur to reddit? In any case, here is the link that it goes to. https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_replacement_guide/ https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/26vx0x/handy_fuse_re... https://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg https://i.imgur.com/TtFotWu.jpg