Security Storm Door Closures
Recently, I received a call to service a recently installed pneumatic door closure, and coding a keypad, the previous handyman wasn’t able to code the newly purchased keypad lockset,
I started with the pneumatic closure,
Sometimes, understanding the physics of something can be helpful,
A concerned mom of the daughter who called me, was distraught over the “bang” the door made everytime it closed, the door closure worked fine, allowing the door to close slowly, except in the last few inches, it slammed, creating a very loud “bang”
The neighbors had a newborn and the loud bang could cause a nuisance for said newborn,
I studied the pysics of the closure and realized that if the arm was moved farther away from the closure, it wouldn’t slam at the end,
I kept the pneumatic part of the closure in the same place and temporarily moved the arm over, it worked!
However,
the door wouldn’t fully open,
Studied the physics once again, and moved everything over, making the pneumatic part of the closure closer to the side of the door, used the same distance from the arm to the closure, and the door opened all the way, and no longer slammed
Happy Homeowner, (and happy baby! š)
When it came to coding, one must turn to the instuctions, which in my case the information was structured in a way where one needed to delve further into the information/instructions, to find the information,
After about 5 minutes I was ready to begin, I remove the inside plate, with my allan wrench, allowing access to a button that needed to pressed before the code could be created, up to 8 codes could be created by pressing said button 1 time for the 1st code, 2 times for the second code, etc,
It was very simple, once the the instuctions were found an followed,
The total project took two hours, and the client was thrilled,
let’s talk about value for a second, and why one may pay more for the same service, I’m sure the original handyman might have been the lower price, but the job was not complete, and required another visit and an additional expense,
I’m going to explain value through a story,
Once there was a nuclear power plant that was losing $250,000, per day, so, the plant hired an expert, probably the more expensive option , to solve the challenge,
The “expert” walked around for 2 days, and at the end of the 2nd day, he put a red X on a gauge, and instucted the plant engineer to repair/replace the machine connected to the gauge and the problem would be solved,
He was correct and the plant was no longer losing a quater million dollars a day,
The next day the Plant received a bill for 10k, the plants accounting department seemed a little confused and spoke with the expert and said, it seemed like an awful lot just for walking around a factory for 2 days and putting a red X on a gauge, they asked the expert if he could itemize his work,
2 days later the plant received an itemized bill and it read as follows….
$1.00 to put and X on a gauge
$9,999.00 to know where to put the X
Think about it, I’m sure the expert cost more but he knew where to put the X,
There’s an old adage that states, that its better to invest more than you plan. than to spend less than you should,
When you invest more than planned, spread out over time, is pennies,
But, when you spend less than you should, very often you lose everything,
I’ll end with
Why settle for the get by, when in the long run, the good cost less!
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