{"id":891,"date":"2006-06-10T20:24:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T01:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=891"},"modified":"2006-06-10T20:24:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-11T01:24:59","slug":"the-boy-do-i-feel-stupid-troubleshooting-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;boy do I feel stupid&#8221; troubleshooting method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had some trouble with one of his machines and I went out to try to troubleshoot them today. I know what I&#8217;m doing around these machines, and quickly managed to narrow the problem to a recalcitrant servomotor. Very rare, with Fanuc, but not unheard of. The shipping guy who opened up the plant for me was watching- remarked &#8220;you figure this stuff out pretty good&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Took me back to the beginning of my training as a mechanic, at my father&#8217;s side. Dad approached troubleshooting problems in this simple manner: What thing will you feel most stupid if you overlook it?<\/p>\n<p>This applies to about everything. If something doesn&#8217;t work, first ask the stupid questions: Does it have gas? Oil? Water? Is it plugged in? turned on? connected to the cable\/internet\/telephone line? I do a lot of tech support work, or have over the years, and as often as not, I find I can troubleshoot most stuff over the phone by asking those simple questions. <\/p>\n<p>So today, bummed about not being able to get into the class, I back the bike out of the shed and start it up. As usual, it starts immediately, but it&#8217;s back t it&#8217;s old tricks of not wanting to rev beyond idle. <\/p>\n<p>So I get a little pissed, and think of all the things it COULD be, and then I think, Stop. Pull the gas cap.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, it&#8217;s dry as a popcorn fart.I put gas in and it&#8217;s fine. <\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I just think I&#8217;ve worn out my brain. At least I didn&#8217;t tear the fucker apart trying to find a nonexistent problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend had some trouble with one of his machines and I went out to try to troubleshoot them today. I know what I&#8217;m doing around these machines, and quickly managed to narrow the problem to a recalcitrant servomotor. Very rare, with Fanuc, but not unheard of. The shipping guy who opened up the plant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}