On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Eric Zeno wrote:

>    This in itself is not always cheap.  Go buy a spring compressor
> and you have more money into the job, than paying someone.

You *could* rent one.  But there are certainly some jobs where it makes
sense to have someone else do the work.  An extreme example would be a
rebuild on a manual transmission.  None of us would ever recoup the
expense of the tooling to do one of those just in money saved by
rebuilding our own trannies.

David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia
'86 Volvo 240DL wagon