At 09:10 PM 7/10/2006 -0700, BA wrote:
>2)  A rebuilt starter - the obviously broken bits are fixed and the
>old bits are fixed/replaced.
>
>3)  A re-manufactured starter - the outermost case is retained and the
>interior bits are all new.

There's actually a rather curious situation here in the US.  *With
specific application to automotive parts and IIRC only automotive
parts*, under Federal Law the word "rebuilt" means exactly the same
as the word "remanufactured" and their mutual meaning is that broken
things shall be repaired and completely worn-out things shall be
restored.  *PARTIALLY* worn-out things *may* be restored at the
entire discretion of the rebuilder.  I seem to remember thinking as I
read it that they were making it a matter of nice judgment to
distinguish the lofty rebuilt from the sniveling merely repaired.

   I have seen this law with my own eyes, and I have read the letter
from the lobbyist representing the used-parts industry association,
specifically reminding congress on their behalf that under Federal
law those words mean the same so we should be permitted thus-and-so
usage since officially it couldn't possibly be misleading.  So
individual merchants may possibly not, but I'm quite confident the
industry as a whole certainly does know.  The other term defined was
"factory rebuilt" which means that the item in question was rebuilt
in a rebuilding factory.  No implication of whose factory or what it
normally rebuilt on weekdays, sort of thing.

david

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