I don't agree that "most of the satisfaction is finding out what the
actual problem was...."    While that is sometimes sort of satisfying, for
me the most satisfaction comes when I can get quickly past the problem when
my van (or scooter, or racecar, or whatever) either quit working properly or
refused to work at all and thwarted my plans for that period of time...

  If I can 'throw a part at it" and get on with my life...very
satisfying..If I have to spend hours with a voltmeter, schematics,
digitizing ohms and analyzing micro signals...I find that rather
tedious...And when a problem occurs that is caused by a very obscure
coincidence of  circumstances, one that results in large expenditures of
time to trace and fix....When I finally figure one of those problems out
rather than satisfaction...I just go..."Great, now I can sell this POS and
get something easy to work on instead"...
  Don Hanson
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> hi,
> re
> "most of the satisfaction of troubleshooting is finding out what the actual
> problem was instead of solving the problem by throwing parts at it."
>
> I'll say !
>
>