If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It!
Eric Keibler Jul 31, 2009
Sierra Scooter
Those words ran through my head this week as we hosted a Xscooter Annual Service Clinic at the store. Geoff Streitel and Kelly Plato were on hand to allow the group to repair their scooters. I should have know that the evening would not proceed as smoothly as we had hoped when the video portion of the PowerPoint presentation would not work properly.
After a little tinkering and rebooting my laptop, we abandoned the digital projector and just used the laptop monitor itself. So far so good, right? We continued with the steps for breaking down the rear-end which is where more problems presented themselves. The screw holding to lower hubs in
place were frozen and while we eventually were able to remove Geoff’s without further damage, Kelly’s scooter was another matter. We ended up breaking off all of the screw pillars from the hub and still could not get the hub off. So, one unit down; it is off to the manufacturer for repair leaving us all one to look at.
The remainder of Geoff’s repair went alright, with some grunting and groaning while more things were removed with difficulty and new things replaced. Of course, we are not entirely sure everything worked properly – Geoff has to test it in fresh water to make sure the new seal does not leak. He should be doing it today at Beautiful Blue Lagoon. He and Kelly were planning on going out to test their scooters before Truk, but now Geoff will be testing and Kelly will be swimming.
I know Kelly is saying to himself, “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but it really did need to have the seal replaced before it had a major lean and the bearings got wet.
Congratulations for the group for completing the Annual Service Training program. The new technicians are Geoff Streitel, Kelly Plato, Ashton Arsement, Barney Corbin, Jordon Hicks, Wade Sparks and yours truly, Eric Keibler.
