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Fought a sticky hinge on a walk-in cooler door for 45 minutes before checking the obvious thing
The door at the deli counter kept sticking shut, so I grabbed a can of WD-40 and spent almost an hour spraying and working it back and forth. Still stuck. Then the new guy walks over, points to the hinge pin that was a quarter inch out of its slot, and taps it back in with a hammer. Door worked fine after that. So here's the debate: do you always start with the simple mechanical fix before trying to lubricate everything, or is it smarter to rule out the obvious stuff first? Because I feel like I wasted a whole shift on something that took ten seconds to fix.
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keithbennett1mo ago
Haha oh man, I've done the exact same thing! Spent a good 20 minutes wrestling with a stuck lock on a storage shed door once before realizing the latch was just sitting crooked. Felt like such a dummy after that one.
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the_rowan1mo ago
Three times now I've tried to open my front door with the wrong key while my wife just stands there watching. You'd think after 15 years I'd have it figured out by now, right?
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