Points well made and taken Philip. Having said that, when the chips are down, I'll open the case in the trunk, take out the hard copy Maint. manual and the Illustrated Parts Manual [even if it's out of date] and fix the problem at the side of the road or know why I can't. All the fancy electronic whiz bang devices are only a single solar flair from failure. Drop your beloved laptop or IPhone off the back of a truck and then drop the tattered hard copy manual off the same truck... pick them both up and use them. Which one survived?
Copy??... try this, Buy a hard copy, remove the spine so it becomes loose leaf, punch the pages for a 5 hole binder and then remove the desired pages, make copies, replace the originals in the binder, take the copies to the car and do the work. Grease spots? no prob.. make new copies from the "master"... IPC pictures to look at while you are removing the problem assembly? No problem.. You will be amazed at how helpful it is when the assembly picture is in front of you in hard copy. Ok... so I give up.... call up the pages on your laptop after you fight MBZ system that doesn't work.... print the pages and use them..... we'll call it a "win". On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Fmiser <fmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > G Mann wrote: > > > Anyone remember the good old days when you actually had a hard > > copy book that you could look at? Ahhhhhh, the good old > > days. Funny thing... that book never "crashed" and I could > > carry it to the car and lay it on the fender while sorting out > > what went to what, even if the electricity went out. > > But what a pain to copy! > > And really tough to look at it from 15,000 miles away. > > And if the text I'm looking for is not in the index, searching > for one word is a very, very, slow long process. > > We* are spoiled. We won't be happy with either the old or the > new. They each have disadvantages and we will complain when > using either one. > > *"We" meaning collectively us humans. > > -- Philip > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
