by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
Sometimes the cheapest and simplest part of a system is the one that fails and you may have to buy half a dozen of them to find one that works.<\/strong><\/p>\n I had a bad experience repairing that large appliance in the bathroom. Did you know that you can crawl under a toilet? You can, and it is as bad as it sounds.<\/p>\n After four or five hours of work (I removed the water tank from the toilet bowl, replaced the connecting parts, and attached it again) the problem I was trying to fix still existed. More research on the Internet, that bastion of knowledge known as YouTube, indicated that the problem was with the flapper.<\/p>\n The toilet flapper is that small rubbery-like object that sits atop a large hole. Its function in life is to stop water from flowing out of the tank. It is also the cheapest and simplest part in the system.<\/p>\n What are the odds of having four flappers that don\u2019t seal the hole? The odds are small, but, as they say, greater than zero. Well, I had four flappers that didn\u2019t seal the hole. Water leaked around the seal.<\/p>\n The fifth flapper I had\u2014don\u2019t ask how many trips to Home Depot were required\u2014worked.<\/p>\n Lessons Learned:<\/strong><\/p>\n Sometimes it is the cheapest and simplest part in the system that breaks.<\/p>\n When you go to the logistics depot, a.k.a., Home Depot in this case, obtain extra parts.<\/p>\n Don\u2019t assume that \u201cbrand new\u201d parts work, especially if they only cost $3 at the end of the retail chain (10 cents to make).<\/p>\n Crawl under a toilet at your own peril.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips Sometimes the cheapest and simplest part of a system is the one that fails and you may have to buy half a dozen of them to find one that works. I had a bad experience repairing that large appliance in the bathroom. Did you know that you can crawl under a toilet? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,99,238,58],"tags":[171,214,240,178],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adapting","category-agility","category-analysis","category-systems","tag-adapting","tag-agility","tag-analysis","tag-systems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}