Originally Posted by Beer Belly

I don't think you guys are looking at this from a corporation perspective. You want your engineers to design things that REQUIRE people to come back to you for repairs. You really think those engineers aren't doing these things on purpose.

If your repair and parts department is ~25% of your overall business, how long is an engineer going to keep their job if they are reducing a huge section of your business?

Combine that with tying to make things as small as possible to keep costs down while meeting every possible regulation for every state in the country, and you end up with your product.



While I agree with you somewhat... it's still a small percentage of folks that actually would still do the work if it were simplified. Those that dont get their hands dirty still likely aren't going to get their hands dirty, no matter how easy the task.