Hey parts vendors, how about INCLUDING A DECENT SET OF INSTRUCTIONS in with the products you sell?

Bobacuda said

One last thing. When I was 19 yrs old, 80% of every military aircraft I was around was completely maintained and repaired by other 19-23 yr olds with very limited experience that were not professional aircraft mechanics or electronic techs, but we had DAMN good FSM’s and instructions to work with. The contractor’s that built the aircraft and systems were required to provide that info.

I’m willing to bet it’s still that way with military aircraft.

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There's entire careers built writing those manuals and there's training and knowledge that goes along with those manuals. Apples and oranges.

In a perfect world, those types of manuals would definitely accompany every item sold. But people whine about socket sets costing more than $50, you think they're going to spend 2-3x on an item because of the manual they get to toss before they install it? I'd bet not.

That's the core part of my point: people are too cheap to pay for quality, at any cost. We have members here who literally advise people to buy knockoff items to save a few hundred bucks instead of supporting companies doing what we wish all of them would. Most people would sell their own mother's down the river to save a couple bucks, it's sad. But when that's reality, what we get us what we're getting.