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Using like-new items?

Farmboy
What do you think about using used / like-new items (such as CBs), available on sites such as this: https://www.facebook.com/groups/749714058480262/permalink/3026955394089439/

I don't use them myself, just wondering how advisable it is.


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    This is interesting and entertaining stuff but to bring us back on topic - (yawn) . . .


    In the dim distant past I have found electrical contractors reluctant to fit wiring accessories supplied by the customer, unless literally still in wrapper. I suggest that the reason is that a decent contractor will wish to offer some guarantee on their work. They cannot pass on a guarantee on second-hand goods, particularly if not supplied by themselves.


    I know of cases of people buying wiring accessories then asking an electrician to fit, because they like that particular style of accessory. My advice would be to specify the make and model of accessory and ask the contractor to procure it for them. The subterfuge is that the contractor can probably buy more cheaply at trade rates, but in practice it makes things a whole lot easier for the contractor to guarantee good long-term outcome.
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    Farmboy:
    Tomgunn:

    Hi all, well... I asked this question, some months ago, and I feel it's better to use new ones even though not everything can be 100% right. I think we've all changed, something or other, along the way out of the back of our vans.


    regards, Tom




    Sorry T, I wasn't trying to steal your thunder (I should've done a forum search first). I just came across the site and thought it's not a good idea to use acquired used goods such as CBs as, other than a simple functional test, I couldn't verify their effectiveness in fault conditions, so wanting to sleep at night, I'd never do it. It could be argued what's the difference between a faulty new device and a faulty used device, as they're both dysfunctional, but at least I'd installed the new one in good faith - unless as others have said, declare it to the owner, but I wouldn't like to install it then either.


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    Oh wow! I didn't mean you were stealing any thunder... (all my thunders gone, haha),  just pointing out that I had asked, (really, what's an easy question to answer), before... carry on young one!


    regards... Tom


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    Sparkingchip:

    It is actually very quick nought to sixty, but does sod all after that.


    There comes point where you don't want to be trying to use the van for everything.

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    Hiya, love your truck, haha!!! Looks like Bronkoes one out of Fools and horses... look nice and clean, too!!


    Cheers... Tom]


     


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    Is that a coffin under the tarp?
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    No coughing allowed since March!


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    perspicacious:

    No coughing allowed since March!


    Regards


    BAD


    "It wasn't the cough that carried you off... it was the coffin they carried you off in" (SORRY, couldn't resist).


    regards, (koff), Tom


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