Anybody find a little spring?
Back in the 1980s I was young, single, and renting part of a friend’s house. She was a Grandma, and the little grandkids would come over routinely.
One day the VCR broke down. (The VCR was essential for kid cartoon-watching, and there would be misery if we couldn’t get it fixed.)
I had never fixed much of anything; I’m not really mechanically inclined. (I was amazed at the age of 12, when I found out what a radiator key was, and learned to use it: “Oh, THAT’s why my Granny’s radiators don’t work!”)
But, I digress.
I wasn’t mechanical, but I knew Sewing Machines! from many years of having to fiddle with my own old ones.
I figured, How much more complicated can a VCR be, than a Sewing Machine? So, while my friend was out, I opened the gizmo up, and checked out its insides. I didn’t think I could fix it, I just thought I’d have a ‘look-see’.
After a while, I found a lonesome, very tiny spring, laying on the bottom, divorced from any connection it may have had before. I looked to find something like it somewhere; and I found another spring attached on the roundy part on the opposite side from where the lonesome spring was found. So, I stuck the spring back on where it appeared to belong.
The VCR worked for a couple of years longer.
Most things that you think you can’t do, just require that you START.
-JT