Twelve Years Old, Parts Discontinued: A Rescue Foundation Nearly Scrapped a Working Machine
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Twelve Years Old, Parts Discontinued: A Rescue Foundation Nearly Scrapped a Working Machine
'Discontinued' does not always mean unrepairable. It means you need a technician who knows which current parts share the same engineering values — not just a shop that checked a catalogue and found nothing.
In many Thai communities, the people who go out to fog for residents are not only municipalities and sub-district offices. Rescue foundations and volunteer groups do this work too, without any regular budget.
Their equipment usually comes from donations, which means the thermal fogger in use may be more than ten years old and, very often, a discontinued model.
This article tells the true story of a rescue foundation in Nakhon Sawan that nearly scrapped an entire machine over one small component, and explains what options exist when parts are discontinued.
