Remember when you had to carry a whole book of wiring diagrams for every motor?

Now I just pull up the PDF on my phone in 10 seconds. Anyone else still have their old code books from the 90s taking up space in the truck?

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susan_brown801mo ago

My buddy Mike was on a service call last year for some old industrial motor. He spent an hour flipping through his greasy 1992 code book in the van, trying to find the right diagram. The pages were stuck together from some soda spill. He finally found it, but the whole section was torn out. Had to call the shop and wait for someone to text him a picture. Total nightmare compared to now.

wendy_murphy161mo ago

That's why I keep a clean PDF copy on my phone as backup.

riley_king161mo ago

Yeah, the old greasy manual thing is a special kind of pain. I've seen guys use a wrench to prop open a page because the binding gave out. Or trying to read pencil notes from 1987 that just say "bad." A clean PDF search beats trying to unstick pages that are basically glued together with old coffee and mystery grease.