Wow. 12 days is a long time without power and I can well understand the
decision to buy a generator. But I'm surprised you could even find one.
Maybe you had to travel a long way to get it.
Chuck Norcutt
On 11/14/2012 7:10 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
> I posted this a few days ago:
>
> "Good to be back. Power was out for 12 days. Two trees down on our
> property, a third leaning at 30 degrees over our patio. One old pine
> tree fell where I would normally park my car. We got lots of usage from
> our LED AA powered flashlights and then invested in a 7000 watt generator.
>
> I've attached a small pic though I don't know if it'll go through. "
>
> That kept the message from going through (limit 40K).
>
>
>
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> On 11/13/2012 6:15 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Hey, I'm glad to see you're here. I was concerned you were without
>> power after Sandy. I checked the Long Island Power Authority's outage
>> map and saw there were still several hundred customers in Huntington
>> without power. But maybe you were without power and just got it back.
>>
>> This reminds me that I was at Sands Point, Long Island in 1976 when the
>> eye of Hurricane Holly passed overhead. Looks like Huntington is maybe
>> 10 miles away so you probably remember that one as well.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/2012 6:56 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
>>> We have a 3 day turnaround.
>>>
>>> ___________________________________
>>> John Hermanson | CPS, Inc.
>>> 21 South Ln., Huntington NY 11743
>>> 631-424-2121 | www.zuiko.com
>>> Olympus OM Service since 1977
>>> Gallery: www.zuiko.com/album/index.html
>>>
>>> On 11/8/2012 6:53 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>>> Another good article from LensRentals.com. On price and turnaround for
>>>> repairs Tamron looks excellent and Olympus looks fairly good. Not so
>>>> good if you own Nikon or Sony. One interesting observation is that
>>>> large, fast lenses have higher repair rates than their slower brethren.
>>>> The highest frequency of repair items tend to be big, f/2.8 and
>>>> really
>>>> big f/4 zooms. I guess AF motors and drive gears suffer the effects of
>>>> moving large masses. There are also comments about specific weaknesses
>>>> of certain lenses and bodies. There is a very high frequency of repair
>>>> on the Canon 5D Mk III and Nikon D800s bodies and the Nikon 70-200 VRII
>>>> for a tripod foot that's too weak and is easily bent. If you're in the
>>>> market for new (or even used) gear this is a recommended read.
>>>>
>>>> ps: I guess Tamron looks good on repairs since John Hermanson is now
>>>> working there. :-)
>>>>
>>>> <http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2012/09/lensrentals-repair-data-january-july-2012#more-9311>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chuck Norcutt
>>>>
>>>
>
>
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