OT / Instruction sheets are not soft enough

To wipe my rear with.

Today we installed three overhead doors with a different brand name than usual. They can kiss my rear if they think like most companies that one instruction manual should cover 200 options. And yes, oh sure its ...guess what options we sent you! just go figure it out.

We install alot of different equipment, and by golley gee if they can charge you high prices, why not have a computer that will print the instructions for what the heck they sold me! Not a universal book that has so many many options.

Also why don't they look beyond the local grade school when hiring some one to draw the illistrations.

While I'm a rantin anyone here understand those decals on your equipment--other than the throttle with the rabbit and turtle? Ya realy have to use your imagination to understand some of them, and most are figured out by trial and error.

By the way I have more than once taken the salesman that sold me the equipment to install and told them to highlight the instructions that refer to the equipment he sold me. They seem to always have a appointment they just have to keep, or----its all in the book and very easy to understand, but I just don't have time to...

I once was installing feed augers, 5 of them in a pile, and all systems were exactly the same length etc. We got three done, and simply could not get the flex auger to go over the shaft of the drive unit on the other two. They were overhead, and very limited room, five below zero ...you all know what I'm talking about.

Anyway after a full day of grinding, removing, reversing etc. We found out that the company had changed suppliers and the two of the flex augers were the wrong size for the old drives. Good thing I couldn't get my hands on the idiots. I probably would have taken a whoopin as my arms were so tired from reaching overhead and messing with it.

I will go take my meds now and calm down.

I helped my son put in the overhead doors for his new building. Doors 9' wide by 10' high with torson springs. Got the first one done by carefully sorting thru what sounds like the same installation sheets you had. Thought we were experts on the second one. Turns out, on the second one, the spring assembly was a mirror image of the first door. Had to take the spring down and reverse it. Third door was identical to number one. They all look alike, unless you stare at the spring assemblies for awhile. And they work perfect. . .

Paul

I am with you on this one. Better yet sometimes they do not even show you how to diffeentiate what options you have... Just trial and error...

Aaron

I'm trying to figure what NE and IA stand for. Perhaps they could be used in the instructions for Not Exactly and If Applicable. LoL Ever buy some of the furniture you put together? I don't think any curse words existed until instruction manuals were invented. Dave

See, you need to tear out all the sections that are in SPANISH, FRENCH, and CHINESE and gawd knows what else first, then that manual won't seem so thick ha ha seriously, I agree with you, and it is just getting worse, before long it will be a slip of paper in the box that states "operation maintenance and repair are self-evident, no parts are available past 30 days of purchase date"...