Originally Posted by extrashaky

And that's exactly what she did. When the bolt broke, there were people suggesting that she had been in over her head from the beginning and that we shouldn't have encouraged her to take on a job she didn't know how to do. Well, she WAS in over her head, but you never learn if you don't try. I have broken things while working on them and made the situation worse. In doing so, I usually learn something valuable, like how not to break things. Even if that ends up costing me more time and money, that's okay, because what I'm really paying for is an education. I know exactly how that happens. You don't have time to dive into the whole job because of work and life getting in the way, and then suddenly you DO have time to dive into the whole job and get it all done in a weekend. I think I recall her saying that some of the delay was time related, and some of it had to do with waiting for her paycheck so she could go buy parts. I don't think the timeline is really that unusual, just that some of the posters here are impatient.

Originally Posted by tracyk

Congrats WNJE!