I remember reading on this group about someone that has a repair for a
Explorer console. I am unable to remember who or what. Could someone
please refresh my memory.
Thanks,
Steve

www.shareamemory.com IIRC
Bill
"Esteban" <swanasek (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

"Bill Hall" <bhallc21 (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote

post that I am concerned with the leather on the console lid that the driver
can rest his right elbow on as he drives. My console with the temp &
compass still works great.
Steve

Sorry Estaban, I had not checked that site recently. The "owner" used to
have the console kit on that site! Don't know what may have occurred, but
apparently now it is available at the alternate site www.fixyourford.com.
Checked it out and it is there. Used to be 19.95, now appears to be $24.95
!!(inflation :>) )
Bill
"Esteban" <swanasek (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote

Hi Bill,
Thanks for the response and link. Just what I was looking for.
I have one of Duane's radio fixes in my Ford...still working great after 4
months. With the great service I received from him from the radio part, I
will give him a try with the console repair.
Thanks again,
Steve


"Bill Hall" <bhallc21 (AT) verizon (DOT) net> wrote

Esteban wrote:

Although the radio fix works (usually), the guy is a swindler. I
wouldn't send a dollar his way for a radio fix, a console repair kit, or
anything else.

"Beryl" <terrapin (AT) coolbits (DOT) net> wrote

Please explain more Beryl

Esteban wrote:
Someone, I don't know who, figured out the cause of the failures in
these Ford Explorer radios and posted the repair info online, I don't
know where.

Mr. "Shareamemory_but_don't_share_someone_else's_free_ information" found
that information.
He said so himself, in a post to this group years ago.

Mr. Shareamemory began also sharing that other person's knowledge freely
on his own web site... begging for donations in the beginning.

Then he pulled his free page, and began his paypal business of charging
money for the info.

A few people from this group, already knowing what the radio fix was,
continued talking about and freely sharing the info themselves, which
cut into Mr. Shareamemory's new business.

Mr. Shareamemory began having his pictures of the problematic circuit
board removed from free hosting sites whenever someone posted them for
others to see, had his own free page removed from The Wayback Machine
internet archives so nobody could find it any more, and even
impersonated an attorney and sent bullying email threats to somebody who
posted their own story and pics of their own radio repair job on their
own web page.

In short, he stole someone else's work and made it his own, and works
diligently to prevent anybody from benefiting from it without paying him.


BTW, I have Mr. Shareamemory's old *free* fixit page, complete with
photos, still saved on my hard drive. I consider it still free, in the
public domain, just as it was when he posted it. I'd share it freely if
I knew how and where I could do it, without getting harassed and
threatened by the chump.



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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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