Preventative Maintenance Quotes

A washing machine needs constant maintenance. It doesn't want any harm. It wants tranquility, and you need someone to - you're not going to harm it by continuously monitoring it and adjusting it.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

You have to fix something when it first appears.

Not causing trouble, not touching anything, fixing the primus.

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Mending the fence when one loses a sheep is still not too late.

In order that the mortar in the joints may not suffer from frosts, drench it with oil-dregs every year before winter begins. Thus treated, it will not let the hoarfrost enter it.

You've got to motivate the fans and the people to get your teeth cleaned. It's called daily hygiene. You've got to take care of yourself.

We spend a lot of money fixing things after they're broken.

People blame me because these water mains break, but I ask you, if the water mains didn't break, would it be my responsibility to fix them then?

Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.

… to rectify the errors that will creep in through lapse of time, or alteration of situation.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

We should not be waiting until trains derail, bridges collapse and people die to adequately fund our transportation infrastructure.

You don't want to fix things that aren't broken, so that kind of stops you from make changes.

It's like, what if you get a set of tires that aren't balanced right or a driveshaft that's vibrating. That could create a problem. You try to think of every possible scenario of what can make you uncomfortable and try to come up with a solution for it.

I buy a tractor two years ago, and four-fifths of the tractor manual is about not tipping over, not raising the bucket high enough to hit high-tension wire... not killing yourself, basically. And in that manual, I found out - and it cost me a thousand dollars - that when the tractor is new, 10 hours into use of the tractor, you have to re-torque the lug nuts. If you don't, you will oval the holes. This is buried between the moron warnings. I never found it. I take the tractor in for its regular servicing, and they say my wheels are gone. How am I supposed to know that? "It's in the manual."