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Old boiler logs made me realize how much we lean on screens now
I was digging through some paperwork at the shop last week, trying to find the service history on a 1960s unit we're taking out. There was a whole drawer of handwritten log cards, one guy named Pete who kept them for like 18 years straight. Every call, every pressure check, every weld repair, all in pencil with his own shorthand. I spent an hour just reading through them to trace a recurring tube leak, and I found the exact date it happened three times over a decade. Now we all walk around with tablets and apps for everything, which is great until the battery dies or the wifi drops in a basement. Has anyone else run into old paper records that actually saved your ass on a job, or do I just work in a museum of a shop?
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tara_stone4228d ago
There's a legal thing people forget about too. Paper logs are real proof when a unit fails and lawyers come asking. Handwriting, dates, pencil marks, that stuff holds up in court in a way that a cloud file does when the app company goes under or the tech swipes past the wrong screen. We started scanning Pete-style cards but kept the originals locked in a file box for exactly that reason.
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