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I know the feeling. Lately, I try to do most of my car repairs myself. Especially on one particular car that I use on race tracks. I just don't trust people as much as I used to. We are living in a world where artisans who care about the customer are endangered species. There are bright moments though. My best friend knows this elderly man in Miami who is amazing with mechanical timepieces. But that is a rarity. Just the other day I took a nearly century old Junghans clock to get lubed and cleaned to have it returned with two missing nuts. These are impossible to get and the guy tried to bs me by saying he received it that way. Oh well. It's the crappy world we live in. In Europe, and especially the UK, there are still people with skills. But in quickbuck USA, forget it. Give it a few more years and it will be a distant memory. Nobody wants to spend time learning any craft here unless it is litigation.