What does "canned fix" mean? - Page 1
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author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 10:35:49 am
content: What does the term "canned fix" mean?Hope someone can help me here.. :-)Erik

author: deephaven
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 10:57:23 am
content: It's usually a small tin with a ring pull which contains a quantity of cannabis.Sometimes it's used as a term to describe a standard fix for something, maybe a software bug or a known cure for fixing that hardware fault that occurs on a particular model of something.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 11:53:49 am
content: Sometimes it means a fix to a problem that simply involves buying something ready made off the shelf.Reference to buying a can of food.eg, "John keeps using the soldering iron when i need it, time for a canned fix, second iron ordered"

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 01:24:01 pm
content: Thanks !!Great help and thanks again!!Good carma is sendt your way!!

author: Fraser
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 07:06:35 pm
content: Often used in connection with power supply rebuild kits consisting of uprated components and capacitors. Very common in the Satellite receiver industry. No diagnostics needed, you just replace ALL the components that may be faulty. Fast and efficient for the customer but not as fulfilling for the keen tech. I always like to know what failed

author: westfw
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 08, 2013, 08:42:51 pm
content: I would expect a sort of all-inclusive repair for a particular (common) problem. For example, those iPhone screen replacement kits that come with spudgers, suction cups, and the other "special" tools, plus instructions, needed to effect the repair, in addition to the screen itself. Or the "ink jet refill" kits that include a syringe, drill, and magic chip on a pcb in addition to ink. Or a SW virus removal tool.Specifically, analogous to the difficulty of preparing canned food, vs cooking "from scratch."

author: NiHaoMike
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 02:08:00 am
content: In HVAC, it is a canned product (leak stop or whatever) that "fixes" the problem without really fixing it.

author: MacAttak
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 07:47:40 am
content: As I have heard the term used, it generally refers to a "prescribed fix" for a known problem that does not require additional troubleshooting or diagnosis effort. Someone else has solved the problem, and it occurs frequently enough that there is now a "standard" solution for it. The "canned fix" is the documented series of steps (possibly including replacement hardware parts) used to resolve that specific problem.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 02:33:48 pm
content: Yep, canned fix. For problem xyz : replace all these parts , or replace this board. Done. These are repair instructions for frequent problems where someone made a kit woth instructions what to do. No need to think. Simply follow the instructions and it will work. Most of these things are more economical (even though you may be replacing non defective parts in the process) as you save the time required for troubleshooting it at component level.

author: nitro2k01
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 06:25:52 pm
content: Quote from: deephaven on August 08, 2013, 10:57:23 amHa. Are you just making that up as a joke, or is it a thing?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 06:34:01 pm
content: Sure! Around here, the canned fix of choice, rather than cannabis, is methamphetamine, which you can pick up at your friendly neighborhood Walmart1.1From the customers, not the shelves.

author: smashedProton
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 06:39:37 pm
content: Haha I saw a video of how to make it out of curiosity one time. They use sulphuric acid litium from batteries and ether... why anyone thinks that it is remotely a good idea is beyond me.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 07:00:23 pm
content: Because stupid.For just about every drug out there I can name at least one person I know who's done it and is otherwise a reasonably intelligent person. Meth? Not a chance. I live in an area with a big meth problem, so finding meth-heads isn't hard, too. Not a single one of them was ever intelligent once. You're lucky if you can find one who can spell his name.

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 09:43:47 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on August 09, 2013, 06:34:01 pmActually you can get pretty close sold at walmart:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisdexamfetaminehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylphenidatehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexedrinehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 09:59:23 pm
content: Yeah, but those don't have the delicious battery acid. That's the best part!

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 10:26:42 pm
content: About time to say that answer is deliverd and go on with a new question....Time to close the tread..

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 10:38:28 pm
content: Sorry!

author: ErikTheNorwegian
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 10:49:11 pm
content: Quote from: c4757p on August 09, 2013, 10:38:28 pmNo problem, it just became pretty OT...Im sorry that you got those problems over there. Last time i was in Phily, i was shocked how bad the town had become. Very much poor people, and very much drug abuse. So sad.

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2013, 10:54:01 pm
content: We're not Philly bad..... yet. Just a small, sad, former manufacturing town nestled between two highways with major drug routes.I'll try to stop derailing threads so much....