Originally Posted By: Kyle Kubs
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I bought a Preston’s Guide about a year ago thinking it would be a big help with dating older equipment. I have found it to be mostly useless in this respect. In fact out of the 10-15 times that I have gone to it to look something up only once was it actually listed.(the manufacturer will be there, but the model # I’m looking for won’t be…) For the $80 I paid, the 99% failure rate is just not worth it… In addition, for a home inspector it is even more useless because if by some strange chance the equip. you are looking for is actually listed in the book, it will only tell you the range of years that the model you are looking at was manufactured. Some have one model that was made from 1970 to present, and that’s as far as you can narrow it down. It also only has information up to year 2000 so on any newer equipment you are again lost… One day when I’m out of firewood and don’t feel like going outside I will through this book in my wood stove…
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Those that say it cannot be done should stop interupting those of us who are hard at work, doing it…