In message o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes
On 14 Jun 2010 08:32:51 GMT, Huge wrote:

If stuff survives the first few days or weeks of regular use it
will
essentially last forever.

Err, no. Not for nothing is it called "bathtub curve".

I said "essentially". The bottom of the bathtub in my experiance is
longer than the useful life of the kit. ie the kit is well
superceeded before it fails.

So what, exactly, is your extensive experience?

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geoff