Re: Microwave Croaked

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 17:44:55 GMT, ChrisQuayle <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gave us:

Joerg wrote:

I repair as well, even a $9.95 clock radio that we bought and found it
had a faulty display right out of the box. Took 10mins to fix, less than
the drive to the store for an exchange. Plus less gasoline :-)


Yeah, i'm obsessive in that way as well. It really offends my sense of
thrift and it's a waste of resources to have to throw stuff away. The
worst case was a 4 slice toaster that I bought new in 1976 - kept
repairing it for years, shortening the element length, replacing when
too short by rewinding the mica cards etc. Quite sad really. But, fixing
stuff is cheating the consumer society mantra and is very satisfying
overall :-).

My father was the same - built our first tv from wwII radar equipment,
5" round green screen tube and oil filled magnifier on the front. I
guess he is really to blame for at least some of it...


Chris

Yeah, I fix *** too. I do not go diggin' it outta the trash,
however.

The trash I play with (read collect) is attrition from SMD and thru
hole runs.
In other words, brand new components. I can build and fix a pretty
vast array of "Bing's things". (a hard joke to get).
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