Post #1192225
2026-04-07 21:43 UTC
Replies (5)
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@ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip 2026-04-09 06:15
You were lucky it wasn’t the $250 circuit board that failed, which charged $50 for shipping.
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@exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-07 23:39
> Back in the day you called a repairman. That guy's time is worth probably $30/hour, so if you want to use up his 8 hour day you'd better be willing to pay $240, plus parts, plus the gas money of driving his truck to your home, plus the cost of keeping those parts on hand and the truck available. Or if it's something he knows is only a half day job, then he can book something else so that he only really needs to charge you $120. Now that a lot of these appliances are like $500, it's pretty hard to justify the cost of professional repair. 50 years ago, when the price of an appliance was something like 50 hours of a repairman's hourly wage, it made a lot of sense for most issues to be fixed by a professional. Now that these appliances are worth like 15-20 worker hours, it's much harder to justify.
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@fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2026-04-07 23:33
The problem is that they're not designed to be repairable
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@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2026-04-07 23:08
Also, appliances were *way* more expensive – both to purchase and (thanks to wasteful energy etc. usage) to operate. [Bens Appliances and Junk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz21ZF9eQOk) has a good video on this that I imagine a lot of people are drawing on in this thread.
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@gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-04-08 16:01
> I hopped on an appliance parts website and ordered her a new lid switch for $15. One YouTube video later and her washer worked like new. 1. many youtube videos are scams/clickbait though and/or present un-true or outdated information 2. even if i have the spare part and the replacement part (i probably ordered the wrong one, how the heck am i supposed to know whether Knita CX-2035 is compatible with my Radover DishWasher i13s, the manual says i need Knita CX-2034 but they don't produce them anymore, but the Knita website says that CX-2035 is the "successor part"), i assume i either lack a screwdriver or a voltage meter or a fucking welding machine to weld the oven open and shut again. And if i manage to weld it shut correctly, i will forever live in anxiety about accidentally having used toxic chemicals inside the oven which now continue to evaporate each time that i heat it up, slowly poisoning my food and me which will only become clear decades later when i start developing mysterious diseases which *might* have their origin in me using aluminum wires when i should have used stainless chromated copper wires.