After 10 years, Phillips coffee machine, bean grinder

There's a day?

 

Nobody cares about your clogged coffee machine... Please be a little more conservative about what you think you need to share. Oversharing can lead to being easily ignored. It happens to me all the time!

 

i find home repairs fascinating. i used to try it in my youth. sometimes you win, sometimes you're the bug

 

Yep... Taking stuff in the house apart after school and hoping I could get it put back together before mom got home from work was essential to my childhood as a latch key kid starting at around 2nd grade.

 

Maybe break the process into different components. Our process:

 

Saw this a tonne as a mechanic

Engines running the same oil tens of thousands of miles, & dying. Batteries never topped off w/ new water (or proper level when they are). Tires on the cords. Air filter housing = pink-insulation-plus-droppings mouse house.

Some things just get away from you, and drop off your radar. All machines have a line in the sand they'll stop working, if you ignore the signs -- and tbh the best-engineered machines will maintain standard as high as possible, until that showstopper line (in the military it's called graceful degradation -- the ability take combat damage, and still complete the mission ).

 

I've always been a DIY fixit guy. Fits in nicely with my maker ethic. Strong supporter of Right to Repair. I do know when to refer maintenance to a higher authority. When something needs fixing I always work out the cost-benefit analysis first. Upgrades these days usually are not. The face of durable goods has changed markedly over the years. Our present throw-away culture isn't sustainable. I'll keep doing my part.

 

I replaced a relay in my Instant Pot, but if you wanted to pay me for the time it took, a pallet of Instant Pots might be cheaper.

It's just hard for me to want it in the landfill.

 

(sigh) thanks for the intolerant impatient POV
aren't the Lefties supposed to be the party of patience, love dovie, & compassion?

 

I try to fix things, but my husband is much better at it than I.

He has this noble trait called patience, which I seem to have little.

I also get frustrated when a repair requires some odd special tool that I would never use again.

 

Same. Isn't hard to find an exp in a shop, where you're cheesed off enough to want to DIY. And the great thing is w/ comm'ys online, you can fix stuff normally beyond your ability alone.

Used to belong to a moto forum for my model. It started out carbureted (my model), then switched to EFI at a major update 4 MY later. New one is waaay easier to track-prep, but older one's physically-smaller (better for women and short-of-inseam), prettier, and just as reliable -- if you know how to wrench a bit, and what mods to make. Since I were a factory tech for the brand, knew all the tricks to making a showroom decent beginner bike, in a GSX-R600-baiting infield terrorist. Not surprisingly, one of the mods were F/R GSX-R suspension / brakes

Hey -- you're from Tucson? Awesome, paid my dues in Phoenix; lived in Peoria up there. Used to drive my Scottsdale Coffee Roasters truck down to Tucson to service espresso machines (and up to the Rim and Flag, for same ).

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Can understand. Alton Brown railed against the onslaught of single-use kitchen items, and I tend to agree... in the kitchen.

However, spent 16 yrs pro-wrenching... and special tools are what can make kludging a job w/ improvised tools (which you hope the customer doesn't notice), into 10 mins OEM-sano & out the door, paid. As in life, everything's conditional