Yes, sometimes we can force the manufacturers to comply
Right to repair.
That’s why I won’t own any John Deer product until they change (or most likely forced to) change their policies.
Those little water sensor thingies are new to me also. Unfortunatly nobody was home when the fridge decided to pee all over the floor.
But I’m going to pick some up for future adventures.
I’ve had several water heater leaks. Always managed to make it to the sunken living room. Hell of a mess.
Time before last, I put in a huge drip pan.
“Let’s see you overflow that sucker you SOB”
Years later came home to another flood.
Whisky Tango Foxtrot
The tank was fine. The Frellling input hose had cracked and was spitting water onto the wall 3’ across the Util. closet.
Down the wall to the living room again. But this time it also ran into one of the bedrooms because it found a new path from the spray.
They conspire against us.
And why o why put the washing machine shut off behind the washing machine so when it leaks you have to move the washer!
I did fix this by routing a set of valves off to the side where they are easy to reach. Never had a leak since.
All the Best,
Jeff
I heard about that one. I’d say that’s government working as it should—protecting people from predatory practices by corporations.
Speaking of predatory practices, are you aware of the situation with loot boxes in videogames? They are essentially unregulated gambling.
For anyone that doesn’t know, some newer games allow you to purchase boxes of random in-game loot with real money. The digital items in the boxes have fixed rates of chance to appear and those rate are rarely disclosed (this is slowly changing). As a “normal” adult this is no big deal, I have no interest in gambling and I can recognize a bad value proposition and avoid it. The problem is that these systems can target kids in ways that gambling usually can’t and are also intrusive to adults who might be struggling with gambling addictions. I’ve heard people admit to spending thousands of dollars on free to play games…I think a lot more regulation is required.
Problem with right to repair hearings before congress etc. is that the company reps flat out lie and there is often no one available to call bullshit on their BS.
Who they going to listen to? Someone from a company that spent a few hundred grand in campaign and other perks.
Or somebody who is trying to tell them that soldering a wire or changing a part does not make the (whatever) into a potential IDE ready to wipe out entire counties and make you wear out of fashion clothes to boot.
Hopefully the battle will slowly swing in the consumers favor.
All the Best,
Jeff
This guy has been very active in the Right to Repair.
Also has interesting vids on fixing unfix-able Apple products.
I know of Louis! I wish every state had it’s own Louis Rossman—the outlook on Right to Repair would be a lot brighter.
Nobody mentioned wayer pressure. Many municipal water systems operate at too high a pressure. We run our own well and limit it to 40 psi, which some consider low. But 40 psi is kinder to sutomatic valves and hoses. Friends in the city have twice, or more in some places.
Yeh, Louis Rossman is big on R2R. Good stuff.
Timer broke on toaster oven so it wouldn’t turn on . My right to repair !
That was helpful. Think it might have been low water pressure.
Now I’ve got to figure out how to get rid of the awful STANK that the freezer compartment has acquired after the flooding.
Got it filled with baking soda tubs - not doing any good.
Can’t defrost it again until we have someplace to move the like $700 worth of meat to.
Water got everywhere when it flooded and froze.
Couldn’t open the door for 3 days after unplugging it because of the ice accumulation in the bottom (side by side).
Amazingly, the fridge side is odor free.
Any suggestions?
All the Best,
Jeff
Sometimes plastic is just a sponge for stank.
AriZona tea jugs, OJ jugs, any kind of (sturdy) jugs I might wanna use to store foodstuffs, the stank just Does Not Come Out.
Scrubbed with detergent and scalding hot water repeatedly to make sure all remnants are flushed out.
Soaked with bleach to oxidise whatever’s in there left over.
Vinegar per tips on duh web.
Dusted with NaHCO3, as well as aqueous solutions.
Left soaking in each stage for weeks.
Yeah, you can open any of ’em and still smell the tea, OJ, etc.
Had a freezer that held a bad stank. Pulled apart the liner (hidden screws under the door ledge) and had a time cleaning the styrofoam of mildew and the heater element area of some built-up crud. Put it all back together and was fine. YMMV – some of these newer fridges are sealed foamed-in walls but the defrost cavity is probably the culprit.
Addendum; the PVC used for the liners has microporosity and will soak-up odours. As LB pointed out, not much can be done but lamplighter’s ‘Gonzo Odor Eliminating Rocks’ may be a solution.
Sounds like you get along fine without your microwave, but I fixed the neighbor’s over-the-range model with similar symptoms by replacing a small diode behind the control panel. Only cost a few bucks and was easy to get to by removing a few screws. We disassembled to investigate, and got lucky that the diode was right up front and obviously burnt. There was even a schematic tucked behind the top trim panel. :partying_face:
BTW, I love my old-timey top-loader with a mechanical timer. I know several friends who have replaced fancy front-load units after just a few years because the ’puter bits go wonky and the price of parts means they aren’t worth fixing.
Yeah, what brand is the dead Nuke?
Might have a solution.
It’s certainly old enough to have a schematic inside, so once I clean off all the shiite on top, I might just take it down and open it up to look.
Would be a good excuse to clean off the entire f’n counter and give it all a good scrubdown, too.
Yeh, and the internal barrels of side-loaders being supported only by the motor shaft and its associated bearings, with nothing else to take up all that weight, leading to bearings wearing out. Plus “waterproof” membrane switches and connectors being exposed to splashing water, other genius design-decisions like that, make those machines sooooooooo reliable.
It’s a Sharp “Carousel”.
Guess it didn’t “renew” after reaching 30yo.
My front loads are over 10 years old, run every day . No problems so far .
The Sharp Carousel was really popular among folks I’d known back in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Practically every house of friends in my neighborhood had ’em. Sharp did a decent job with them, until at some point when they cheapened it… and it went downhill. The Carousel III?
Best microwave I’ve ever used was a Kenmore. It was so intelligently thought out. Nice features. Nothing too complicated. And it was reliable. It was part of a stove unit at my last apartment, so wasn’t mine to take. Present one is a Whirlpool. It’s actually pretty good, except for the occasional unexpected drip of some oily substance. I think it’s some kind of grease buildup inside. I cleaned the whole vent system, even found some semi-liquid grease that had built up in it. But the internal drip problem returned and the vents were still clean. Anyway, minor problem because it’s not a frequent occurrence.
I can’t imagine the cap is leaking its electrolyte?
Do you do bacon much?