When appliances attack

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 !

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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.

for odors

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?

I think this unit is far too new for an old style can capacitor. Bacon is done once in a while, but not enough to account for it, esp. since a paper towel covers it.

Ah

The Sharp Carousel we had one that lasted for like 25 million years . But very early on the display went out and no amount of banging the door would get it to light up again . early on you could smack it across your thigh like a flickering rayovac 2 C cell flashlight but it became increasingly rare for the display to pop back to life ....So we just used the minute ...add a minute button . .. Beep beep beep ..three minutes beep beep beep beep .. 4 minutes .Pretty complicated stuff . other than that .Rock solid and built like a tank .

On it's death bed I gave it a true carousel send off . I broke out the tools and tore it entirely down to schematic parts . I remember tearing down the door and being very impressed with the whole country of Japan. God bless them one and all for making such a smart product . Saved the glass platter just in case of a nuclear disaster ..maybe barter it for food after the upcoming apocalypse .

Seriously. That’s why I’m leaning to (eventually) trying a repair (hopefully something blatant like a fried diode) vs gutting it.

Tried chanting/cheering “Renew! Renew! Renew!”, but nothing happened.