There is something joyful, and perhaps slightly rebellious, about taking old hardware and giving it a renewed purpose today.
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@neil And repairs are not made easier by the fact that we now contend with surface mount electrical components instead of thumb size capacitors and valves (though I accept the valve voltages meant more care had to be taken ...). Dad kept a box of desoldered components for spares, and new ones could be had from an independent 'electrical' shop' in the high street which had boxes of stuff.
@neil Plus to get into an appliance we now need hex, torx, star, phillips etc., tools - or we must somehow get two bits of plastic apart without cracking them or breaking the tabs that lock them together.
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@neil Plus to get into an appliance we now need hex, torx, star, phillips etc., tools - or we must somehow get two bits of plastic apart without cracking them or breaking the tabs that lock them together.
@SeEaldaEoh Yes, that is a real shame too.
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@smsm1 @neil @astar_7 Energy consumption for home refrigeration has about halved in the last decade or so, and old fridges and freezers can be huge energy hogs* (eg if they leak their refrigerant) that can be well worth taking out of service and recycling properly.
*If you have access to a power meter and your device is >>10Y old, check.
**FWIW, I help run a a Repair Café and keep running most of my stuff well beyond when it's fashionable.
@DamonHD @neil @astar_7 unfortunately I didn't get the power monitor for my fridge before I replaced it so don't have the data for the old one other than a couple of days. Main reason for replacing was that it couldn't keep the temperature low enough so food was going off. Less wasted food is also a good thing.
I have the data for the cheap freezer the previous owner put in.
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