• benderbeerman@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    ^as said by somebody who never had to replace the motor on their washer, or the burned on their range, or the belt on their dryer, or the elements in the water heater…

    The reason they always worked forever was because your dad bought replacement parts from the appliance repair store and didn’t complain to you about it.

    This is literally one of the top 3 good things about YouTube

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      have repaired my oven twice (15 years) and dryer three times (16 years). it’s amazing how many appliances can be repaired if people just take the time to dig into it.

      unless it has a screen. fuck everything about that shit.

      • WIZARD POPE💫@lemmy.world
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        We tried to repair our washing machine but the fuckers designed it in such a way that the drum and bearing or something of the sort are inseparabale and thus you cannot just replace rhe bearing which was fucked in ours but you have to get the whole assembly. So instead of a probably 50-100€ worth of parts the repair would be in the 200-300€ range and at that point it made no sense spending that much money on a 6 year old machine.