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Why does it have to work for 10 years? Make the parts replaceable and service the machines. The machines in the shade work for 10 years and those in the sun get
by lbriner 4y ago
Why does it have to work for 10 years? Make the parts replaceable and service the machines. The machines in the shade work for 10 years and those in the sun get a £5 replacement every 6 months.
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoA low-volume replacement screen assembly, even with a bottom tier screen, will not be £5. Even just having the machine company receive the part and forward it on without any testing, further assembly, or anything would cost more than that in postage alone. Plus the service fee for getting a service technician out to the machine (I imagine at least £100 a visit), plus the admin overhead of detecting failures and scheduling visits and lost downtime income would make that an extremely hard sell to a council. Hundreds of pounds per machine per year. And then multiply by every other element that you skimp on, and the thing will be broken continuously after the first 6 months, while sapping thousands in parts and labour.