There are small specialized shops doing that using schematics that fell off the schematics-delivering-truck. Their success rate is not 100%, but enough to make

There are small specialized shops doing that using schematics that fell off the schematics-delivering-truck. Their success rate is not 100%, but enough to make a living. If it could be done officially, even with real support from the originator companies, it could be even better economically. Doing these programs is just hindering the real right-to-repair cause. They pretend that these programs help, but once they get bored of selling these parts 3 years later, nothing changes. Everything becomes e-waste at the exact moment when it was planned in the original powerpoint they created before starting the development of the product. At the same time if you know which capacitor to change, you will be able to do it 50 years later too (with a bit of hand-dexterity) - or you can ask someone else to do it for you. It is not expected that whatever basecomponent will go out of production (with the exception of specialized MCUs). An "xbox controller left trigger sensitivity assembly (rev 6)" on the other hand was never meant to be manufactured longer than the life of a domestic hamster.