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Can you repair your hairdryer? It’s literally a Chinese motor with a Chinese resistor, the two most frequent objects in the world. Objects in the industrial wo

Can you repair your hairdryer? It’s literally a Chinese motor with a Chinese resistor, the two most frequent objects in the world. Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. But Titanium can be melted.

justinclift 3y ago
> Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. That makes no sense to me, as industrial things commonly are repaired. Sometimes many times across decades as one part or other wears.
- almostnormal 3y ago
  From a certain point of view repairing is fixing things that are literally broken, which involves glueing, welding, screwing, ... Replacing parts is not repairing from that point of view, even if at a macroscopic level it returns something back to working condition.
  - justinclift 3y ago
    This is really not making sense. Also, why did "replacing parts" suddenly spring up? "Repairing" something is generally considered to be taking whatever action is needed to get it back to the required condition. If some parts need fully replacing, then so be it. But it could just also be things needing to be re-seated, maybe something needs to be bent back into shape, etc. The list of possibilities is probably endless.
TaylorAlexander 3y ago
> Can you repair your hairdryer? It’s literally a Chinese motor with a Chinese resistor, the two most frequent objects in the world. Most hair dryers don’t come with parts manuals so we wouldn’t know exactly which replacement part to get. And there’s more to it like a switch, a cord, etc. These things could be designed for repair but they would have to provide reliable part numbers for the internals, which they currently do not do. > Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. Objects in the industrial world most certainly can be repaired and it happens all the time. For example here is how a giant excavator tire is repaired: https://youtu.be/p0R-YWQCfdQ?si=iGagfyttgO5vTvDr https://youtu.be/p0R-YWQCfdQ?si=iGagfyttgO5vTvDr

justinclift 3y ago

> Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. That makes no sense to me, as industrial things commonly are repaired. Sometimes many times across decades as one part or other wears.

almostnormal 3y ago
From a certain point of view repairing is fixing things that are literally broken, which involves glueing, welding, screwing, ... Replacing parts is not repairing from that point of view, even if at a macroscopic level it returns something back to working condition.
- justinclift 3y ago
  This is really not making sense. Also, why did "replacing parts" suddenly spring up? "Repairing" something is generally considered to be taking whatever action is needed to get it back to the required condition. If some parts need fully replacing, then so be it. But it could just also be things needing to be re-seated, maybe something needs to be bent back into shape, etc. The list of possibilities is probably endless.

TaylorAlexander 3y ago

> Can you repair your hairdryer? It’s literally a Chinese motor with a Chinese resistor, the two most frequent objects in the world. Most hair dryers don’t come with parts manuals so we wouldn’t know exactly which replacement part to get. And there’s more to it like a switch, a cord, etc. These things could be designed for repair but they would have to provide reliable part numbers for the internals, which they currently do not do. > Objects in the industrial world can’t be repaired. Objects in the industrial world most certainly can be repaired and it happens all the time. For example here is how a giant excavator tire is repaired: https://youtu.be/p0R-YWQCfdQ?si=iGagfyttgO5vTvDr https://youtu.be/p0R-YWQCfdQ?si=iGagfyttgO5vTvDr