> 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 com

> 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