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When it does need repairing, good luck finding parts for it.
by hollerith 2y ago
When it does need repairing, good luck finding parts for it.
- bookofjoe 2y agoNo worries. At that age it would insane to try to fix it. A new one every 30 years? I can live with that.
- bookofjoe 2y agoFrom the original article: >And even if you want to repair rather than replace, you might not be able to do so easily. When it comes to electronic components, “the pace of change is so fast that a company will make something one year, and in two years down the line, they don’t make that component,” says Michael Pecht, a distinguished professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Maryland. “They’re making the next generation and that new component may not fit the old one.”