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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
Bud:
Do you test that PTC with a meter? How you determine it has gone bad?
bd139:
--- Quote from: james_s on July 09, 2020, 07:39:12 pm ---I'd like to see repair guy as a job come back. IMO appliances should cost at least 3-4 times what they do, they should be built to last and built to be repaired. My fridge is 18 years old and going strong, the fridge at our cabin was made in 1972 and it's still doing great too. My washer, dryer and dishwasher are all at least 15 years old, the washer and dryer were broken when I got them and I fixed them. The disposable society is crazy and the cost of products like this does not reflect their total cost to the environment.
People used to keep all this stuff much longer, when I was growing up it was not uncommon to see 15-20 year old white goods and TV sets and such in active use.
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I’m not sure I agree. If you look at the supply chain required for managing spares for everything it had a larger environmental and trash output than scrapping the devices and introducing recycling legislation and restricting hazardous substances and difficult to recycle parts. I had a job once of running a van clearing out a warehouse of parts for pumps which were replaced by recyclable units. 225 metric tons of toxic landfill came out of that building. That’s the legacy of the 40s-80s thinking.
cdev:
We all could do more for the environnment by buying less and fixing more than a LOT of other things which make the news frequently.
James, I am totally with you on this issue.
--- Quote from: james_s on July 09, 2020, 07:07:05 pm ---Did she look into having the old one fixed? I've fixed several refrigerators for people, most recently my mom. The most common problem by far that I've seen cause it to stop cooling is a failed PTC starter on the compressor. It's a ~$20-$40 part that takes 5 minutes to install and you're back in business. I've never understood why so many people are so quick to just write off a major appliance over a simple fault.
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Many people are afraid that jobs will go away if we stop buying as much useless junk. Well, guess what, jobw will go away in large numbers in the coming years NOMATTER WHAT WE DO.
Sothe lext time somebody says "do this or we'll lose so many jobs, think long and hard and deep about what theyre saying. And keep in mind that we'll lose the jobs anyway. Many jobs are literally gone already, people just dont know it. These are jobs that we already know how to automate and we lose nothing because of it.
Except the jobs. We need to start discussing how we deal with the economics of a work sparse future.
SilverSolder:
I doubt the future will be "work sparse", but it will very likely be "menial task sparse".
PlainName:
--- Quote ---People used to keep all this stuff much longer, when I was growing up it was not uncommon to see 15-20 year old white goods and TV sets and such in active use.
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How old is your phone? Still doing OK on that 8086-based PC browsing t'web?
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