So, just finished this month's Repair Cafe in #Regina.

There's a depressing pattern where small #appliances, typically #kitchen stuff, fail after just a year or so. The warranties are invariably one year. Nobody, especially the manufacturer, offers service - "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper" is the refrain. Of course, we're trying to "reduce, re-use, recycle" and keep this stuff out of the #landfill.

Even trying to service them is a pain, and sometimes impossible. The cases/shells of modern stuff are frequently absolute b*stards to take apart, and really new stuff now features "one-way clips" - there's literally no way to unclip the shell after it's been clicked together at the factory. You can't access the latching bit, so you have to force it and break the #clip, and then #bodge it back together somehow.

Mandating a longer #warranty, like in the EU - two years, three? - would help, because stuff would have to be designed better.

The two most frustrating from today:

1) A Keurig coffee maker, used twice, a year old. Got it apart, it had leaked water onto the back of the (massively #overcomplicated) CPU board, and shorted it out. Poof, magic smoke gone, tears in the rain, time to die, etc. Who puts the CPU directly under a join in the #water pipe?

2) A gas-powered leaf blower. Fuel line rotted, but to be able to feed new one through from the carburetor to the fuel tank, you have to take the shell apart - which requires disassembling the engine!

#RepairCafe #SK #EWaste

Freezer draw update.

2 part Apoxie has been applied - detailed investigation of cracks showed that liquid Expoy wasn't gonna cut it and would be a major PITA to apply.

Now just gotta leave it alone for 3 days to fully cure and see how it does.

If it doesn't cure and hold fast, or does cure but then doesn't fare well under freezer temps, I'll have to just go buy the expensive replacement part.

Fingers crossed ! 🤞🏾😒

Thanks for your help everyone.

#Apoxy #Epoxy #Bodge #Repairs

LOL, whoever did this was even worse than our previous guy.

But not far off. Typical old farm hammer 😬

#Hammer #AntsPants #Bodge

The "oh look, we lost the original screws so woodscrews will do" fire alarm.

#bodge #diyer #diy

What annoys me most about this situation is that I know I have a box of small heat sinks around here ... somewhere. But, this will do for now.

#RaspberryPi #Bodge

It's Friday night, and that means apparently I'm twiddling silly little bits of code to entertain myself :)

This week: https://github.com/twitchy-ears/rss2email-fix-links

For when you want to use rss2email to spam the RSS feed from your Masto account to an email address, but also it doesn't include the images (or any hint there are images) so you have to write a little filter to get them yourself, including any alt text obvs.

#RSS #coding #bodge #email #python

End user: Hey this wordpress is a bit bust and has a home-page button that spits an error.

Me, a cultured computer toucher: well I'll check, can repeat, check the menu - huh its set to homepage, right check the homepage setting, yeah thats the right place, ok check what the link points? Its a draft page. Do a couple of things to trip a menu refresh - no dice. Check the theme. Someone has hardcoded in a menu in a bunch of divs that looks up page URLs by ID. Lovely :(

#wordpress #bodge