AlexWhat is something society treats as normal that you secretly think is completely insane?
Buy a thing, it stops working, throw the thing away, buy a new thing.
Seems like nobody fixes shit anymore. And yes, I know, companies make things as unfixable as possible. But I’m a weirdo who would rather pay a lot to fix a thing than throw it into the ocean and buy a new thing.
djdarrenMy wife’s 4K monitor died a few months ago. They’d been pondering a new one anyway, so that forced the decision.
So I took the broken one to work and asked my electrician buddy if he could run a multimeter over it.
One 8p capacitor later and now I have a 4K monitor as well.
I have one of those digital measurement calipers. I dropped it and the screen went wonky. I took it apart, one of the zebra connectors had moved a bit. Put it back in place, put the thing back together and I’m back to measuring with it. Didn’t cost anything except maybe 30 minutes of time.
I love the feeling of fixing shit.
Yeah I have like 8 different ones. I have a fancy Mitutoyo in a nice wooden box that I use on special occasions and a whole bunch of others that are more or less beat up. I use the digital one’s for quick checks on stuff like brake disc thickness, where it doesnt matter if its off by 0.05mm etc