Wayne Parham Messages: 18791 Registered: January 2001
Illuminati (33rd Degree)
What bugs me is how many parts are no longer available for some appliances.
Just a few short years ago, I could expect to find every part for all my appliances. I could keep repairing them as long as I wanted.
But that's no longer true. I have an expensive combination stove / oven that I must replace only because one of the parts on the front door is no longer available. It still works, but is ugly because the front glass is cracked.
Same with my clothes washer. The top panel - immediately below the access door - is starting to rust. It is extremely easy to replace. But that part is no longer available.
If these were cheap little things that weren't made to be serviced, I could understand treating them as disposable assemblies. That's the way many things have gone. I hate that, but I do understand the sense in making an assembly so inexpensive it is best to treat it as a disposable part. But major systems that are clearly field-serviceable need to be supported by their manufacturers with repair parts.
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