[rescue] Disposable electronics is unsustainable - Re: rescue Digest, Vol 135, Issue 8

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The skill set required to successfully repair the failed caps is limited to
a small set of people these days.  Once, the average person could do this
but not today.  I took electronics technology in high school but it was not
a practical course like tv/radio/stereo repair courses.  I never learned to
solder since I didnbt play with these things.



On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Yeah, the 'living wage' of the person that will replace that 18 cent
> resistor or $2 handful of caps. I don't mean that as an attack on living
> wages per se, but that is the barrier. If those handful of failed parts
> were user-replaceable that would be one thing (think tube TVs and tube
> testers in local stores), but that is not the case.
>
> Lionel
>
> On Thursday, February 13, 2014, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> > On 13/02/14 2:09 AM, Mouse wrote:
> >
> >> The cost of repair for a small business is more than the cost of a
> >>>>> new LCD monitor.
> >>>>>
> >>>> That's completely dysfunctional and we should work to change it.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >> By making new ones more expensive, or making repairs cheaper?  In
> >> either case, how?
> >>
> >
> > Both.
> >
> > A $100 (probably not a sustainable price, given that it's full of
> > nonrenewables) screen that is held hostage by an 18c resistor (in one
> case
> > of a 24" Samsung that probably cost $400+) or $2 worth of caps ... does
> > anyone see a problem here?
> >
> >
> >
> >>  It might not even be true.  Peter just said he fixed a bunch.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Yes...at what cost?  I'm four for four, I think it is, at fixing LCD
> >> flatscreens by re-capping. ...
> >>
> >> Yes, the current state is unsustainable in various ways.  But I have
> >> trouble seeing any way it's likely to change short of actually running
> >> into its unsustainability. ...
> >>
> >
> > That's assured.
> >
> > Human nature's great, eh.
> >
> > --T
> >
> >
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