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An old guy in a Boise laundromat told me 'son, we used to fix these with a paperclip'
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knight.drew6mo ago
Yeah, it's the same with everything. Stuff's just not made to be fixed anymore.
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tessa3944mo ago
My uncle actually repairs old pinball machines on the side, and he says the real trick with newer stuff is that manufacturers stopped publishing the schematics, so even if you wanted to fix it, you're basically flying blind. It's not just that parts are sealed or glued together, they actively hide how it works.
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blake3026mo ago
Oh man, I love that kind of talk, but it always makes me smile. My grandpa said the same thing about TVs. Thing is, a paperclip might get the door open on an old washer, but it wouldn't fix the main computer board in a new one. The machines really are built different now.
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