On 9/24/2008 7:17 PM Too_Many_Tools spake thus:

I have a microwave that just died...the control board is dead.

I have had this microwave for a number of years and suspect I could
wire a substitute for the controller...likely a timer.

So is this microwave worth saving?

I note that the new ones look like they have been "valued engineered"
to where they may not be the best for the long run.

Your opinion?

All I can offer is one data point. My nuker is a Magic Chef (kind of a
high-end unit, I think) that I bought used from a friend in 1985. It's
still working perfectly for me.

By the way, this oven is so much simpler to operate than *any* of the
new cheap pieces of **** I've seen around. On mine, you just key in the
time on the keypad and hit "Start". On the one where I work sometimes, I
still can't figure out how to make it cook for a desired number of seconds.


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Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

- Paulo Freire