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JohnP wrote:



I was quite concerned about this move toward legislation to make things
repairable. Higher costs and bulkier items will be to result - as well as
incompetent people causing accidents. A spot weld is probably better than a
screw and is more compact.

Quite. No one in the meja seems to realise that making a device which can
be dismantled for repair easily is going to make it more expensive to
make. Perhaps not a problem with a washing machine, but would be for low
cost items like kettles and toasters.

And reading that meja, you'd think early TVs rarely broke down - and if
they did were cheap and simple to fix.

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