"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in
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In article ,
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.


And often the fault was a poor connection - which could have been avoided
by minimising them.
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