Chatter Of The Squirrel

Engineered Obsolence

May 31, 2008 on 4:42 pm | In Me!, Tech |

My microwave broke.

The door doesn’t close cos the plastic latch isn’t springy anymore. And if the door isn’t shut, it won’t turned on. Safety feature.

Took the door apart and looked at the latch.

One small piece of plastic snapped off! A small fragile, plasticky hook broke. Damn me if this wasn’t deliberately designed! Just cos they want to shorten the replacement cycle of the appliance!

That’ll work on many poor sods, but certainly not me!

A small drill in a pin-vise. A pair of pliers. A bit of paper-clip cut & bent into a small “L”.

Drill the plastic. Apply superglue. Insert paper-clip.

Industrial conspiracy defeated!