I once prevented throwing out a broken electric toothbrush for a year

  • flughoernchen@feddit.org
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    3 months ago

    I currently have a non-functioning coffee machine and a broken kitchen scale right beside me. (Like, literally broken, I keep finding acrylic glass fragments…)

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      3 months ago

      What if you’re currently using a working coffee machine that’s the same model of the broken one, keeping it ‘just in case’ the other one breaks ‘in a different way’ and you now have the part? Umm, asking for a friend…

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I tried that once. Turns out they made some small changes between the different version of the same model and the parts didn’t quite fit. I don’t keep things around for spare parts anymore.

      • variants@possumpat.io
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        3 months ago

        Just swap the broken parts an you end up with two working coffee machines for your friend!