Needless to say that you couldn’t buy replacement parts for most of the stuff even if you were willing to pay the moon.
But it does not change the fact that Young people have been stuplified to the point of being unable to fix anything or create anything.
I think the boys of 50 years ago would love to see our throw away culture, and thrown out gadgets and electronics, they would be building a mountain of super cool spare parts and building incredible devices for themselves.
My daughter’s 4 year old i-pod broke - no headphones. The Apple store said it wasn’t repairable, but would give her money towards a new device.
I did a youtube search and figured it was probably the headphone jack. It was a fun project to watch a couple of videos and use the best ideas of both to take the i-pod apart and put in the new $4.50 part. Spent perhaps an hour doing research, and 45 minutes doing the repair with her help.
My son who I thought never paid much attention had some gal at his college tweet something like “Fixed my closet with a paper clip, and screw from my desk” #myhero
Tomorrow we tackle the struts on his car.