Thank you for posting that.
There are many advantages to DIY repair:
1) You care, and want it fixed right.
2) You aren’t making money on the repair, so you’re not looking for extra costs.
3) Your old “thing” may be better than the China-made garbage that would replace it.
Those are just a few, and there are certainly others, if you have the time and interest to repair.
I try to fix or replace most things, myself. My dryer runs on a replacement pulley I turned on a lathe from a piece of walnut firewood, for instance.
I have been finally driven to repair my home’s heat pump, myself, after going through every HVAC service in the phone book over a period of 10 years. I don’t think that there is much, if any, honesty in HVAC, and I thought the system should have been more reliable than what I was seeing. Watching previous repairs and the Internet help, but there is some weaselly stuff on the Internet, too. The “supply chain” crunch is real, too. Parts and tools can be hard to get.
My 30-year-old USA-made microwave finally died for good (likely) a few weeks ago. Some things can’t last forever. Now, the ONLY replacements are made in Chyna. I’ll be happy if it makes it through the warranty. If it dies, I’ll probably scrap it for parts to resurrect the old one.
Thanks again for posting that site. I’ll see if what I need for the old microwave is out there.
Don’t know if you seen what I posted on #36, here it is again just in case. (Though it seems you would have already checked for this)
Some time back a friend alerted me to videos on YouTube for microwave repair. Turns out that very often an internal fuse will blow. 50 cent fuse and 30 minute repair to salvage a 300 dollar microwave. I can only imagine how many microwaves were thrown to the curb when a cheap and easy repair could have solved the issue.
Here’s the link:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8i3iYtQOih4