Whenever possible, I ALWAYS fix things rather than replace them. You learn how they work, which is fun.
Lol! A couple years back, I boght this ancient Sunbeam Hedge trimmer thing, electric powered. I wanted it more for it’s antique type status than trimming any hedges or whatever.
But I started taking it apart - whoa!! TWO DAYS because of all these spacers and ring type things and springs and gizmos.
The grease - well, at some century in the past it might have been grease, was now like solid flint rock or something.
It had this brilliant but simple cam design to it.
Cleaned it up, resharpened the blades, put it back together and I think I used it all but twice in about 3 years.
But I did it! And I got it.
And I could do it again if I had to.
;-)
I take things part and fix them all the time. Things are usually constructed logically. Though over the last few decades fewer screws are used. Instead you have rivets and permanently glued or spot welded parts that can not be taken apart. When things are screwed together you can take them apart. But you can pop out rivets and put back together with screws.
Stuff from Asia that is disposable and non-fixable...put together with less screws....makes it cheaper to produce