We're in a throw-away culture. I think that DVD players are quite inexpensive at Value Village and the like. First-world people's time is expensive and most consumer hardware is cheap. Of course there are exceptions. Most stuff is made to be inexpensive and functional, not easy to repair. I recently inherited have an almost perfectly good portable radio. I'm pretty sure that all that is wrong is that the volume control potentiometer is worn out. But the time for me to disassemble the unit, figure out a replacement pot (if possible), reassemble would be worth much more than an AM/FM radio. Expensive things may be worth repairing. Or simple failures. All is not lost. The next meeting of the Repair Cafe is this Saturday at Withrow Park Farmer's Market: <https://repaircafetoronto.ca/> It might be worth pre-registering your item for repair.
From: Karen Lewellen via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> To: talk@lists.gtalug.org Cc: Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 22:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [GTALUG] speaking of doctors, how about electronic repair ones?
as in things like DVD or cd players, coffeemakers those sorts of electronics? In the case of the DVD player it is a better quality Panasonic model, so I may ask them about out of warranty work. Other ideas? Thanks, Karen
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