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advertising it on the internet (like you have here for instance ) is probably your best bet. a great many items these days could be repaired if you have the right parts, and all too often the first part to go is the same with every model. we run an electrical repair department, but the biggest problem is having to store a broken machine whilst we wait for another broken machine with the right spare part to fix it. England is a very small country with an incredibly high population, and highly industrialised, so storage space is getting too expensive. we have frequently found that though we can just about cover the cost of repairing and testing a broken machine, we can't cover the cost of storage. if we think it is likely that we may get a spare part within a month or two, we will store it for repair sometimes, and we usually strip down many machines for re-usable parts, but evry now and then we have to bite the bullet, go through our stock of broken machines, and give up on some. as most small white goods - such as kettles and vaccuum cleaners - contain more more unusable plastic parts than usefull metals, we have no choice but to tip them.
washing machines aren't too bad - most of the parts are easily interchangeable, they are easy to strip, and the rest can be mostly recycled (we actually make more money from taking it to the scrap metal yard than if we fixed and sold it usually). cookers are even better (except electronic programable ones) - you can even replace some parts on an electric cooker with parts from a gas cooker - and almost all of it is recyclable.
we do try to keep tubes and nozzles from a "dead" vaccuum cleaner, as they are often interchangeable and the first things to be lost. we also tend to hang on to Dyson's because we know we will not have to wait too long before we get another, and there is no one thing that consistantly fails on them, soit's worth making space. they are real buggers to fix though, coz Dyson doesn't like people fixing them, so they use special kinds of screws, and they are really hard to take apart and put together again.
We don't get many bread makers though. i don't know why, because i would think it is an item a lot of people might buy, try it a couple of times, and then get fed up of, so consign it to the cupboard. we get quite a few slow cookers, and a lot of microwaves. sometimes a microwave just stops working, and is easily fixed, but if there is something wrong with the magetron, or it leaks, then its no longer safe. we always keep the turntables though - they are easy to store and we often get a good microwave with no turntable.
if anyone wants any tips about re-using / repairing white goods, drop me a line. |
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