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Flat Pack Toaster Heats Up the Right to Repair
https://hackaday.com/2025/03/02/flat-pack-toaster-heats-up-the-right-to-repair/
Hackaday · Flat Pack Toaster Heats Up The Right To RepairThe toaster is a somewhat modest appliance that is often ignored until it stops working. Many cheap examples are not made to be easily repaired, but [Kasey Hou] designed a repairable flat pack toas…
@hackaday I really love this!
At the #RepairCafe I go to, there's always at least one broken toaster to repair. These are indeed (electronically) simple devices. Just sometimes hard to open.
By far the most common problem: a broken heater wire. Those heater elements/plates should definitely be available as spare parts and easily accessible...
#righttorepair
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>By far the most common problem: a broken heater wire.
In my practice it's an electrolytic cap in the timer circuit. Given the timer is in a high temp environment it's just a planned failure.
@quin_antarctic heater carts for toasters, now!