[gentoo-amd64] Re: how to track down strange bug

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> posted
20061019234855.64a8d770@krikkit.digimed.co.uk, excerpted below, on  Thu,
19 Oct 2006 23:48:55 +0100:

> My microwave stopped working recently, just out of warranty. I had great
> fun searching the web for info then pulling the microwave to bits to
> diagnose the fault. I was most disappointed to find that a DIY repair of
> the problem was too unsafe to consider :(

I had to buy a new one about a year ago as well.  I had actually pulled
mine apart before to reset an overheat switch, but the fan/wave-spreader
was simply old and had started sticking, and this time the thing
overheated and melted some of the plastic mountings.  At about 15 years
old, I figured it was time to by a new one anyway, and I was right.  The
new one is far more efficient and more convenient to use, and was
surprisingly cheap.  I should have thrown the old one away 2-3 years
earlier, tho it did still work and wasn't unsafe, just inefficient and
more work to continue to use than it was worth, given the cost of a new
one.

At the cost any more, like so much these days, microwave ovens are
essentially disposable -- simply not worth repairing.

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