Responded. Not that I’m really the person to ask about these things, but at least it gives a wider representation of respondents!

Done. Would be interested to know how the responses would compare to non electronic item. I appreciate most items have some electronics in these days, regards of the benefit they add.
Please publish results at some point. Keen to know the consensus, assume (naturally) most people are similar to me.

Done,

Echoing the responses bove.

Interesting Questions
Thoght provoking

I’d actually quite like to know what he does with it.

To add hipsetr points I have pointed him in the direction of la pavoni as a n example of repairable/buy it and fix it.

Done – but did he mean electronic goods? For me this is iPhones, TVs and iPads. I’m not sure if these will ever be everyday people repairs on the other hand electric goods, ie kettles, washing machines, the Mira shower (I replace the boiler every other year), dryers, vacuum cleaners, – I feel these should be much more repairable. The hard middle ground are the modern cordless drill/screwdrivers and similar things, probably as electronic as electric … and modern cars..
The thing about modern electronics is they need specialist testing kit to check, where as electrics and a basic multimeter will crack it.

Survey done.
Recently replaced the li-ion batterys and cleaned the com in my Bosch vacuum cleaner.
Not sure if that counts as electronic but deffinatly repairing stuff.
New motor and battery assembly = £350
New Cleaner = £250
Repair cost = £45

@wwaswas

Done

Done

guessing there are dozens of “other – bike lights” on there then !

Does your son have………….. The knack?

Survey done.

Does your son have………….. The knack?

He’s on target to get a 1st in Computer Science and has recently removed and is rebuilding the rear subframe on his 1988 Mini 🙂

I’ll see what I can do re: access to the results for those that have asked. I think it follows from his original plan for his final year project which revolved around a sort of ‘exploded diagram’ method of repair but using a set of tutorials to take people through dismantling things and printing labels to keep parts together when stored – almost like a reverse IKEA build sheet you start with the complete part and end up with a set of labeled components – linking the parts to online resources to buy replacements and then showing the rebuild process. He was going to use his Mini as a case study as there’s a wealth of online info and parts suppliers.

Survey completed.

Did it.

I think most of the “problem” of non repairability of modern consumer electronics comes from the integration and specific design. Virtually nothing is made of standard components any more and no company wants to manufacture and warehouse “spare parts” for ever and a day. It’s just going to sit there eating up space and capital and the pay back, for anyone else to hold it, is tiny.

Imagine an iphone made of “off the shelf” components – it’d be huge. Bigger stuff is fine.

Great idea by the way though I’m not sure how you’d monetise it.

The question that all the research will lead to is: “would you pay more on the off chance you could repair the device or would you rather pay less ?”.

Link not working from me.

Sounds right up my street too. Although it sounds like he should have included more than electronic items. I would second the call for car to be included.

Link not working from me.

sorry, just tried it in Firefox and it’s ok for me.

Over 250 responses from Singletrack now 🙂

Good stuff. I suspect stw is probably a bit biased to home fixed given the propensity here to fettling and bodging.

One area that I think is reasonably well supported for spares is kitchen goods. The pcb running our extract shorted. Only took 5mins to get a replacement ordered and it should be here today on next day delivery. Easy to access too so should be a 5min fix. Same for oven elements etc. Washing machine was a ballache though and that looked like it wasn’t designed for easy home fixing .

done. reduce, reuse , recycle

I suspect stw is probably a bit biased to home fixed given the propensity here to fettling and bodging.

yes. He mentioned he hadn’t asked for the age of the respondents either – I just said ‘It’s STW, they’ll all be over 30’ 😉