Are you a guy that can fix things?
Like cars. Appliances or anything. When I was a kid, I thought it was like something that a man had to do. I know now that it’s not. The internet really helps nowadays.
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
It is a very good that any man, or indeed woman, can and does repair things rather then throw them away just for simple faults.
Unfortunately it is also easy to become unstuck by trying to rely on the Internet.
Most of the "how to" videos are not by skilled, experienced professionals. They are by keen amateurs who have managed to repair their own possessions, but reflect only the specific model of the item, and can be wrong for any others even with ostensibly the same name and number on the badge.
The working practices of some of these are questionable too, risking damaging the tools, item or worse, the would-be repairer.
So you do need a fair degree of practical ability and experience to be able to judge the quality of the "information" as well as sufficient for the task itself, to have any chance of success.
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I have tried it for what should be the very simple task of replacing the "cabin air filter" element in my Renault car. Every video I examined was of the correct make and model but not model variant. So although the replacement task itself is simple, to this day I have no idea where the manufacturers have hidden it on my variant of the same model.
Worse, I tried using on-line videos to remove, clean and replace the print-heads on an A3 ink-jet printer. It looked very easy but I had not bargained for considerable internal detail differences despite the same model number. I broke something by following an instruction that therefore proved wrong for my variant, and had to take the whole printer to a professional repairer. He found what seems to have been the world's last spare print-head for that machine, which is no longer made, but it arrived damaged in transport. The upshot was my having to scrap an expensive machine I had hardly used. (That lack of use had let the print head clog with dried ink.)
Unfortunately it is also easy to become unstuck by trying to rely on the Internet.
Most of the "how to" videos are not by skilled, experienced professionals. They are by keen amateurs who have managed to repair their own possessions, but reflect only the specific model of the item, and can be wrong for any others even with ostensibly the same name and number on the badge.
The working practices of some of these are questionable too, risking damaging the tools, item or worse, the would-be repairer.
So you do need a fair degree of practical ability and experience to be able to judge the quality of the "information" as well as sufficient for the task itself, to have any chance of success.
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I have tried it for what should be the very simple task of replacing the "cabin air filter" element in my Renault car. Every video I examined was of the correct make and model but not model variant. So although the replacement task itself is simple, to this day I have no idea where the manufacturers have hidden it on my variant of the same model.
Worse, I tried using on-line videos to remove, clean and replace the print-heads on an A3 ink-jet printer. It looked very easy but I had not bargained for considerable internal detail differences despite the same model number. I broke something by following an instruction that therefore proved wrong for my variant, and had to take the whole printer to a professional repairer. He found what seems to have been the world's last spare print-head for that machine, which is no longer made, but it arrived damaged in transport. The upshot was my having to scrap an expensive machine I had hardly used. (That lack of use had let the print head clog with dried ink.)