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Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago by an_onanist@lemmy.world to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

Oh wait it think I understand the image. You had to saw the plastic apart to expose the screw. Yeah fuck those dudes. I guess another option would've been to get a cheap screw driver and modify it with a dremel? Either way, fuck Kenmore.

Wait... Oh.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 months ago

They didn't have to do anything destructive to "expose" the screw. They were too lazy to find a better way to see the bottom of the hole it was in.

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