Get the joy and satisfaction of doing the repair yourself correctly.
You get a nice dopamine hit when you finish, try it again and it works after the repair that you did :)
Congratulations on the successful repair, good job, I am proud of you for trying and doing it.
Even if you fail, try again! Winners fail, they also keep trying until they succeed.
A valuable life skill acknowledging that failure is a great opportunity to learn something new.
You own it, you paid for it, you should be able to repair it using www.YouTube.com how to fix it videos or online guides from www.ifixit.com where tools and parts and step by step instructions are available with pictures and key points easy to follow to make a successful repair on the first try :)
It's about manufacturers not putting barriers in place to block you from repairing your stuff. You should be able using YouTube videos or online guides, but with parts pairing, even new parts will not work.
Apple for example puts software barriers, so the serial number of the part means it will not work properly, forcing people to return to Apple to bring their devices back to Apple, notable in iPhone 15 camera or screen, features will be disabled or not work, even if you use brand new OEM parts from another iPhone 15, because the serial numbers do not match.
HP printer ink fake errors to force new ink purchases. Some are much darker and more evil or worse.
Soldering solid state drives and RAM to prevent repairs in MacBook for example.
Apple has a bad reputation of only allowing a repair at the Genius Bar at an Apple Store in a Geo-Tagged location zone, or where the repair can happen. The parts can only be used in a specific store controlled by Apple. Blocking your ability to repair your own stuff.
Special software on John Deer, this means huge cost for farmers in remote locations, forcing them onto the dark web to find hacker recovered information software to help the farmer repair their tractors.
Hostile Software, now you have to search for where the feature moved, changed constantly, forcing you to subscribe in order to adapt to software updates. It goes beyond electronics. BMW subscription for heated seats.
Hidden cancelation fees, hidden early termination fees, a complex process to stop a subscription, all part of the TOS and they siphon your files, so they use your data to train AI as in Adobe Photoshop subscriptions with cloud support. Licensing your own content costs $80.
Microsoft Windows forcefully updating and turning on features you turned off for enhanced security.
These companies forcing special repairs, are worth 10+ trillion dollars.
Device repair laws are the result of manufacturers taking advantage of consumers, like Tesla Motors making it so only they can work on EV's made by Tesla. Blocking any third-party repairs or maintenance by making it so no parts are available, no instructions are available, no manufacturer customer or commercial support available.
Even John Deer has done this with newer farming equipment, blocking farmers from performing basic repairs and maintenance.
Samsung & Apple have long fought legally and in other ways to keep people with smartphones from having access to spare parts in order to make people buy a new smartphone, when they just needed the screen replaced from glass braking or a new battery because the old lithium ion that came with the phone no longer holds a charge well anymore, remedied easily with a new battery.
Watch this video https://youtu.be/6IZe7KjIJg4?si=bZzIgSuIJiBu4IN0
Blocking you from working on your vehicle or device, like an automaker welding the wheels to the axels of a car or truck. When the tire tread gone, it would mean replacing the entire axel drive shafts, brakes, hubs, wheels, tires, making it cost many thousands of dollars. It would also mean only the brand manufacturer of your vehicle able to work on it for the needed service or repair or maintenance.
Changing Watch Batteries
I have a VFD steam punk style vacuum tube wristwatch by Spark-Tube on Etsy. It uses a 14500 Li-Ion 800mah rechargeable battery that is super easy to remove or replace. The timer backup battery CR1220 lasts about 3 years. It was not holding the settings, so I went on Amazon and got a 5-strip of CR1220 for only $4 delivered for free next day as part of ~$200 per year Prime Membership. Took less than 10 minutes to unscrew the mainboard from the leather wrist strap, then carefully pop the old CR1220 out, then push a new one shoe-horn style into the holder to connect the side contact to the + and bottom contact to the - of the coin cell backup battery.
Professional Device Repair
I repaired the screens of more than 10,000 smartphones over 8 years working as a Level 2 WISE certified professional device repair technician.
Engine Oil Changes Healthy to Extend Engine Life
I just did the oil & oil filter change for our 2020 Yamaha MTO3 and 2010 Toyota Prius III. The 2013 Honda PCX150 next, then the 2001 Audi A4 2.8 Quattro sedan :) I paid Butera Motors to do the major services on the Audi since they are vastly above my skill level and require lots of special tools and procedures that I would rather pay an expert to do correctly. Basic fluids and filters and belts and hoses, I am ok with those things, oils and coolant, light bulbs, spark plugs, headlights, normal wear items. I have the tires changed by a shop that mount and balance them correctly and replace the tire pressure sensors with new ones, so they have fresh batteries. If a window breaks, I have Safelite replace them broken window correctly. If I want tinted windows or to wrap a vehicle, I pay a shop that does that professionally correctly, so it looks proper and works correctly and holds up better over time.
Stolen Catalytic Converters DIY Fixed
When the catalytic converters and O2 sensors attached were stollen off our 2010 Prius and previous 2005 Prius, I went online and ordered new units with the correct pipe diameter and length, new O2 sensor with wires. Watched "how to videos about how to do the repairs" on YouTube. Ordered a cheap IGBT stick welder and farm rods, got some old pipes from the scrap bin of a local exhaust shop to practice stick welding thin metal till I was good at it, using the auto tinting face shield, leather gloves, outside with good ventilation. It took me about 2 hours to do the repair on each cars. The parts all said including the welder and welding mask auto tinting and leather gloves less than $500 all said. I was quoted over $1800 for the 05 Prius and over $2000 for the 10 Prius for the repair I did DIY saving more than $3400 doing it myself and then had an exhaust shop double check the work. I already had a hydraulic floor jack to lift the cars and jack stands for safety. I have a lot of experience working on cars doing basic repairs.
Makers Hackers and Techies
Sometimes when something you enjoy breaks or stops working, the pathway to a DIY repair can spark your interest in science or technology.
Crunch Labs Kits for children are a great way to spark curiosity into STEM or science technology engineering and mathematics.
Learning Super Cool
Those kinds of information frameworks help us understand complex topics and complicated systems with simple generalization models that are easy to remember or explain as a teacher to help others understand with examples and demos of such in first person, showing them how to do it, like a chemistry demo with clear explanations of the electron flow paths between the reactants, during the reaction and formation of the products, tracking the color change, change in pressure or temperature that enabled exceeding the activation threshold energy level to kick off the reactions
Amazing Biochemistry & Physiology / Valence Electron Exchanges //
Just like enzymes do as catalysts in every cell of the human body, enabling more than 10,000 such reactions going more than 1000 miles per hour 24 hours per day continually the entire time you are alive. If these enzymes activating biochemical reactions in your body's cells stopped, you would die within 30 seconds. This is why most pollutants are toxic, they bind to essential enzymes in the body, blocking critical lifesaving reactions from happing, causing cell death acceleration. That is why reducing pollution improves public health.
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