Years ago here in the U.S., we had small appliance repair shops. If your toaster acted up, you could take it in and get it fixed. In modern times with the advent of cheap import appliances, most people just throw the broken appliance away and buy a new one as it would cost more to fix it than replace it. Consequently, the small appliance repair shops no longer exist. Watching you work on this toaster was a refreshing reminder of days gone by.
Thanks for the kind comment Matt, and yes it is very true, I guess in 90% of homes this would just be scrapped, I am to old school to not at least try and look for a simple fault
I had almost the same problem with my Russell hobbs kettle. The switch also didn't work properly anymore, but I managed to fix it. Great work my friend, now you can enjoy the toasted bread again.
Always nice to see an appliance saved from the dump, a guy in Strand recently managed to repair my 43 year old Pioneer amp, works like new. Hope you and the family had a blessed Christmas Jan.
Nice job Jan, now you can have your morning toast. The star looks like new once again. Enjoy these next few days before the New Year. Take care my friend
Good evening Jan. As Matt said, used to be many appliance repair shops, they would repair anything from a toaster to the oven and refrigerator.. but anymore, parts and labor costs more than buying a new piece of junk... But you know, there are still many of us that tinker and hopefully fix stuff anyway 👍😁
Years ago here in the U.S., we had small appliance repair shops. If your toaster acted up, you could take it in and get it fixed. In modern times with the advent of cheap import appliances, most people just throw the broken appliance away and buy a new one as it would cost more to fix it than replace it. Consequently, the small appliance repair shops no longer exist. Watching you work on this toaster was a refreshing reminder of days gone by.
Thanks for the kind comment Matt, and yes it is very true, I guess in 90% of homes this would just be scrapped, I am to old school to not at least try and look for a simple fault
I had almost the same problem with my Russell hobbs kettle. The switch also didn't work properly anymore, but I managed to fix it. Great work my friend, now you can enjoy the toasted bread again.
Thank You my friend, great that you could fix the kettle, it is good products but also only last that long, thanks for watching my friend
Great job fixing the toaster, it is much better to repair something than replace
Much better my friend, you speak with experience on your tractors
Always nice to see an appliance saved from the dump, a guy in Strand recently managed to repair my 43 year old Pioneer amp, works like new. Hope you and the family had a blessed Christmas Jan.
Very good you get your pioneer fix, is that perhaps a Rondo 3000 amp, thanks for the great comment Kobus
Nice job Jan, now you can have your morning toast.
The star looks like new once again.
Enjoy these next few days before the New Year. Take care my friend
Thank You very much Lloyd, appreciate the kind comment
Unique video Jan!!
Thank you!! Chris this was not so challenging like your repairs, not even close
Pretty slick looking toaster Jan
Hi Gary, yes not too bad my friend, works now good
Good evening Jan. As Matt said, used to be many appliance repair shops, they would repair anything from a toaster to the oven and refrigerator.. but anymore, parts and labor costs more than buying a new piece of junk...
But you know, there are still many of us that tinker and hopefully fix stuff anyway 👍😁
That is true Ed, on this toaster it really needs 3 technical brains sells to repair, on other academic skills I did not have one brain sell lol
Well done cousin! Happy New Year!
Jan the fix it man 👍🏻
Happy new year Cuz, I am trying, sometimes it saves one a couple of Rands "dollars"
Nice. Great job buddy 😊
Thanks Big Charlie, great to see you my friend 😁
@@jankotze1959 did my card show up?
No Buddy, I am sure it got lost on the Harbour floods at the time but non of the two showed up, It is a shame@@bigcharliesmodelgarage296
Well done Jan, God bless and happy new year
Thank You Rick, have a blessed new year
Good job
Thanks Travis, it was an easy one...lucky
Another success story! Good job!👍👍👍👍
Thank You very much Charlie, happy new Year
Good morning Jan ☕️☕️
Good Morning Gary
I like Russell Hobbs.
Yes Micky, good stuff my friend, first time I had to work on one
nice job on the toaster Jan. Could you smell the carb cleaner after? Happy New Year my friend
No Dave, not a bit
I never knew what caused them to pop up,, now I see.
I thought it was a mechanical device with a bio metal strip
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Thanks Gary, thumbs up
Looks like your fox is going to do the trick
For sure my friend, Thanks for the support Gary