From: noone@nospam.com   
      
   Recently, all toasters, hair dryers, curling irons, cooking rings etc.   
   are equipped with thermal fuses, which blow sometime, making the device   
   not working, also useless. We just bypass it, as it's pointless to   
   replace it, as it will blow again, and it doesn't protect from   
   anything.And in ovens (in normal stoves) nothing is stainless steel   
   anymore; the screws, the sliding rails, the fan they're all normal   
   steel, probably just galvanized. When I got to repair an oven, I change   
   them with stainless steel ones. And I explain to my customers. that to   
   the manufacturer a stainless steel screw versus a galvanized steel one,   
   costs next to nothing, ditto a fan. They do it deliberately, so that the   
   oven breaks down and you'll have to replace it. Also the steel quality   
   has much declined; they get holes (the ovens) in a few years.   
      
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