From: rmowery42@charter.net   
      
   In article <4950251152.1f610978@uninhabited.net>, roger@hayter.org   
   says...   
   >   
   > This is wildly untrue. What makes things "throw away" is that we can make   
   them   
   > so cheaply that the labour to repair them is too expensive for it to be   
   > economic. But modern electronic goods are orders of magnitude more reliable   
   > than the consumer electronic goods of yesteryear, so the problem is *not* the   
   > quality of the goods.   
   >   
   > What needs investing in the safe recycling of electronic parts, and I would   
   > suggest that both consumers and manufacturers should be responsible for this.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
   Just like the tire pressure monitors.  Lots of labor just to replace   
   them.  I just do without on my cars when they fail.   
      
   Electronics have been that way in many cases for a while.  I remember   
   the Commodor Computers.  Not  sure of the exect price but they would   
   repair them for less than $ 100 for any problem.  You sent them in and   
   they would pull out the circuit board and put in another one that cost   
   them about $ 50.  Throw the bad one away.   
      
   With labor costing around $ 40 or more per hour the item has to be worth   
   a lot to repair. The local John Deere shop is around $ 125 or more per   
   hour.   
      
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