From: Bert Haskins (bhaskins_at_triton.net)
Date: Thu Dec 06 2001 - 00:55:55 EST
Actually, I think that we should blame those astronomical
product liability law suits.
By gluing the thing shut, it's easier to claim that the product was
not designed to be repaired.
Maybe...... just a little bit of protection against the idiot who would try to
fix one, plugged in, while sitting in the bath tub.
This actually happened with a hair dryer and they won the law suit!.
It is, at least, being appealed.
BTW Dave, I've been to the islands several times and enjoyed every trip.
Cheers, Bert
Edwin A Camin wrote:
> You can blame the testing houses for requiring sealed units. In order to
> make them as cheap as possible, i.e.: no changeable fuse, UL, TUV, CSA.
> etal. require that they cannot be repaired by the consumer. It's all a
> matter of mfg cost/safety.
>
> Ed
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ross" <ross_at_math.hawaii.edu>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:39 PM
> Subject: Re: How to open an AC adapter?
>
> > > If you can get into it such that you can put it back together
> > > again, I'd look. These things are made cheaply enough
> > > that I strongly suspect that a wire is broken.
> >
> > I agree. While it is of course *possible* to fry a power brick, most often
> > something gets
> > shaken loose or an obvious connection breaks.
> >
> > Is your 701 brick the one with the integral, swivelling plug? I think it
> is
> > possible that there can be an
> > electrical break at or near the plug in these.
> >
> > > It used to be that I could or would repair most any electronic
> > > thing that I had that broke. No longer--they aren't made with
> > > repairability in mind any more.
> >
> > I agree, and find this extremely irritating. Not just electronics - we
> just
> > had a belt break on a canister
> > vacuum cleaner; in their infinite wisdom the manufacturer sealed that part
> > of the system so as to not be
> > servicable.
> >
> > - David R.
> >
> >
> >
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