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Re:Pimp My Microwave by kennydude on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:52PM (#25095072)
They're so inacurate it hurts. My parents one is so bad that you have to put it to 5 minutes before it'll do anything, manually count 2 minutes, then stop it.
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Re:Pimp My Microwave by jedimastert on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:18PM (#25095294)
Most mechanical timers are like that, like kitchen timers too. They need a certain amount of force to get over the static friction of starting the device.

Instructions will generally tell you to wind past a certain point (in your case, probably 5 minutes) and then wind back to your preferred time.

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