Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by Arrath on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:17PM (#32471592)

Its common practice for larger devices as well. E.G. construction equipment will often have an inexpensive rubber coupling between the very expensive 250 HP diesel motor and the hydraulic pump or air compressor that provide useful working fluids to the tools.

Sometimes they can be a right bastard to replace, but its still cheaper and much quicker than replacing a blown hydraulic pump and flushing the system to ensure no filings escaped the filters.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by hasmanean on Tuesday August 16, 2022 @07:16PM (#32490289)

Yes, this is the moral of the story behind the “one boss shay.”

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45280/45280-h/45280-h.htm

A deacon designed a horse cart where all the parts were designed to last a hundred years. Most cart had a weak spot which meant the cart wore out but never broke down. This thing was built with no weak spots.

So on the hundredth and one year to the day, all of a sudden everything failed at the same time and it collapsed into a cloud of dust.

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