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12 October 2024
I do not want a machine-washable cotton lithium-ion battery
It can be endlessly frustrating to find/purchase replacement parts online. I wanted to replace a battery on a robot vacuum. Target, Home Depot, Kohls, and Best Buy offered the vacuums, but not batteries. Then I found this listing at Walmart...
iRoomba has a store on Amazon, and eBay has a lot of parts for them.
And yes, Google is very good at finding adjacent versions of the part you so diligently typed the 17-digit part number of. It is beyond maddening. The AI assist makes it even worse, because it will generally explain what the part is.
I appreciate that it’s got short sleeves. The long sleeved battery in my vacuum keep getting wrapped around the mechanism and it takes forever to unwind.
Does it shrink in the wash though? Does it come in any other colors or sizes? Gotta love jumbled up descriptions.
I am annoyed that I recently had to replace my (admittedly cheap) robot vacuum because the plastic housing to attach the free spinning front wheel cracked and the specialized screw holding it in was inaccessible (and not long enough or even not even removable as it turned out.) Superglue bought me about 30 minutes before the plastic crumbled even further. Worse, not only did I have to take the whole thing apart to even see if I could repair it, the broken part does not seem to be available anywhere. In my childhood, serviceable machines and replacement parts were pretty much the norm. This changed as the throw away culture grew of course, but it seems to me that you still should be able to at least try to fix or replace broken parts on small appliances instead of just throwing the whole thing away.
iRoomba has a store on Amazon, and eBay has a lot of parts for them.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, Google is very good at finding adjacent versions of the part you so diligently typed the 17-digit part number of. It is beyond maddening. The AI assist makes it even worse, because it will generally explain what the part is.
I appreciate that it’s got short sleeves. The long sleeved battery in my vacuum keep getting wrapped around the mechanism and it takes forever to unwind.
ReplyDeleteDoes it shrink in the wash though? Does it come in any other colors or sizes? Gotta love jumbled up descriptions.
ReplyDeleteI am annoyed that I recently had to replace my (admittedly cheap) robot vacuum because the plastic housing to attach the free spinning front wheel cracked and the specialized screw holding it in was inaccessible (and not long enough or even not even removable as it turned out.) Superglue bought me about 30 minutes before the plastic crumbled even further. Worse, not only did I have to take the whole thing apart to even see if I could repair it, the broken part does not seem to be available anywhere.
In my childhood, serviceable machines and replacement parts were pretty much the norm. This changed as the throw away culture grew of course, but it seems to me that you still should be able to at least try to fix or replace broken parts on small appliances instead of just throwing the whole thing away.
This is why I love my 3D printer so much! I have been able to replace and repair countless items over the years. :)
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