It's in everything now. It became like a museum exhibit to me seeing the most wild things. Wifi toaster WHYY? Like I knew about smart fridges but I was seeing like overly technical smart phone connectable kettles and like some griddle made for just bacon?? Whyyy
I'm just gonna start buying every single "dumb" appliance I see at goodwill thrifting from now on. I'll make a little collection and gift some to friends who want out of the techno hellscape too. I keep thinking about the absurd amount of lights and screens on things that have no reason to have one and how fast they'll likely break. All that shit will be in landfill in like 10 years max
There’s a very nice cuisinart drip coffee maker that has a metal toggle switch to start the cycle that always ends up at the goodwill here.
The switch isn’t actually “wired” to the circuit board, it’s a lever with leaf spring contacts bolted to the front panel that wipes em across some traces on the pcb.
This sounds like it would be a real pain in the ass when it goes loose and the leaf spring contacts don’t make contact anymore or the traces oxidize. Not so, you can clean the traces easily, bend the contacts back into their correct shape or just replace the stupid thing with a normal 80 cent dpdt momentary from mouser.
Anyway there’s an ifixit article about this particular problem that leaves out the replacing of the switch outright and also doesn’t explain all the screws you need to take out.