A sorry sight - the inside of our portable fan heater - WARNING: Don't try this at home Kids, unless you have competent supervision! The portable electric fan heater we were using while waiting for the heat pump – our main source of heating, to be fixed, also gave up the ghost right there in the middle of winter. Until then, this small heater hadn’t had much use and no one could remember when we bought it or from whom. Since there was no obvious reason for its demise and it still looked fairly new, I took it along to the Repair Café which happened to be on again last Saturday. It needed specialist tools -many of them homemade, to have a look inside it and it took almost an hour to disassemble and get a new part. There is no way that this repair would have been an economic proposition. New heaters like this are currently on sale for around $8 and $12 when full price. It made me wonder how much the poor workers got, given that the variety store that sells them surely makes ...
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