<story><title>Designing for a right to repair</title><url>https://interactionmagic.com/Design-for-repair</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>disruptiveink</author><text>My issue with most repair jobs as a hobbyist who can do amateur level of soldering is, oddly enough, stripped screws. No matter what I&amp;#x27;m trying to do and despite my best efforts, there&amp;#x27;s a very high chance of me stripping a screw, which is something that can happen in seconds and then either becomes very hard to recover or impossible. At some point, I either have leave it alone or destroy the casing altogether.&lt;p&gt;They show a Playstation 3 controller in the article, which is actually easy to get into... if you don&amp;#x27;t strip the screws. Just a few seconds of using a PH0 bit instead of the required PH00 the other day lost me a controller that probably could have been saved. Is this a case of bad tools? I can definitely believe that when tackling rusty, big screws: larger and higher quality screwdrivers with good grips definitely made the difference for me in the past. But for precision jobs, I have no clue what I&amp;#x27;m doing wrong. I was using an iFixit driver kit for this job. How do you avoid this? Do you absolutely have to know the exact bit to use for every screw beforehand? Is just guessing &amp;quot;eh, this looks about right&amp;quot; just asking for trouble?&lt;p&gt;The much maligned in right-to-repair circles Torx and Apple pentalobe screws are actually great for me. Never in my life I ruined one of those, where sometimes I feel like I damage one out of five Philips or flat head screws I attempt to unscrew.</text></comment>
<story><title>Designing for a right to repair</title><url>https://interactionmagic.com/Design-for-repair</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lisper</author><text>I recently had the unfortunate experience of attempting to recycle a Sonicair toothbrush.  The &amp;quot;disassembly&amp;quot; process to extract the (dead) battery did not work as advertised, and I had to attack the case with several additional implements of destruction besides a hammer.  I was shocked at how difficult it was.  There is absolutely no way that the average consumer is going to succeed in extracting the battery, and so all those toxic materials are going to end up in landfills.  Unfortunately, I&amp;#x27;ve also tried many other electric toothbrushes and none of them work as well as my Sonicair.  So I&amp;#x27;m left with the horrible choice of either polluting the environment or settling for substandard care for my teeth.&lt;p&gt;:-( :-( :-(</text></comment>