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Ha! An odd vivid childhood memory I have is my mum needing a new washing machine when it broke and I came home one day to find two of my uncles in the hallway with the washing machine completely dismantled - drum out, a million different parts laid out on the floor, they put it back together again repaired and working again for at least another ten odd years! Even at that young age, it blew my mind that they knew how to do this stuff. It would have been the late eighties/early nineties way before google instructions where a thing!
Same thing with my other uncle having the entire engine out his car in his garage with only a Haynes manual! Different times eh.
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There's a weird primal satisfaction in fixing things DIY.
Our washing machine gave the ghost a year ago and repairmen are practically conmen (150,- analysis beg your pardon?!). An hour later with some googling I ordered a heating element to give it a whirl. Three days later it arrived and half an hour spent on my back with my head in the back of a washing machine and the fecker worked again. Felt incredible!