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> If you can’t fix it you never owned it.

That's what I am going to tell the people I'll be keeping stuff from next time I fix something at my local repair café.

Exclusions apply. Garage door opening mechanisisms, pull chords for starting petrol powered tools, window blind slats, really old plumbing that is cast iron or lead. I’m sure there are more but I won’t be touching those things again.

Garage doors in general are a pain. I have installed and repaired a few and that is one thing that I pay someone else to do now.

I don’t find it fun to tinker with a garage door at all.

The nicer stuff companies sold their brand name to junk companies.