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[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 30 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Modern? I'm pretty sure this one is older than me and I turned 41 the day before yesterday ๐Ÿ˜„

That being said, the sunbeam looks brilliant and if I could afford one I'd much prefer that to the one I have!

[-] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Just make friends with someone who has one!

(Then steal it)

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 months ago

Well, if it is just the knob you can try gluing it back, cut up toothpicks might help. If you are confident with electrics you can replace the potentiometer.

Toasters just really go by time or temperature, except the Sunbeam which actually goes by if the toast is 'toast'.

I never let anything die, I just keep fixing it. Hardly an auspicious start though.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

After some swearing and trial and error, it turned out that putting it back on was actually quite easy without having to use any glue or anything, making it fulfill the "mildly" part of the community name lol.

Thanks for all the helpful advice nonetheless though, I really appreciate it ๐Ÿ™‚

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Swearing and impact technology are greatly underrated techniques for appliance repair.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Nice! I like "impact technology" almost as much as "concussive calibration" ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

We also used percussive maintenance

[-] dandu3@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Not true, I had a Philips toastsensor that apparently sensed the toast.

It was good only to burn said toast. That toaster is now in the garbage and has been replaced by a regular one. Good riddance!

[-] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Didn't Technology Connections make a few videos about it?

Edit: ah they're linked

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

Holy fuck, why didn't this catch on?

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

The article mentions that they costed about 22 USD when introduced and it's around 260 in today's dollars. Pretty darn expensive

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That's actually better than I expected, but yeah, I'm guessing that was the issue.

Now, a pressure sensor and microcontroller would be pennies at scale, and most toasters already use solenoids. I'm less sure about the temperature sensor because of how much heat it would have to tolerate, but I doubt it would be more than a few dollars, and manufacturing a slightly different board would be a one-time cost.

This would make a pretty good startup. The YouTube videos have done some of the marketing already, even.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I think some of the fondness for devices like these also comes from the subjective beauty/elegance of mechanical stuff over the modern microcontroller approach with electronics. But yeah, it still would be very interesting to see stuff like this available again at a cheaper price

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

I get that too, but this is a concept that's actually relevant (in toast-making terms) outside of any academic or aesthetic considerations. It's just better.

[-] fossphi@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Indeed, no disagreement there! By the way, Technology Connections (the YouTube channel referred in the article) has a video on how an old microwave is miles ahead its modern counterparts. You might like that, too

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My guess is that the profit margin wasn't big enough ๐Ÿ˜ฎโ€๐Ÿ’จ

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 10 months ago

Hmm, I guess it might have been pretty complex for 40's manufacturers. Hopefully someone gives it another try.

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I have a kitchenaid toaster that matches my KitchenAid...I hate it , it manages to burn one edge on either side of every slice of every bread. It beeps before it makes a loud pop to so the beep is annoying and superfluous. It's first setting is warm bread and second is just passed acceptable, 3 is burnt. I've never used the remaining 4 -6 settings. If you put bread in at 2 and then another batch when it is done it will burn the second lot.

Utter piece of shit for the price we paid. You'd get, and in fact I have, a better toaster for a tenth the price doing your grocery shopping.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

These days, any purchase you make is a gamble without research. And even with research, it's hard to tell the difference between a reviewed version and the one you're looking at sometimes.

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 1 points 10 months ago

Or something with a knob for heath control, to counter the aging bimetal.

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