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You like repairing microwaves.
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I tried to repair a microwave once. I was unsuccessful.
Did the popcorn button burn your popcorn?
It just stopped heating things up. A bit of research suggested that the most common failure was the capacitor, which was like $10, so I figured why not? I was going to have to take the broken microwave off the wall whether I could fix it or not.
Didn't work, bought a new microwave.
Microwave repair can actually be quite dangerous if I understand correctly, as they can hold a residual charge which can be very harmful if you short it.
There's also some kind of toxic powder in there that'll just straight up make you dead. Or so I have heard from youtube
If I understand it the ceramic of the magnatron can contain beryllium. Inhaling or contacting beryllium can cause beryllicosus, lumps in the lungs and body, not fun. That said if you don't damage the magnetron you should be fine on that front.
So many reasons to never open a microwave, giant capacitor, high voltage, the fact it's a radiation machine.