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Stopped by a repair shop in Boise last week and saw something weird
They had a whole pile of microwaves with the same blown fuse, like 15 of them stacked up. Anybody else seeing a pattern with certain models or am I just unlucky?
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cameron31817d ago
Hate to push back on that theory, but I've been fixing appliances for twenty some years and I think the door hinge issue is a red herring. Those hinges are pretty simple pieces of stamped metal, they don't really bend out of shape unless someone slams the door hard. More likely it's a bad run of microswitches from the supplier, which would explain why so many units fail around the same time. If you look at the actual switches themselves, the plastic housing cracks or the contacts weld together from arcing. That's a manufacturing defect in the switch, not the hinge.
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grant.margaret17d ago
The exact SAME thing happened with a buddy of mine out in Portland. He had 12 microwaves from the same brand, all blowing the door switch fuse after like 6 months. We traced it back to a bad batch of door hinges that were just slightly bent from the factory. Replaced the hinges on three of them and now they're still going strong two years later.
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