I just repaired electric toothbrush. Again, for the third time (with different toothbrushes in my family, fuck Philips).
After two years of usage rubber button lost sealing. So replace it with screw furniture cap and seal ot with thermal-shrink tube (40/20 mm). Using only home hairdryer.
I’d like to introduce you to every waterpik ever made.
Ok I fixed mine with one of these.
How’s that taste?
Low tide…
Semi-related: There is new cozy computer game where you can repair consumer electronics. It is set in 2000s japan: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3812600/ReStory_Chill_Electronics_Repairs/
This is great, useful and not dull!
As for stuff being of lower quality and lasting less long than it used to: I used to fix my electric shaver regularly, try changing brands… Nothing worked because all electric shaver brands are crap now. They used to last forever, now they fail in spectacularly stupid ways very quickly, like your electric toothbrush.
I solved the problem by growing a beard and shaving once a week: this instantly made the shaver last 7 times longer 🙂
I can’t do that with toothbrushes of course. So I stick to manual.
I laughed at “shaving once a week” imagined do the same with teeth. Thanks!
for toothbrushes, never buy the bougie expensive ones, anything over 40-50, means it using some form of electronics thats not easily fixed. at least for oral-b, you can buy off-brand “brands” cheaper, the cost is mainly the replacement heads, oral-b makes thier money off the heads and not the toothbrush itself.
you can just get off-brand replacement heads.
Ocean state job lot sells knockoff heads at like $1/head instead of $5 or whatever the fuck they try to charge
i buy replacement heads online, and i brought off-brand sonic there too. phillips is just op for any sonic toothbrush, thats why i dint it buy it. the secondary brand, is aquasonic, i i think are still kind pricey. oral -b is fine if you just buy the 1000-1500, and get the replacement heads online.
the ones i bought from (that are imported from germany) seems to last longer than the one in states(the heads)
Upvoted, despite being not at all dull.
If/when my unit fails due to the button I’m bookmarking this so I can fix mine! Thanks.
I feel that it’s a rule for this community: not dull, but not interesting enough for other communites.
And it’s definitely too amature for DIY or Repairing comms.
That is smart! Now I know how to fix my tooth brush when the time comes!
In my family it was other bits that broke. The oldest one which I believe has to be between 12 and 15 years old now still works fine though.
Creative solution! Well done!
Ugh, mine fail3d in the same way. Keeps getting wet and shorting out. Seemed like a pretty stupid design choice. Planned obsolescence.
Yeah, definitely! My first shorted out too in the middle of the night! I spend 15 minutes trying to switch it off.
