How things work or are manufactured: includes locks, clocks, scales for weighing, and cloth manufacture.

No, you're not crazy: For years, it's been getting harder and harder to repair your stuff. From implementing proprietary components and specialized fasteners to withholding schematics and mandating repairs go through "authorized" outlets, modern companies do their best to make it difficult to fix the products you already own. This, by design, gives you no choice but to buy new things whenever your old things break. But it's still your stuff, and you...

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