Everything’s breaking!

I'm broken. My point-and-shoot required repair. The scale broke. This is the inside of our 17-year old toaster. I googled toaster problems and nearly everyone has the problem that the toast won't stay down. We have the opposite problem, though it's still a spring problem: the circuit board turns off the heat and tells the toast to pop up, but the toast doesn't pop up. In the background, you can see that the spring is no longer attached at the top. I could probably jerry-rig or MacGyver a solution, but on a 17-year old appliance?

The toaster oven's door spring also broken several months ago, so we're just going to get one new toaster oven to replace both devices.

1 year ago (“Rapunzel, Rapunzel!!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2015-02-04
2 years ago (“Never saw this before!”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2014-02-04
3 years ago (“Pathways of life: Nature’s botanical ‘mother board’?”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2013-02-04
4 years ago (“Entertaining in a different style”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2012-02-04
5 years ago (“Desperation”): http://365project.org/rhoing/365/2011-02-04

[ IMG_8941S8x12Gtm :: f/2.8 (+0.7) :: 1/20" :: ISO-1600 :: 60mm ]

[Danette Thompson]

There are some great toaster ovens out there...though some of them cost a pretty penny.

[Laetitia Petrussa]

17 years is a respectable age for a toaster! Bid farewell and move on. But good of you to at least try to save it!

[Jane Anderson]

Ah, planned obsolescence! While refrigerator shopping, we were told that the new ones (to replace our 30-year-old one) would last perhaps even 10 years, but they are much more energy efficient. I thought, "What about all the refrigerator shells that are now filling up the landfills?" What a trade-off!

[Rick Schies]

I'm sorry but after 17 years I would be shopping

[Thom Mitchell]

@cejaanderson Ten years for a frig? That's terrible! Planned obsolescence, indeed!