DIY Microwave Repair

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And fixed.

Bâtards at the parts place jagged me $30 over list price for the magnetron; good way to kill repeat trade.

So $98.50, a bit of driving, a dab of soldering to change 1/4” spade terminals to 3/16” (augmenting the crimps) and it’s all done.

Now to the naughty Italian out front.

A footnote on resourcefulness:

When I was young, WW2 was modern history. So much as one had tales of release from Egypt at Passover, stories of wartime survival against the odds were real and contemporary. One that’s carried with me was a family en route to the camps, changing trains before the last stop. An old man was doing sweeping/tidying; hunched over - he knew - although others didn’t yet. As he passed teenage boys - too young to go with their fathers, he’d mutter under his breath “You’re sixteen and you’ve got a trade”. He’d pass them on the way back and mutter it again.

There was another review of the passengers, looking for people who might be considered suitable for work rather than just a quick end. One boy, somehow grasping the significance of this division, when asked his age volunteered “sixteen” - and when asked if he was still at school: “I’m a carpenter”. So he was led away to join a work gang - the others pretty quickly worked out he knew almost nothing but covered for him, kept him working and learning enough on the job to survive. How this fellow precisely ended up in the North Country, I don’t know - but it resulted in him knowing well, friends of my parents, and how the story lives with me. And why I have a trade.