Remember appliance repair, well it thrives here, not a throw away place. Six year old coffe maker, Mr. coffee style finally gave up yesterday. 200 Baht and ten minutes it's a happy camper again.

Just a good as the first day I bought it

Coffee maker? Jeeeez I just pour the nescafe into a big drinking stein and throw some
bottled water in there. grow's hair on your chest, and inside your nose, out your ears,
basically everywhere but the top of my head the hair is growing like a patch of weeds.

Your right but it's emnbarrasing when you got to drop your pants for a haircut


Ya it's tough a life bit someone has to do it

git wrote:Remember appliance repair, well it thrives here, not a throw away place. Six year old coffe maker, Mr. coffee style finally gave up yesterday. 200 Baht and ten minutes it's a happy camper again.

Just a good as the first day I bought it

Re-cycling at its best.

There will always be work for the person who a bit knowledgeable and handy with a few tools. Those in the service industry will never be short of customers.

Don't know where Git got his repaired westerby, but the "Electrical Store" (sorry don't know its name) under Big C, at the far end, will repair most electrical things pretty cheaply.

To be honest I don't know either housekeeper rode off in the Sun Set came back 45 min after and it was working. Pure Magic. Now the down side of all this is the wife never throws away anything, broken or not. Eventually things begin to pile up. Had a bad comouter screen hey pure junk only made it seven years. Well it couldn't be fixed stayed in the back of the puckup for a month, Finally got her to get rid of it when she found out the junk dealer would give a few baht for it. Of course it would have made a great paper weight

Things we've had repaired over the years....that we'd have otherwise thrown away in the US:
TV, no volume control......400 baht
irrigation pump, rewired......500 baht still working 5 years later
floor fan, rewired......200 baht
vacuum cleaner hose split in a number of places....the wife wanted a new cleaner....I bought a new hose downstairs in Big C for 350 baht.....works like new!

I get spot welds done in the neighborhood at 10 baht a spot. In most cases, the guy does the work on the spot for me.

Our daughter brought over gold earrings that would have cost over $100 to repair in the US. 400 baht and a day later, the earrings are like new.

And, the icing on the cake was my wife's 10-year old Gucci watch that she dearly loved. It bit the dust last Nov. The little watch shop next to the old Neeson replaced the innards for 1200-ish baht and a one year guarantee. My wife's happy......I was ecstatic!

Most all these things would have gone into the trash can back in the US.

It truly is amazing my Sieko got the stem broken in the accident with the dog, guy outside Lotus repaired it for 40 baht

You really have to give the Thais credit where it's due. They're thrifty. Everything gets recycled
re-used, repaired until there is nothing left of it. Old-fashioned skills which have almost vanished.

ONe thing for sure makes it easy to be thrifty here if yuo just do what they do