the thing about being a diy guy

I think during the festive season I overworked one of my household appliances (not gonna name it here) a little, and it refused to work last week. Me being the hands-on engineering type, I unscrewed and opened it up. With multimeter in hand I did some troubleshooting. After some 10 minutes of probing, I located the problem. Faulty part. Had the component been easily available I would have replaced it myself. However it is one of those very specialised parts which I don't think you can easily find on the market. So I had no choice but to call the service centre. By the way the appliance was still under warranty.

The repairman came. Without doing a thorough check he claimed it was some circuit contact problem, which I knew it clearly wasn't. Knowing clearing where the problem lied but I couldn't tell it to the serviceman, lest he blamed it on me for opening the set up myself or voiding the warranty. So I watched the repairman. He put the screws back, tested the unit and it didn't work. Unscrewed again and repeated... think he took 5x longer than me to locate the problem.

All I needed was the part replacement. One black little box half the size of your palm.

Lesson learned: don't bother DIY.