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Agreed, opening the bloody things is an issue, particularly with newer stuff. Small kitchen appliances of just the last five years or so have gotten much worse - thankfully I haven't had any of those brought to me last month or this month, but I've had them previous to that. The manufacturers, to save money, are eliminating screws holding the cases together, in favour of only using very tight clips molded into the shell pieces. These aren't the usual clips from appliances that have a small number of screws and then you can spudger the clips open.
Those are bad enough, but some have gone with what I've been calling "one-way clips". They're designed specifically so that once they are clicked together, they cannot be separated from the outside of the case. If you had a little guy inside them, there's a way to release them from that side, but it's a real chicken-and-egg situation.
So we can break the case to open it, and maybe fix it - and then can't put it back together, unless you want an ill-fitting and unsightly case wrapped in tape or something to hold it together.
Designed-in unserviceability.
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Agreed, opening the bloody things is an issue, particularly with newer stuff. Small kitchen appliances of just the last five years or so have gotten much worse - thankfully I haven't had any of those brought to me last month or this month, but I've had them previous to that. The manufacturers, to save money, are eliminating screws holding the cases together, in favour of only using very tight clips molded into the shell pieces. These aren't the usual clips from appliances that have a small number of screws and then you can spudger the clips open.
Those are bad enough, but some have gone with what I've been calling "one-way clips". They're designed specifically so that once they are clicked together, they cannot be separated from the outside of the case. If you had a little guy inside them, there's a way to release them from that side, but it's a real chicken-and-egg situation.
So we can break the case to open it, and maybe fix it - and then can't put it back together, unless you want an ill-fitting and unsightly case wrapped in tape or something to hold it together.
Designed-in unserviceability.