Although full time job, sometimes been asked to repair (like everyone else on this site) electrical /mechanical equipment big or small up to the not so easy washing machines and mig welders. Down to a few items nowadays due to the throw-away attitudes that people have, as items do not cost as much as the older items once did.
The skip sites were valuable to me to hunt for parts as I repaired items for no cost whenever I could. Due to H&S you are not allowed now this past few years to remove anything from a skip site.
The big winner of this new law. "The right to repair " will be of course that big rich company where you can get anything even a small £1 switch in a big cardboard box (and I use them for parts), the loser will be the with hundreds of big vans travelling all over the country for small items.
This is only a small courteous take on this from me, others may have a more generous view.
everything nowadays has a built in failure rate as an example, when I worked for Ford Motor Company as an Electrical/Electronic Engineer that percentage was 12% and when new cars were rolled out to the public and have multiple issues 'Teething problems' these percentages are to high, no different to White goods, I used to repair them at home when they failed, but now you are down to false economy at your expense, it wouldn't make manufacturing sense for any company to build an item that lasts for ever, they would soon go out of business ,a prime example was the old milkfloats, they never went wrong and the company that built them went out of business, you could put this down to greed at our expense, however a Manufacturing company has to survive, I for one would always have wanted to repair something electrically but I feel those days have gone and so to are our skills, probably easier for the new generations.
everything nowadays has a built in failure rate as an example, when I worked for Ford Motor Company as an Electrical/Electronic Engineer that percentage was 12% and when new cars were rolled out to the public and have multiple issues 'Teething problems' these percentages are to high, no different to White goods, I used to repair them at home when they failed, but now you are down to false economy at your expense, it wouldn't make manufacturing sense for any company to build an item that lasts for ever, they would soon go out of business ,a prime example was the old milkfloats, they never went wrong and the company that built them went out of business, you could put this down to greed at our expense, however a Manufacturing company has to survive, I for one would always have wanted to repair something electrically but I feel those days have gone and so to are our skills, probably easier for the new generations.
