Everytime I look up how to fix anything I am bombarded by 800 repair kits that are all either “basic tools except they’re not called speciality repair tools” or “glue or epoxy with plastic crap thrown in the mix”
Like I know how to navigate this now because I have actual people who’re good at this stuff I can ask but jesus christ how do you navigate this on your own. This sucks ass. Why is there 40 chemically identical woodglues at the hardware store
Why is there 40 chemically identical woodglues at the hardware store
It’s the same reason why there are 40 brands of canned tomato paste at the grocery store. The illusion of choice.
This is a fine comparison but yet somehow I feel like I need “It’s a tomato in a can, how much difference does it make” is a far easier hurdle to clear than “I need this to be somewhat structurally sound”
san marzano tomatoes canned > all other tomatoes
true but also not using them doesn’t mean my shit will fall apart, it just means i get like 20-30% less tomato taste
Idk san marzano “style” tomatoes are effective as well, don’t gotta be the real thing
“Nope, we changed the standard again and the thru axles are 10 mm wider. Fuck you and the hubs you rode in on. Also, the only new cantilever brakes we’re making are bespoke CNC hipster crap and cost more than a set of hydraulic calipers.”
I don’t know if they’re available where you are but Dia Compe still makes new non bullshit cantilever brakes
Huh, looks like they’re available at Crust bikes. Thanks for the info!
Even removed from right to repair, is capitalism making DIY harder by way of oversaturation of solutions?
No.
If anything the pressures of capitalism encourage diy repair, which is worse than taking the broken thing to a specialized shop, because of the combined push and pull of increased relative cost and encouragement of arbitrage over preserving function.
What you describe as oversaturation of solutions encourages diy repair as well, since being able to buy a cheap kit with crappy tools that will work a dozen times instead of a thousand times lowers the barrier of entry to people who will only use them twice.
There are only forty different kinds of wood glue in the hardware store because you don’t go to specialty woodworking shops. Titebond I, II and III are not the extent of what’s out there.
I’m far from an expert woodworker but if you wanna know the difference between specific different glues I can try to answer.
It will end up being the difference between park lube and white lithium grease, or the different centistoke grades of rc car differential fluid.
