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submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2025
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