Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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You Can’t Even Replace The Battery in the “Green” Suri Toothbrush (www.ifixit.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a loose loctited (red) screw that holds the brush head handle in place, bunch of videos on YouTube how to fix it. Bit of a PITA to get it open - but I cleaned, tightened and loctited again the crap out of it and going another 3 years strong since that fix.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That is fantastic, thank you! It's not so bad I considered replacing it - almost nothing short of complete failure or battery death will prompt me to buy a new one - but it'd be awesome to fix the noise issue.

I didn't even think about looking for a fix. IME, they're basically glued together, and I didn't consider they'd have any accessible screws.