Tinkering with a vintage toaster led to a cool discovery for coil replacements.

Turns out, heat shrink tubing is the secret weapon against corroded connections, who knew?

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But like, is a toaster coil really that big a deal? It's a piece of wire that gets hot. People are out here using hairpins and paperclips in a pinch. Heat shrink seems fancy for something that just needs to not fall apart. Won't that stuff just melt or get brittle after a few years of toast-making anyway? Seems like a band-aid fix more than a real repair.

lee.nathan1mo ago

Heat shrink on a toaster is a hot mess waiting to happen.

parker_palmer4425d ago

Yeah, but my toaster repair skills are about as good as my cooking, so heat shrink is all I've got. I tried the real parts once and ended up with a bag of springs and a sad, cold bagel. Lunafox makes it sound easy, but my version always looks like a melted crayon sculpture. Pretty sure my last "fix" just fused two wires together with a weird plastic shell. Still works, somehow, but it smells like regret every morning.

lunafox1mo ago

That's clever, always figured you needed the real parts but this trick changed my mind.