-> I 'discovered' surface mount after a long hiatus from reading
-> about electronics some years ago. It was quite interesting that
-> they had 'projects' to build circuits on business cards and
-> draw the circuit board using a pencil. Amazing. 

-> While it's true I'm not up to speed (at all) regarding
-> electronics circuits there remain many things that need fixing
-> that do not involve electronics. :-) 

 Even for electro-mechnial things though the Automated production
process causes some Items to be unrepairable. In fact some things you
have to destroy almost just to get then open. 
Then with the Buy/use/throway mentality there is typicaly NO spare part
supply chain. The manfacturers only buy for the production line.
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