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Household appliances

• Carbon-based gadgets - all you need to know. (Just for fun!)
• Clocks - Although watchmaking is a highly skilled trade, there are things you can do with mechanical as well as electric or electronic clocks without taking an apprenticeship in horology.
• Digital weighing scales - how they work and what might go wrong.
• Fans and fan heaters - just a skeleton page for now. Can you help by fleshing it out?
• Paper shredders - how they work, and the mechanical and electrical problems they can suffer from.
• Sewing machines demystified. Trouble-shooting, care and maintenance.
• Steam Irons.
• Table lamps, desk lamps and floor-standing lamps.
• Vacuum cleaners.