Burned out my plotter motor last week by ignoring a weird noise for 2 months

I do house plans and small commercial stuff on an old HP DesignJet. Last week it started making this grinding sound and then just stopped mid-print. Took me 3 days to figure out the carriage bearing was totally shot from all that extra friction. Cost me $85 for a new motor assembly and a weekend of lost work. Anybody else ever wreck a machine by putting off maintenance?

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perez.thea1d ago

Blew a capacitor on my home router because I kept ignoring it randomly rebooting for like 4 months - did you at least check the voltage rating before you replaced it?

patricianguyen1d ago

Blew a capacitor on my home router because I kept ignoring it randomly rebooting for like 4 months. Every time it would go down I'd just unplug it and plug it back in. Finally one day it wouldn't come back at all. Opened it up and the cap was bulging on top like a soda can left in the freezer. Cost me $150 for a new router and a whole Saturday trying to remember all my port forwards for Plex.