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Well, over the weekend, I took my toaster apart.
Had to break a little plastic latch that was holding the lever on in order to remove the case. Unplugged two cables, and had it apart. Cleaned crumbs out of it. There was one crumb wedged in between the plastic body and the circuit board. By the way, there were two integrated circuits on the circiut board for this toaster. Toasters with circiut boards! What the hell? Integrated circuits?! Anyway, now it works. I needed to repair the lever I broke, but drilling a hole and using a little strand of copper wire like a twist tie makes it work just fine. So now it works perfectly. I guess the crumb touching the leads to the IC was messing up the circuitry a little bit somehow. Hopefully I'll get a couple more years out of it.
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