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If you balk at the idea of picking up a screw driver then this article is probably not for you. If you are however, one of those do it yourself kind of people who loves to understand how things work and take pride in fixing things yourself without the need for help from service technicians or handymen then read on. If you use an electric wheelchair yourself or have someone in your family that uses one then you must know how much maintenance these devices need. Electric wheelchairs are used for many hours a day and they have a hard life, so they need to be constantly service to keep them in good condition. Also, electric wheelchair repair and maintenance is not a cheap deal. Every time the electric wheelchair repair technician gets called out to your home it costs you a couple of hundred dollars at the very least.

There is an easier way to keep your electric wheelchair running though. Not just easier but in fact, much cheaper as well. All you need are basic internet skills and basic mechanical skills. You need the internet skills to be able to look up the repair videos that people have made for electric wheelchairs and put on video sites like Youtube.com. You also need basic internet skills to find cheap electric wheelchair parts on sites like eBay.com or Craigslist.org and buy them. You need basic mechanical skills and no more to fix your electric wheelchair because wheelchairs are very simple devices when compared to say, the average car.

A motor is a much simpler machine than an internal combustion engine and there are way fewer moving parts. Motors have no oil to change, no coolants or fluids and no valves to adjust or tappets to tighten. A wheelchair has a few main parts and they are all designed to be replaced with new parts when they break down rather than be repaired. This is a simple swap operation and can be accomplished by anyone with a screwdriver in a few minutes.