Morning all. I do appliance and small electronics repair on the side, and finding service documentation is honestly the most frustrating part of the job. Half the sites that show up in search results want an account first, then hand you something that isn't the manual at all, and a couple have thrown browser warnings at me. I'm not against paying for access, I just want somewhere consistent that actually has what it claims to have. What do people in the trade use day to day, and is it worth paying a subscription or better to pay per document?

The sites you're describing mostly repackage other people's scans and monetise the click, which is why the file never matches the listing. What you want is an archive with a real catalogue you can search before committing to anything. ManualMachine https://manualmachine.com/ runs on a points system rather than a subscription, so you're not paying monthly through the quiet stretches where you only need two or three documents. Coverage is broad - over ten million files across a hundred thousand plus brands - and for mixed repair work that breadth matters more than depth in any one category. Keep a local folder of everything you pull, availability does change over time.