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Re: Repair Café

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Post by Gys »

fredley wrote: post #3
Gys wrote: post #2

Its a pity to hear the International Repair Café Week ended exactly today.

I posted it a few days ago, it only just got reupped unfortunately!

Next year maybe post it in the week before and with a direct link to the repair week (2019) instead of the more general repaircafe.org

It seems there is growing sentiment for keeping hardware repairable (while manufacturers more and more want to prevent that). Part of HN will certainly appreciate this initiative.

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Post by mrzool »

There are several of these repair cafes around town where I live. My old Braun blender from the 70s that I got from my grandma got repaired in one of these. I sent an email with brand, model and photo when I registered, the guy got some spare parts on eBay just in time for the day and I managed to repair the blender under the guy’s guidance. Paid for the spare part (5 bucks) plus left 10 bucks as small donation. My blender is as good as new. Overall a great experience, would recommend.

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Post by stmw »

There needs to be more of these around! Among other things, it helps for people to keep in touch with how things work.

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Post by holidaygoose »

I don't understand how this works, so maybe someone can enlighten me. You pay 50 euro in exchange for some banners/logos to start a repair cafe, but they don't help you repair? I would have thought the starter kit would have supplies or something. What would you do when someone comes in with a toaster to repair? Do you just go on Youtube to figure it out together?
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