Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Repair Café

repaircafe.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 67 posts

Re: Repair Café

#21

Post by fredley »

holidaygoose wrote: post #9

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?

You don't get supplies, you do get tools though. I think item owners are expected to pay for parts. And yes, to start out with maybe you are sitting down with YouTube and figuring out, but over time people will get more experienced.

> send you a unique code with which you can order the highly ingenious Repair Café toolkit[1] from iFixit Europe for free, only paying shipping costs (normal price: € 74,95 + shipping costs)

The €50 is buying you (apart from your €75 toolkit) membership, so you get a head start on connections and visibility compared to going it alone.

1: https://repaircafe.org/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/03...

Re: Repair Café

#22

Post by mannanj »

chrisseaton wrote: post #19
justifier wrote: post #15

i've fantasised about something like this before my neighbors are consistently throwing away perfectly fine electronics where 90% of the problems are a blown electrolytic capacitor there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and…

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

So it's theft unless the trash companies do it? Essentially sounds like unless you're a company, i.e. you're doing this personally, you are stealing (unless of course people pay you as a company to steal their stuff).

Re: Repair Café

#23

Post by jacquesm »

I have a little hobby: I will fix anything as long as whoever wants it fixed isn't going to push me on a delivery date, is willing to drop it off (or it is easily accessible without moving) and pick it up again when it is done. I only take in a small number of items at the time. It gives me a great excuse to keep tools around.

Last two weeks worth of projects: vintage synth, an 'unrepairable' mountain bike, a bed (that had been cut in half by someone to move it), a couch (that had lost its legs).

Re: Repair Café

#24

Post by jjeaff »

chrisseaton wrote: post #19
justifier wrote: post #15

i've fantasised about something like this before my neighbors are consistently throwing away perfectly fine electronics where 90% of the problems are a blown electrolytic capacitor there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and…

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

In the US, it is legal to take garbage. And there is precedent for that as well. Although there can be trespassing issues if you don't have permission to be there. (like digging through a private dumpster at a business).

Re: Repair Café

#25

Post by nyolfen »

chrisseaton wrote: post #19
justifier wrote: post #15

i've fantasised about something like this before my neighbors are consistently throwing away perfectly fine electronics where 90% of the problems are a blown electrolytic capacitor there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and…

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

oi mate where's ya rubbish licence

Re: Repair Café

#26

Post by justifier »

chrisseaton wrote: post #19
justifier wrote: post #15

i've fantasised about something like this before my neighbors are consistently throwing away perfectly fine electronics where 90% of the problems are a blown electrolytic capacitor there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and…

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

ha! depressing

though i doubt the people i was living with who would break into abandoned buildings to establish residence are all that too concerned with your rubbish 'theft' precedent

the tablet salvage was in the states and unfortunately i'd be unsurprised if there are equally uncharitable precedent here as well

.. as an aside, i would be interested in reading your referenced precedent, i agree going through someone's bin to get personal info or to file false credit card offers on their behalf should be illegal, but i'd be interested to read the ruling if it is literally a broken electronics salvage

Re: Repair Café

#28

Post by chrisseaton »

mannanj wrote: post #22
chrisseaton wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

So it's theft unless the trash companies do it? Essentially sounds like unless you're a company, i.e. you're doing this personally, you are stealing (unless of course people pay you as a company to steal their stuff).

You're giving the bin companies permission to take it because you have an agreement with them and have placed it in an agreed location.

If a third party bin company you had no relationship with took it it would also be theft.

Re: Repair Café

#29

Post by codezero »

jacquesm wrote: post #23

I have a little hobby: I will fix anything as long as whoever wants it fixed isn't going to push me on a delivery date, is willing to drop it off (or it is easily accessible without moving) and pick it up again when it is done. I only take in a small number of items at the time. It gives me a great excuse to keep tools around. Last two weeks worth of projects: vintage synth, an 'unrepairable' mountain bike, a bed (th…

Do you ever post your before and after projects with maybe some tips? I’d love to see that.

Re: Repair Café

#30

Post by chrisseaton »

justifier wrote: post #26
chrisseaton wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> there is a place in our apartment complex where we place electronic rubbish and just two days ago i noticed a tablet with a destroyed screen ... i popped it open and everything inside looked pristine so i bought a new screen for some ~20$ and am now waiting on it to arrive Note that taking someone's rubbish without permission is considered theft in the UK (there is precedent). If you sell it it's even worse because…

ha! depressing though i doubt the people i was living with who would break into abandoned buildings to establish residence are all that too concerned with your rubbish 'theft' precedent the tablet salvage was in the states and unfortunately i'd be unsurprised if there are equally uncharitable precedent here as well .. as an aside, i would be interested in reading your referenced precedent, i agree going through someo…

I think it's this way so that people can't steal things and say 'oh I thought it was rubbish'.
Post reply on HN