I’ve taken one hell of a tumble. I caught my foot while jogging along the pavement and went flying.
My side has a long bloody graze, my knee is an absolute mess, my elbow and arm look like the product of a school playground and my hand has small skin tears over it. I don’t think I’m seriously injured but I’m in far more pain than is decent.
A kind person stopped his car when he saw me fall and gave me a ride home. The world is a mess and I am a mess, but there’s still some very good people.
We ran one of our monthly #RepairCafes yesterday. Happy to say that we accomplished all of our goals.
Everyone had a great time
We fixed most of the things we were asked to fix
No one got hurt
We didn't blow any fuses
I'm also happy to see that we fixed three sewing machines. These stand out to me because these are things that will be used to fix other things. Fixing stuff has trickle down. #fixer#fix#repaircafe#community#Coventry
Heutiges #RepairCafe in #Ebersberg war wieder schön. Wir haben gemeinsam an fremden und unseren eigenen Fahrrädern geschraubt.
Natürlich haben wir auch alles Werkzeug und Ersatzteile mit dem Fahrrad transportiert. Im Bild der Abtransport... #carryshitolympics
During Saturday's #RepairCafe my headtorch stopped working, just when I most needed it.
Today I decided to fix it.
It is an Aldi headtorch and surprisingly good, with a spot and a flood light.
Took a moment to figure out how to get in it. The two end caps are barbed and take a bit of effort to prize off. Then there are two small screws and it comes apart.
I could see the problem immediately, that red wire should be soldered to something!
Easy to solder it back onto the Bat -ve pad on the PCB. Then reassemble.
It is now back on charge ready for next time.
Things I worked on:
A sewing machine, the bobbin holder had corrosion under the tension spring. Removed the spring, ground away the rust, wire brushed and polished smooth. Then reset the sewing tension.
Helped with a second sewing machine bending a bit of the chassis near the bobbin holder and supplying two screws for the cover plate. It needs a new bobbin holder.
Repaired the broken low voltage connectors on two power supplies. Solder, heat shrink x2, self amalgamating tape.
Replaced a broken bike pannier bag rivet with an M4 nut and bolt.
Examined a Hozelock hose timer. The PCB was half corroded away.
There was also:
Two zips
Another sewing machine
A hair dryer
A dehumidifier
A pair of shorts.
A CD player
And maybe other stuff but can't remember.
We had two new volunteers to break in and I had to lend out a lot of my tools.
I also burnt my thumb as I didn't realise how hot my soldering iron stand had got powered up for over an hour.
I am Harriet Board.
I am a furniture maker and I escaped from a really bad relationship. I now have a small workshop with a bedsit upstairs. There is also a back garden dominated by my Landlord's miniature railway!
I have a rescued dog called Monty Dog and I have a wonderful girlfriend, Daisy Bell @The_End_Terrace.
As well as making stuff in wood I also do caretaking for the local community centre and I volunteer for the local #RepairCafe.
Hm vermutlich kannst du auch "einfach" die LED tauschen, aber das kommt dann natürlich komplett auf die verbaute Lampe an, wie das von statten geht. Aber für sowas wäre ein #repaircafe bestimmt eine gute Anlaufstelle.
A taste of what Transition groups are up to this weekend:
🌱Transition Town Rugby volunteer session at their herb garden
☕Trawsnewid Llandrindod Transition green coffee & chat, also at their herb garden!
🐜Abingdon Carbon Cutters host a biodiversity walk
🌺 Transition Buxton have a plant swap at the town's market
🛠 Transition Crich launch their new #repaircafe - good luck! And Transition Town Louth also repairing this weekend!
⛱ Deal With It - Transition Deal beach clean
🔌Many #Transitiontowns have #GreatBigGreenWeek events - like Vision 21 kicking off a cable amnesty, trying to recycle as many of those lurking wires as possible through their Reclaim store.
Plus, looking forward to lots of folks in the North West joining our regional gathering Greenslate Farm!
All this community-led action/change this weekend... and every weekend! Tell us what else you have going on?
After posting earlier abt the challenge I was facing #3DPrinting some badges for #RepairCafe, a couple of suggestions were made for a smaller nozzle. I set up a cura profile for a dual extruder machine, with a 0.4mm and a 0.2mm nozzle. After creating a cutting mesh to force the extruders I wanted, I got cura to generate the g code. Then it was modifying the gcode to remove the dual extruder commands and inserting a M600 where the second extruder came into play. This give me time to change the filament and nozzle! First time I have done a hot swap (in both senses of the word) of a nozzle mid-print!
I did check that the alignment between nozzles was pretty close before trying though.
c'était un peu pour le show, mais finalement c'était une bonne idée d'amener l'imprimante 3D aux 10 ans du #repaircafe local
On a fait quelque démos, (avec "effet démo" inclus) qui ont intéressé (voir fasciné) jeunes et anciens (entre 8 et 88 ans je dirais) qui ont pu voir et comprendre cette technique de première main
et un objet original a été conçu et imprimé sur place en ~1h : une protection pour capteur corporel de glycémie (en PLA, normalement bio-compatible) #fablab#diy#3dprint#care
When I listen to music and an Abba track comes on shuffle, and when I see a record player at #RepairCafe, I remember a chap called Tony French. He was a short friendly 'East end' lad. I think he did a bit of plumbing and window cleaning for a living.
Tony was Dad's best friend, he was always around when I was a kid.
He was an Abba fan and back in the late 70s' he asked me if I could repair his record player so he could play his Abba records again. I tried but, as a kid, I didn't know enough to fix it. It was a big piee of furniture and Tony had to put it out for the bin men to collect. He said he would save and buy a new one.
He never did. He found he had lung cancer from smoking and despite a number of operations he died a few months later.
The shock was what Dad needed to stop smoking. Dad never touched cigarettes again.
So when I hear Abba playing, and when I see a record player in for repair, I think of Tony French.
Things I repaired at the Repair Cafe raining and awareness gig at Manchester Museum yesterday.
The pink headphones: They were donated as an example for me to repair. The three wires had been pulled apart so I soldered, hotglued, and heat shrunk a sleeve over the repair. A young woman fell in love woth them and so they were given to her.
A wobbly table: The feet are adjustable, and yet someone wedged it with cardboard. I removed the cardboard and adjusted the foot.
A loose toilet seat: No photo as it was in a toilet. The seat was so loose that it would have been potentially dangerous for someone unsteady. I used an adjustable spanner and tightened up the seat fixings. It was a good seat and fixing system but could have done with nyloc nuts as the plane nuts will just come loose again over time.
I also repaired a mini car tyre compressor, and converted an old head torch from the redundant 4.5V battery to 3x AA batteries with a battery case.
Sometimes you get a job that appears on the surface to be a reasonably good earner, but once accepted and money paid over, slowly develops into more and more of a PITA, and you haven't even delivered any part of it yet but can't pull out now so you struggle on while hating it.
Other times you get a job that is just not even worth starting but is so worthwhile trying to do for the client that even for no money you do your absolute best to get it done for them and they do not need to know anything about the amount of effort it has taken you, way, way beyond the value of the work.
Yeah, that at the moment.
I am going to fix that £5 'cheese metal' kitchen roll holder no matter what!
Bis zum 3. September 2023 könnt ihr im Technikmuseum in Berlin noch die Ausstellung „Reparieren!“ ansehen. Dazu gibt es viele Angebote wie Repair Café Termine und Workshops für Schulklassen.
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