Repair Café
The next repair café event! It'll take place in Riverport This Saturday, 9am to Noon.
Our next Repair Café event is coming up! This time, it will be held at the Riverport community center, on Saturday March 7th, from 9am until 12pm.
Sewing workshop: the main focus of the event, as there will be many fixers at this station. Clothing mending and various small sewing repairs will be made possible. Also, our fixers will also be providing advice on thread skills (including embroidery) and quilting. Reference books will be made available for consultation. Finally, feel free to bring your sewing machine if it is broken: one of our fixers will be able to have a look at it.
Computers: if your computer runs Windows 10, you've probably stopped receiving security updates. More than one billion computers are in this situation. One way to solve this problem is to use an alternative system (Linux) as explained by this campaign. We'll be providing this service at the repair café, we'll bring with us a laptop that runs Linux so that you can give it a try yourself, and external hard drives to make backups if you wish to do this migration. If your laptop as a hardware problem, we'll also be looking at it.
Small appliances: we will try to repair your electrical household items, like small appliances, or table lamps, etc. We won't be able to repair bigger products, as this is not possible logistically. Also, recent electrical household items with electronics (screens, etc.) are typically more difficult to repair than older electrical items, but feel free to bring any small electrical items along - we can at least take a quick look.
Music instruments: we'll provide basic setup of electric guitars or bass guitars, which involves action regulation (adjust height of strings to improve playability, adjust neck relief for straightness), intonation (bridge adjustment, to play more in tune) and pickup height adjustment (improve playability). In addition to guitars, one of our volunteers knows about violins: feel free to bring yours if it needs some attention.
Jewelry: a jewelry repair table will also be set up at the event! Broken links or clasps will be repaired, re-stringing of beads, or gluing of separated cabochons (or similar) will be performed. Not-broken but "poor fit" improvements may also be possible (e.g. chain extensions can allow too-small jewellery to be lengthened; extra large jump hoops can be added to improve ease of attaching clasp).
Furniture: feel free to bring a small furniture item (like a broken chair or stool for example), or a broken wooden toy or other small item, we'll see what we can do to fix it.
Knife and tool sharpening: we will sharpen any straight or curved steel knife or tool (garden tools, woodworking tools although we won't have the equipment to sharpen planer or jointer blades) but not ceramic ones. We might try to sharpen micro-serrated edges, if needed. We can do most scissors and shears as well.
