If you really need to walk away from an opporunity to learn about maintaining your own stuff, there's a chance none of us will be able work on it. We'll be working with others who were willing, able, and excited to learn about repair and maintenance.
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Abandoning an opportunity to learn how to fix your stuff puts us at a disadvantage towards effective repair. We would be operating in the dark. We wind up going down a rabbit hole, giving up other repairs that could have taken less time and effort.
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Without the skill-sharing, she would have had to wait for another Fixing Session. Instead, she fetched the soldering kit, resoldered everything, and got it working again. Those are the victories we want to see.
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Traditional Repair Shop?
We're Very Different
We're so interested in sharing what we know about repair, we even changed our About Us sections to include skill sharing as part of our mission. As much as we like fixing stuff, we love teaching others to do so even more.
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The small appliance had no power and no lights. We saw bad parts. We could have done the work ourselves, but we chose to train the owner on through-hole soldering. She got it working. The mini-fridge actually went out again later that week.
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Example:
The small appliance had no power and no lights. Β We saw bad parts. Β We could have done the work ourselves, but we chose to train the owner on through-hole soldering. Β She got it working. Β The mini-fridge actually went out again later that week. Β
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