Throwing this out into the ether on the off-chance:
I have a Green Power Electric Boot Scooter BH220. I need to remove the battery. Green Power won't tell me how as they want to charge for an engineer to come out.
It has a handle and I'm meant to be able to take it inside to charge it. I was shown how to remove it when I first got it, but I can't remember. I can lift w/handle, but it feels stuck at the front end. How do I release it? #Mobility#disabled#MobilityScooter#Repair
Folk might be interested to know that across the month of May, Sustainable Fashion Week’s #MendItMay campaign invites people to mend one piece of clothing, celebrating repair as an act of empowerment.
I think I'll have a go at my #mending pile. If anyone wants to share mending projects or #craft pics, that'd be lovely.
The stats for why #repair is great are pretty compelling:
Die blauen LEDs eines Scheinwerfers flackern oder fallen ganz aus. Defekt ist der dazugehörige Transistor. Nach dem Austausch funktioniert der Scheinwerfer wieder einwandfrei.
Ignore the dust. This is the unit bearing the front USB3 ports of my PC case, a CoolerMaster N400. When opening this, I thought I would find a circuit board that I can easily trace and solder. Nope. It's just a piece of black plastic held together by dark forces. The lower port is broken. It works if I bend it upwards with considerable force, but it doesn't stay like that. I assume it's a broken solder joint and there's still a PCB inside. I wonder if the plastic would be able to withstand 150°C or so for 10 minutes. Maybe I could try reflowing it with the case on? #Repair#USB#DIY#Electronics#Computer#PC
J'ai tenté avec de la UHU Plast de recoller des morceaux coupés sous le plateau (il y a le nombril du moulage), mais au final ça restait mou et j'ai sorti l'air chaud à 200°C pour former ça.
C'est assez moche car j'ai commencé par vouloir faire ça avec du papier autour, mauvaise idée car des fibres restent. Mais bon, c'est suffisant, et ça tient.
@FerdiMagellan Even better: We should not buy too much. It's not only the manufacturers, it's the people who buy #fastFashion.
I organise workshops for #VisibleMending, a statement for #repair. So often I meet people who laugh at me. The smallest stain, the slightest wear and tear: they throw almost new items in the bin instead of donating them.
For the manufacturer-waste: We would have to investigate their mafia connections to the dessert, it's not easy. The activists there are threatened.
We are proud to yesterday have been in the UK Parliament demonstrating repair and talking about #RightToRepair with MPs, allies, community repair groups from all over the country
Fantastic to host Patrick Grady MP at the Parliamentary #RepairCafe with BackMarket.
Consumers should be empowered to make the choice to #repair their tech devices or opt to buy refurbished – and to achieve that, policymakers need to take action.
#VisibleMending is not only for #clothes. This #colourful#handbag with abstract roses helped me against dark winter days. Suddenly I discovered this terrible hole and decided to mend it. It was not easy to find the fabric (more in the Alt texts) but I saved my handbag! 😊 And now it's a unique piece of individual design! @visiblemending@sewing
The DC rails on this failed switching power supply from a wall wort AC adapter, were shorted together. It could be one of 4 components: 2 electrolytic capacitors, a surfacemount ceramic capacitor, or a surfacemount Schottky diode. Started desoldering each one and testing for the short. It cleared when the Schottky diode (SK26) was removed
The voltages on this side of the switch mode power supply are not expected to be much higher than 12V DC. This wall wort is rated at 600mA 7.2VA. The electrolytic caps are only rated up to 16V
So excited, as I’ve wanted this grinder for a while, but too damn cheap to upgrade from my now-janky Hario grinder. I broke the base of my Hario a few years ago and screwed in a mason jar at the bottom (it fits!), but will be happy to have a better grinding experience now. Still love having an all-manual setup. #coffee#thriftshop
So there was play in the gears and it wouldn’t grind properly, kept slipping. Bought a $0.37 bushing, fixed the problem and works great now. I love keeping discarded things alive. #repair
It's got just about warm enough to start hanging out in the barn so I'm back on with the pianola restoration! Just cleaning keys but I'll be tuning it soon!
Garden table restoration. This old folding table got smashed by a flying chair last autumn. I didn't have anything matching the original resin plate, but I did have a lot of wood packing spacers.
But they're all angled and vary in thickness. So I nailed them together, punched the nails down and then planed the planks.
Yes, a thickness planer would be lovely to have, but this worked. Some leftover wood stain and it looks nice.
"#Tangara is a portable #musicplayer. It outputs high-quality sound through a 3.5 mm headphone jack or Bluetooth, has great battery life, and includes a processor that’s powerful enough to support any audio format you can throw at it. It’s also 100% #openhardware running #opensource software, which makes it easy to customize, #repair, and upgrade. Tangara plays what you want to hear, however you want to hear it." https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara
Last week my #VIC20, my first computer and still one of my favourite retrocomputers fell on the floor from a shelf. The 40-year old ABS case is brittle and broke right on top of the user and cassette ports. The Run Stop key also fell off 😩 #retrocomputing#repair#thread#commodore
So thankfully the strange 3-way pickup selector switch anomaly on the Danelectro 59M is covered under warranty. Taking it in this week to be shipped to the service department in Vancouver for a new switch. #guitars#gearsquad#repair
am Samstag, den 27.04.2024 findet wieder unser "Repair-Café für Elektro-Kleingeräte" von der Bremer Stadtreinigung und der Bremer Umwelt Beratung statt. Wer defekte Elektro-Kleingeräte wie Toaster, Staubsauger, Radios oder Mixer hat, findet kundige Technikerinnen und Techniker, die oft eine Lösung finden oder Tipps geben können. Nach Möglichkeit bringt bitte Bedienungsanleitungen, Schaltpläne und Fernbedienungen mit.