Many people seem to accept the fact, that once one of your objects is broken, it’s lost. They throw it away and buy a new one. This hasn’t been like this for a very long time, and it doesn’t have to be that way in the future. It only takes…

3D-Printing has been around for a while but still is in its infancy. In my eyes we are currently in a stage which corresponds to the dot matrix printers 40 years ago. Some geeks use them, the software (word processing) is hard to use and no one knows them and…

Today I repaired a toy from my daughter. A handle from a cheap plastic toy that creates bubbles broke off. I 3d printed a holder that I could glue to the part, that fell off the toy. Unfortunately, I used the black filament, which I had loaded in the printer…

Thermal fuses are the source of many non-working electrical devices. As I have written in my previous article, they are used in varied devices such as hair dryers, blenders or ovens. Everything that produces heat or can produce heat when abused usually contains one of these fuses. If such a…

A friend of mine has a battery-powered vacuum cleaner. Unfortunately, said battery died on him. This is nothing too surprising. Batteries are guaranteed to fail on you after some years. He tried to get a new battery through the regular channels, but he failed. When he asked the shop he…

In the repair café where I repair stuff on a regular basis, we have a whole drawer of thermal fuses. They get used very frequently, last Tuesday I fixed two devices which had a blown thermal fuse. This made me think about these little devices and whether they are bad…

Sometimes, when you want to repair something, it almost falls apart, and sometimes it is impossible to open it without destroying it. If that happens repair is often out of the question. And once you have it all apart, it can be quite tricky to reassemble everything because you forgot…

In shop class in school, I’ve always had good grades. Not because I created nice things but because I repaired the broken tools in the workshop. I vividly remember a circular hand saw that no longer worked. I probably wasn’t even allowed to use it without supervision, but I opened…