Today’s Green Tips Advent Calendar window opens to fix things, because today at our Repair Café, we invited people who needed stuff fixing, to meet people who like fixing things, to repair their faulty items. We do this to save these items from going into landfill, to save resources and to save people money.
What do you do with:
- a toaster that no longer works?
- a faulty vacuum cleaner?
- a sweater with moth holes?
BIN IT? NO WAY!
Wellingborough Repair Cafe takes place on the second Saturday of every month, usually at Glamis Hall, but because today was also their Christmas Festival (where we also had a stall by the way) we changed venues to Tesco Community Room. Todays broken items were:
| Item to be Repaired | Model/Type/Number | Issue description or message | ||
| PS2 | not working | |||
| Russell Hobbs 25930 Stand Mixer | 25930 | Mixer stopped working – no idea why | ||
| Kenwood mixer | Kmc010 14f 22 Serial number 0797653 | My mixer seems to only run on super fast speed where before it started slow and got faster. | ||
| Sewing Machine | Riccar 1000 | needle breaking? | ||
| Stage Visa PA | 200 Light | Unit no longer powers up. Possible power supply issue, originally adhoc issues. | ||
| Radio | Bringing in for 2nd time as it has stopped again. | |||
| Laptop (1) needing a new component, which I have | Latitude 3420 | 1 laptop needs a RAM chip upgrading | ||
| Laptop (2) needing a new component, which I have | Latitude 3420 | the other needs a power port – motherboard cable replacing | ||
| Battery carriage clock | Not working | |||
| Leaf blower | Not working | |||
| Kenwood hand whisk | HM790 | Whisk is pulsing and losing power | ||
| Bingo Machine | Broken Cable |
We fix electricals, I.T. clothes, bicycles, furniture and almost anything. Whatever it is, it might not even be broken – just dirty, and you don’t know how to clean it without damaging it – or you can’t work out how to use it without the manual – book it in on our Repair Cafe page and bring it along. Repairs are free, donations do keep the Repair Cafe going, parts cost.
Here is a great comment Judy (project leader) received last month:
“Hi Judy
Just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and your team for the repair on my toaster! Lovely to have it back in full working order.
Kind regards
Adelle”
We are also seeking more repairers, so if you want to share your skills (whatever they are) to save stuff being thrown away, join us. We would love you to get involved! Message us using the form on our Repair Cafe page or via our Repair Cafe Fagebook group if you are interested. Have a great Christmas everyone.