Hi #DIY friends. Need some #repair advice por favor.
New sump pump arrived with a crack in its outer shell.
Vendor issued refund; didn't want the pump sent back.
Any chance this can be salvaged or repurposed?I I hate to throw away a brand new device that's otherwise perfectly fine.
Much obliged.
/cc: @galooph
Road Show has been playable for some time now and every now and then I check Red's and Ted's mouth mechanism gears. These are prototypes I originally printed out of PLA and I'm very curious to see how those fare in the long run, before printing them out of something harder. So far no issues.
In case your Road Show or Funhouse has either of the mouth gears dead, you can download and print yours from here:
Reduction gear: https://www.printables.com/model/1226708-funhouse-road-show-animatronic-head-jaw-gear-03-84
Sector gear: https://www.printables.com/model/1241735-funhouse-road-show-animatronic-head-sector-gear-03
Reparatur-Treffen Regensburg
Am Dienstag den 1.7. um 19.00Uhr findet das monatliche Reparatur Treffen in den #Mintlabs (Rudolf-Vogt-Str. 18) statt.
Wir sind Regensburg-Repariert.de
#repair #reparatur #repaircafe #RegensburgRepariert #regensburg
@rr @DerReparierer 
Baywatch is having a bad day. Its huge Pin2DMD color display shows just some moving pixels in the upper left corner. Since I've seen it flicker between working and this state, I had a hunch we'd be probably looking at a case of bad cable.
Sure enough, the flat cable between the CPU board and display board appears to have a problem either at or close to the CPU board side connector, as wiggling that makes this go away. I need to order some of this flat cable, its connectors and rebuild it. The process itself isn't that mysterious, I've built whole flat cable sets for Williams games.
Apple finally added iPads to its Self Service #Repair Program!
Great, right? Well…kinda.
Buried beneath the fanfare was a quiet confirmation of what we already knew: iPads are one of the most repair-hostile devices that Apple makes. Want to replace the battery? You'll have to survive 47 steps, glue, and a screen removal process that might end with shards of glass.
BUT! You can do it. We’ve got the guides, but Apple’s design choices make it way harder than it should be.
https://www.ifixit.com/News/110773/apple-finally-admits-that-the-ipad-is-a-beast-to-repair
New technology reduces water pipe repair times from hours to minutes
A trial scheme is cutting average water pipe repair times from three hours to 15 minutes. New ‘no-dig’…
#Europe #UnitedStates #america #Repair #roadclosures #science #SouthernWater #technology #unitedstatesofamerica #US #USA
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New technology reduces water pipe repair times from hours to minutes
A trial scheme is cutting average water pipe repair times from three hours to 15 minutes. New ‘no-dig’…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #america #Repair #roadclosures #science #SouthernWater #technology #unitedstatesofamerica
https://www.europesays.com/2191465/
I've been quite happy to see that the silly #repair stickers I designed some time ago quickly have been grabbed from the sticker pool at #GPN23 
If anyone wants their own for home or repair cafe use, I uploaded everything here for free use: https://github.com/Frickler01/repairstickers/
Spread the word of repairability!
(also it's been my first time ever using inkscape and github, be gentle 
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You’ve probably met Torx, the star-shaped screw that has become common in our phones, consoles, and cars. But have you met Torx Plus? It's the high-tech upgrade nobody told you about: straighter walls, zero cam-out, and way more torque transfer. Sounds great, until you try to open your gadget and realize your trusty T5 doesn’t fit anymore.
We explain the difference between Torx and Torx Plus on our blog: https://www.ifixit.com/News/110702/torx-plus-the-high-tech-screw-hiding-in-our-gadgets
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#iFixit #repair
Fixed the #Thinkpad #P50 #keyboard (it was a bit worse for wear to start with and then some keys just stopped working). Had to put on safety specs for this work - not because of any danger, but this pair has +1,00 lenses which due to #presbyopia make it easier to see the small fiddly connectors for the ribbon cables.. #repair #laptopRepair #maintenance
OK, the #Commodore SX-64 saga is nearing its end! The last gremlin after replacing the VIC-II was a drive that spun and spun; using a known good 1541 I was able to find that the DOS ROM was bad, and replace it with a DOS ROM from a drive with an open head. Now we're in business! #C64 #Commodore64 #retrocomputing #repair
Finally, back on this particular hobby after months of having no spoons for nonessential grimy activities.
This is my Singer 127, rescued from decades of storage after being the least-used machine in a leather repair shop. It has definitely not been serviced since Pittsburgh started cleaning up its coal smoke problem, and is commensurately filthy with black gunk on top of the expected hardened grease lint and dust weasels.
Finally got the presser bar out with some gentle percussive action with the machine on its side. Need to find or make a simply enormous vintage screwdriver before I can get the rest of the “easy to put back together” stuff out of the nose of the machine; the screw for the last bit is like an inch wide with quite a narrow slot, and it hasn’t yielded to the biggest ill-fitting driver I have. It’s probably also time for proper penetrating oil.
Meanwhile, I found the scrubbies that fit the dremel, and omg the front plate is gonna be so gorgeous.
So last Saturday was our second and thus last #RepairCafe in June. I predicted another quite session like the previous one, but everyone was very happy to point out that I got it wrong and we were almost as bust as usual.
We still get new people coming along to become volunteers and so I think that we're still pretty much getting it right. It's all about keeping people happy, isn't it? Short term by volunteering and long term but helping the environment.
It was the VIC-II (MOS 6567). That's fortunate because it's socketed and was easy to diagnose, unfortunate because 6567s are rare as hen's teeth. 6569s (the PAL version) are all over the place. You basically only get a 6567 from a parts donor unit. Which I don't have. For now, I've put in a 6567 from my working breadbin.
Ignore the BAD indicators, those are just because there's no test harness attached. #commodore64 #retrocomputing #repair
wheelchair has a somewhat brittle tire... how about a stylish tubeless TPU replacement with a honeycomb structure? @FreeCAD says YES. printing time says NO :P
OK, I brought my working #Commodore64 home from the office, I'm going to start swapping chips into the working unit. I tried pulling both CIAs, the character ROM, and the SID from the SX-64, as well as swapping the positions of the two CIAs, but the symptoms didn't really change. I'm running out of parts I can pull and still expect any function! #retrocomputing #repair
There is also a growing body of evidence that, at a minimum, some microorganisms suffer negative health consequences when DEPRIVED of ambient (background) radiation. Since life evolved in an ambient radiation environment, this would be evidence that too LITTLE radiation can have negative health consequences. There may be a “goldilocks” radiation zone for Earth life.
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