Repair Cafe Perth

Edit: I may have misheard the store that was suggested. Presumably a 240V plug needs an appropriately rated fuse. Thank you for clarification in the comments.

This morning our Repair Café Perth visitor, Juanita, brought in her World Travel adaptor. She explained to our devices' volunteer, David, that none of the selected options worked.

Luckily David deduced that if the problem wasn't a single selection that failed, it was probably a fuse.

There was some miniscule writing underneath the unit and a very small slotted circle.

And he identified that it needed a 2.5amp fuse.

He explained you can use a small coin to open these slotted access areas. He opened it and found a fuse. It had a small residue of black inside the fuse which presumably meant it had blown.

He advised Juanita to find an suitable outlet who would surely be able to sell her a 240VAC replacement.

Juanita was very pleased with this outcome. We learnt how a simple non-functioning electronic power plug can be fixed. Happy travelling.

Today it's Repair Café Perth morning. 😊

Bring along your broken items that our volunteers are gearing up for right now. We will be set up at North Perth Town Hall, 26 View Street from 9:30am until 11:30am.

See our website at
www.repaircafeperth.org.au/FAQ for ideas about what to bring.

A huge appreciation call to City of Vincent for the venue and annual support.

Are you ready come to our Repair Cafe Perth event tomorrow morning Saturday 19th September? We are at North Perth Town Hall 26 View Street from 9:30am to 11:30am.

Please come early enough for your item to be assessed, seen by our volunteer team and hopefully get your item repaired.

Bruce and Bernie are our Repair Café Perth general repairs' volunteers. It often involves those random repairs which includes gluing (if Lucy, our 'Glue, Tape and String volunteer is unavailable). Between them they all manage to troubleshoot an amazing and astonishing variety of things that are brought in for them.

Last month Trish came in with her dog Bruno. She had a mechanical apple peeler and there was a metal part that was misaligned which meant the apple skin wasn't being removed. Bruce was able to use his pliers and carefully adjusted the metal guide.

Bernie diligently tried to glue together a Harry Potter wand for Spencer who watched patiently. Unfortunately gluing plastic can be variable. Unfortunately none of the available glues that Bernie tried were successful in joining the two halves. Bernie patiently held those two pieces together, over and over again. But in the end it was not repaired.

But Bernie did successful glue a hairclip. 👍 And also drilled out an old rivet, and inserted a new screw and nut on this chair. He also cut off the excess screw thread that a previous repair had left protruding. Now Kerry can safely use this chair again.

All resulted in visitors who enjoy attempts to make a difference and support our culture: Toss It? No way! You can be the difference. One item at a time.

Our Repair Café Perth event is on again this Saturday 19th September at North Perth Town Hall, 26 View Street between 9:30am and 11:30am.

Last month our device's team David, Tom and Hubert were kept busy helping our visitors with their laptops, tablets, operating systems and little electronic issues.

At one point David was sidetracked to a robotic vacuum cleaner whose wheel wasn't spinning. Tom tried to repair a very badly corroded bathroom fan activator, and then Brittany's 2004 Tamagotchi with an unresponsive middle button.

Hubert helped Yuko with a very old laptop. He assisted by doing a Windows update but it was very, very slow and may need an overnight wait to complete.

Our volunteers don't know what will come in the door this Saturday but they will give it a go.

If you have something you'd like to bring along for repair you can check out our website at
www.repaircafeperth.org.au/FAQ

Our textile volunteers were not the only ones kept busy throughout the Waste and Resource Recycling Conference. Bruce, our general repairs volunteer, fixed all sorts of things brought in: jewellery, bags, belts and more.

He also lent assistance to other stall holders in the exhibition hall: a screwdriver here or there, some assistance at the Cleanaway stall, and helping out generally.

None of these were logged on the run sheet. 😉

Please check out some of the images with descriptions below.

Our next Repair Cafe Perth event is on Saturday 19th September at North Perth Town Hall, 26 View Street between 9:30am and 11:30am.

Sharing some of the repairs that were brought in by delegates at the Waste and Resource Recycling Conference these past two days.

Jewellery, clothing, belts, bags and much more. Even a ball gown that needed adjusting for tonight's event. Enjoy the images of lots of happy delegates. We certainly spread the word that repairing, recycling and reducing waste can be done in the most practical manner. And we hope to be invited back next year.

Our volunteers Bruce, Sharon, Angie, Alison and Anna enjoyed the past two days at the Waste and Resource Recycling Conference at the Crown ballroom.

We were kept busy with textiles and general repairs with everything brought in fixed. 100% saved from landfill. 👍

It was very busy the first day but our volunteers worked until close of day. Then came again for day two. Lots of networking and sharing our story. A very, very positive experience with roughly 35-40 items presented. We shared our ethos with like-minded delegates, all of whom were doing their bit, too.

We were grateful for the invitation to be part of it again this year.

Our visitor Michelle brought in her wicker shopping basket on which the handle had become detached.

Our textile volunteer, Trish, carefully explained how she would use a matching coloured thread to sew a firm base onto the basket's top edge, before stitching the handle back in place. It was necessary to give a solid point of strength so that it was secure in use. One can anticipate a heavy load in this basket.

Although only one handle had broken free. Trish also stitched the other handle as it looked like it needed extra support.

Michelle was thrilled to have this repaired so it was better than the original.

She rang the 'Fixed It' bell and everyone cheered.

There were a lot of comments, and much interest, in the Dyson vacuum cleaner repair. Cleaning the contacts so that the head rollers started spinning again. Who could have known, a little dust can stop the power to the head?🙄

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BzAfxPiJU/

Just letting you know that this repair has been sustained. I am looking forward to continuing to use this Dyson V6 vacuum cleaner for a long time before another part dies. I hope this helps others to research your necessary repair in a famous browser search engine. Don't give up until you've checked it out.