Alfred Chow - Maker of Things on Nostr: Yay, three of us in non sewing repairs this morning. That helped. First item, I ...

Yay, three of us in non sewing repairs this morning. That helped.

First item, I helped get into a games console thingy that the client had already part opened. Unfortunately they had also managed to tear off a flexible pcb ribbon making it a non repairable for us. Also it needed a new USB charge port, but the heat needed to desolder/resolder the four grounding pads would have desoldered a load of adjacent surface mount components.

Second item was a tiny Roberts radio. Beyond me, but another repairer had a look and said it was too dead to repair.
In exchange, I looked at the sewing machine they were working on, and fixed that for them.

Third item was a hedge trimmer. I shortened the damaged cable and made adjustments to the safety interlock so that it worked.

Forth item was some Xmas lights. The switch on the battery box was intermittent. I desoldered the switch and took it apart to clean the internal contacts. Then reassembled and resoldered.

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