Repair Cafe at Rlab on Sunday 19th

[Stuart Ward]

Chaps

Just a reminder that we will have the Repair Cafe at rlab soon. So firstly looking for people to eat cake, chat, and perhaps assist people with repairing things. We also need to tidy up, and with the wonderful new storage cabinets that will be easy.

Stuart

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[Matthew Daubney]

Hi Stuart,

Remind me closer to the time and I will be down to help.

[Ryan .]

I can be there for a few hours this afternoon and tomorrow morning...is anyone else around??

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[Richard / rgproduct]

Heidi and i coming Sunday afternoon to help etc.

[Tara Martel]

Already cleared my diary especially.

[Matthew Daubney]

I'm not doing great this morning, so apologies for running late. I shall hopefully be down for a bit later on to help tidy.

On Monday, 6 July 2015 09:05:03 UTC+1, Stuart Ward wrote:

[Stuart Ward]

I am planning to come down.  Will be there around 16:30

[Dimitri Modderman]

Hi RLab'ers,

I was just wondering how your repaircafe went yesterday ?

How many people showed up ?

What stuff was brought in that was broken ?

What was your success rate ?

In our space ( https://bitlair.nl ) we do Repair cafes once a month but we have people coming in with like "broken" coffeemachines that basically are just more lab environment where strange new species of Microbes are formed (in other words, stuff is dirty as hell and really just needs a cleaning). "Yeah a light's just gone on, i dunno what it is..." Well the light says CLEAN MACHINE, what do you think yourself ?

Wondering if you have people like that as well.

Kind regards,
Dimitri

[Stuart Ward]

On 20 July 2015 at 10:47, Dimitri Modderman <dimitri....@gmail.com> wrote:

I was just wondering how your repair cafe went yesterday ?

I was generally quiet. Not sure if that was because of people away on holidays, or a failure of our publicity machine...

We did about 20 repairs, but I didn't manage to capture a list of them all and whether they were successful. My feeling is that we were probably around our average of 60% success. We had about £25 in donations.

[mikethebee]

Hi Dimitri,

Stuart covered it really, but we were missing 2 popular Repairers and, the knife & sheer sharpener and the bike specialist and several other popular people. Other repairers can cover the bike repairs, but there is a also dedicated Bike Repair Cafe in town and I wonder if they got most of the bike people.

The Repair Cafe also alternates between premises in the town centre and rLab, and between Sat and Sunday depending on events. The town centre on a Saturday is often the busiest. 

We do get our share of 'clean me's, but there are also the ones that make it worthwhile, such as the Mum with a 'soon to be' new baby who came with a broken steam cleaner.

The cleaner was quite new and costly on a single mum's budget, and she knew what the problem was but was not confident to dismantle it. The problem was, as noted, the steam pipe being pulled off the mop part by the baby's autistic brother. As she had planned a major clean-up in preparation for the new babe and the mop was seen as a vital tool.

We undid a couple of screws, refitted the pipe and voila! all was well with the world. Mum was really grateful and insisted on a donation from the savings in buying a new one.

We had an added repairer this too, Tara was mending shoes, boots and leather stuff, and was kept busy all afternoon.

Good to hear from you again,

-Mike

[Dimitri Modderman]

Wow Stuart and Mike,

That is awesome, we never had 20 people on one day, so well done.
Like the story about the single mum. Well done. Also mending the shoes by tara, really cool!
Nice! Keep up the good work. In August i hope to do another tour visiting UK friends, maybe i drop by at Rlab ? (if possible, time permits etc).
This will be from 19th august until like end of august or the likes.. But ofcourse i will let you know in advance.
Also visiting EMF Camp 2016 is in the planning!!!

Kind regards,
Dimitri



On Monday, July 6, 2015 at 10:05:03 AM UTC+2, Stuart Ward wrote:

[Tara Martel]

In truth I only repaired the one pair of sandals though I was already working on a riding boot for a colleague so well within the spirit of RC I suppose.

I did learn a new skill, something I always wanted to try since watching an old cobbler do it about 40 years ago!