Repair Cafe Perth

Our electronics volunteer Tony was presented with a string of Christmas lights by Ric, a regular visitor to our Repair Cafe Perth events.

Tony found the faulty light and bypassed it to get the whole string functioning again. Ric has had a few Christmas light strings looked at by our volunteers and it isn't always successful.

This time he was able to roll up the functioning lights and take them home. 👍

We are grateful for the support we receive from the City of Vincent for the venue and environmental grants. Our application has once again been submitted for this year.

Our general repairs' volunteer Bruce was asked by our visitor Jessica about her secateurs. The jaws were not meeting and it wasn't working to cut her plants.

Bruce showed Jessica how the spring looked bent. With a bit of resistance the spring was removed. You can see, in the image, that it does have a slight bend. Bruce searched through his box of springs but he didn't have the exact replacement. He had noticed that when he removed the spring from the secateurs it had been incorrectly positioned.

There were two metal tabs on either arm. Bruce managed to repositioned the spring and luckily, even with the slight bend, the secateurs worked perfectly again.

Yay, another tool saved from landfill. Toss it? No way!

Our devices' volunteer, David, assisted our visitor Alvarez with his radio.

In the past month some of the ABC Radio AM stations have switched to the FM band.
For instance FM 720 and FM 585 are now tuned to FM 102.5 and FM 104.1 respectively. Also AM 810 Radio National had moved to FM 103.3. Alvarez wasn't sure how to retune his digital radio.

David helped by using a search engine browser to look online and found the exact model of Alvarez's radio then searched how to tune in using the online manual.

Maybe you have the same problem. If you any have issues with your devices please come along to our next Repair Café Perth event this Saturday 16th May at the North Perth Town Hall. Details of our event can be found in the 'events' tab of our page. Also you can visit our website on www.repaircafeperth.org.au

Alvarez was very hands-on in learning how to do the change and now has more instructions for his appliance. This is a bonus.