#selfrepair — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #selfrepair, aggregated by home.social.
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long shot but like
if not here then where?does anyone have any experience in disassembling and repairing an #Olympus #TG4 #Tough camera?
i have one that refuses to turn on, and the battery indicator just cycles 10s-on/1s-off when plugged in or when a fresh battery is inserted. i am guessing that there is some internal corrosion playing silly fuckers with the power chip, but also... if anyone has any experience here, hit me up please?
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long shot but like
if not here then where?does anyone have any experience in disassembling and repairing an #Olympus #TG4 #Tough camera?
i have one that refuses to turn on, and the battery indicator just cycles 10s-on/1s-off when plugged in or when a fresh battery is inserted. i am guessing that there is some internal corrosion playing silly fuckers with the power chip, but also... if anyone has any experience here, hit me up please?
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long shot but like
if not here then where?does anyone have any experience in disassembling and repairing an #Olympus #TG4 #Tough camera?
i have one that refuses to turn on, and the battery indicator just cycles 10s-on/1s-off when plugged in or when a fresh battery is inserted. i am guessing that there is some internal corrosion playing silly fuckers with the power chip, but also... if anyone has any experience here, hit me up please?
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this is for any VW Tiguan owner that has the sunroof drain line problem (e.g. leaking onto the floorpan, soaking wet carpet after rainshowers)
the rear passenger drain hose is extremely easy to get to. it's the front passenger side that's a pain in the ass. just a one minute demo of where to access the drain hose, which is half the battle.
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this is for any VW Tiguan owner that has the sunroof drain line problem (e.g. leaking onto the floorpan, soaking wet carpet after rainshowers)
the rear passenger drain hose is extremely easy to get to. it's the front passenger side that's a pain in the ass. just a one minute demo of where to access the drain hose, which is half the battle.
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keeping your electronics happy doesn't have to involve phone calls for warranty service. many are straightforward jobs that require a sink, a screwdriver, and an episode of DS9 playing in the background.
today's fun bit of elective surgery and preventative maintenance: taking apart and cleaning the brew unit on my GE Profile automatic espresso machine
(if you recognize the shape of this machine, that's probably because SMEG re-shelled the machine and uses identical parts internally. so anything i've done here equally applies to its cousin.)
the manual assures you that there are no user serviceable parts inside, and that only GE's warranty service can do it. it doesn't say that GE stopped offering any kind of service or parts for these machines two years ago.
espresso machine elitists are of zero help as well, toeing the usual line "just go buy a REAL machine like a $2k Lelit that uses standard parts" blah blah.
understandably, everyday people give up and toss these machines in the landfill.
i've owned a half dozen machines and grinders in my life - some in the $3k range, and none of them make an *excellent* espresso for the $200 this machine can.
in the interests of extending its life for as long as possible, some preventative maintenance is super easy to do:
the brew unit detaches from the side of the machine with two squeeze-clips. it has six beefy phillips #2 screws to remove. once those are off, you'll see the guts of the brew unit. it's just a few plastic gears. look how vile they've become after 2 years of daily use 😬 (pic 1)
as soon as i started cleaning it, my fingers got gunky - sticky! all of the parts were gooped in white lithium grease, which had mixed with old coffee and produced quite a mess. i took out all of the gears, and scrubbed them all in the sink with hot water and lots of dish soap. an old toothbrush worked great.
pic 2: the cleaned up parts. cleaning off all the gunk also removed all of the grease, so i re-greased each gear using an old tube of food-grade silicone grease i had laying around from years ago.
pic 3: the brew unit back inside of the machine. you can see the orange plastic squeeze-clips that let you easily remove the brew unit for cleaning.
pic 4: the re-assembled machine, working happily.
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keeping your electronics happy doesn't have to involve phone calls for warranty service. many are straightforward jobs that require a sink, a screwdriver, and an episode of DS9 playing in the background.
today's fun bit of elective surgery and preventative maintenance: taking apart and cleaning the brew unit on my GE Profile automatic espresso machine
(if you recognize the shape of this machine, that's probably because SMEG re-shelled the machine and uses identical parts internally. so anything i've done here equally applies to its cousin.)
the manual assures you that there are no user serviceable parts inside, and that only GE's warranty service can do it. it doesn't say that GE stopped offering any kind of service or parts for these machines two years ago.
espresso machine elitists are of zero help as well, toeing the usual line "just go buy a REAL machine like a $2k Lelit that uses standard parts" blah blah.
understandably, everyday people give up and toss these machines in the landfill.
i've owned a half dozen machines and grinders in my life - some in the $3k range, and none of them make an *excellent* espresso for the $200 this machine can.
in the interests of extending its life for as long as possible, some preventative maintenance is super easy to do:
the brew unit detaches from the side of the machine with two squeeze-clips. it has six beefy phillips #2 screws to remove. once those are off, you'll see the guts of the brew unit. it's just a few plastic gears. look how vile they've become after 2 years of daily use 😬 (pic 1)
as soon as i started cleaning it, my fingers got gunky - sticky! all of the parts were gooped in white lithium grease, which had mixed with old coffee and produced quite a mess. i took out all of the gears, and scrubbed them all in the sink with hot water and lots of dish soap. an old toothbrush worked great.
pic 2: the cleaned up parts. cleaning off all the gunk also removed all of the grease, so i re-greased each gear using an old tube of food-grade silicone grease i had laying around from years ago.
pic 3: the brew unit back inside of the machine. you can see the orange plastic squeeze-clips that let you easily remove the brew unit for cleaning.
pic 4: the re-assembled machine, working happily.
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I was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.
Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.
As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered this screenshot (I think about it a lot) that's attached below, that I saved from a Wired piece (right after the death of Twitter: https://archive.ph/YSCR9) about billionaires not knowing how to 'monetize' smaller groups of happier people, as we keep our tech, some try to fix their own stuff, etc. About how it's not enough to 'build a town square' on. Which is hilarious and ironic.
Billionaires don't give a FUCK about creating a 'town square'. They don't care about people, about us, about the rest of the 99%. They want to extract value until they can't, at whatever cost.
So reuse, keep things, fix things, as much as possible. That's the way of the future. Not these fuckin billionaires and their shitty corporations.
#repair #SelfRepair #RightToRepair #reuse #FixIt #DIY #DIYRepair #thrift #ThriftStores #FuckBillionaires
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I was thinking this morning, there should be more things like Goodwill, more thrift stores like that everywhere, for even LESS things going to landfills. Just people getting together, even as a trade or barter system, things like flea markets or garage sales-- people do some of this already.
Reusing things is so important, and repair, when possible-- I've been seeing some cool self-repair fix-it meetups on here, too.
As I was talking to my wife about it, and I remembered this screenshot (I think about it a lot) that's attached below, that I saved from a Wired piece (right after the death of Twitter: https://archive.ph/YSCR9) about billionaires not knowing how to 'monetize' smaller groups of happier people, as we keep our tech, some try to fix their own stuff, etc. About how it's not enough to 'build a town square' on. Which is hilarious and ironic.
Billionaires don't give a FUCK about creating a 'town square'. They don't care about people, about us, about the rest of the 99%. They want to extract value until they can't, at whatever cost.
So reuse, keep things, fix things, as much as possible. That's the way of the future. Not these fuckin billionaires and their shitty corporations.
#repair #SelfRepair #RightToRepair #reuse #FixIt #DIY #DIYRepair #thrift #ThriftStores #FuckBillionaires
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Ersatz Tonerpatronen für meinen #HP #Drucker (HP #LaserJet MFP M181fw) kosten CHF 250.
Weiss ev. jemand hier, wo es Tonerpulver zum Nachfüllen gibt - am besten inkl. Chips?
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Replacement #toner cartridges for my HP #printer (HP LaserJet MFP M181fw) cost CHF 250.
Does anyone here know where to get toner powder for refilling - preferably including chips?#obsoleszenz #geplanteobsoleszenz #LaserjetMFP #selbermachen #repair #selfrepair #recycle #diy #waste #ReduceReuseRepairRecycle
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Unser monatlicher @codeforde out in the #open Beitrag (https://codefor.de/blog/out-in-the-open-january-2024/) greift mit "If you can't fix it, you don't own it" einen der Leitsätze des #selfrepair Manifestos (https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto) (bzw. auf Deutsch "Wenn Du es nicht reparieren kannst, dann gehört es Dir nicht" (https://de.ifixit.com/Manifesto)) auf.
Denn auch #OpenSource ist in gewisser Weise das Recht auf Reparatur, nur eben für #Software (https://macaw.social/@andypiper/111774169944729337). Für die Reparatur von Hardware gibt es bereits in vielen Städten #RepairCafe|s (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair-Caf%C3%A9 und
https://www.repaircafe.org/de/) und Offene Werkstätten (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbsthilfewerkstatt). Für Software sind #Hackspace|s und #coderetreat (https://www.coderetreat.org/) Events vergleichbar.Passend dazu läuft dieses Wochenende mit der #FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2024/) eine Vernetzungsveranstaltung für free and open source software #FOSS.
Um unserer #Wegwerfgesellschaft, #Ressourcenverschwendung und #Vermüllung entgegen zu wirken, wurde jetzt Anfang Februar ein EU-weiter Rechtsanspruch auf Reparatur (allerdings nur für weiße Ware) verabschiedet (https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/eu-einigung-recht-auf-reparatur-100.html). Für die Beschaffung von Software in der öffentlichen Verwaltung haben bisher allerdings nur wenige Bundesländer im #Vergabrecht verankert, OpenSource zu priorisieren. Auf Bundesebene gibt es bisher auch noch keine Gesetzesinitiative, die entsprechenden Pläne aus dem Koalitionsvertrag umzusetzen, obwohl es inzwischen ein juristisches Gutachten von der @OSBA gibt (https://www.vergabeblog.de/2023-05-25/gutachten-zur-vorrangigen-beschaffung-von-open-source-software-durch-die-bundesverwaltung/).
Aber auch unsere #Demokratie braucht ein #RechtAufReparatur. Entsprechende #Demokratiecafe|s gibt es bereits: https://fordemocracy.hypotheses.org/tag/repair-democracy
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Unser monatlicher @codeforde out in the #open Beitrag (https://codefor.de/blog/out-in-the-open-january-2024/) greift mit "If you can't fix it, you don't own it" einen der Leitsätze des #selfrepair Manifestos (https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto) (bzw. auf Deutsch "Wenn Du es nicht reparieren kannst, dann gehört es Dir nicht" (https://de.ifixit.com/Manifesto)) auf.
Denn auch #OpenSource ist in gewisser Weise das Recht auf Reparatur, nur eben für #Software (https://macaw.social/@andypiper/111774169944729337). Für die Reparatur von Hardware gibt es bereits in vielen Städten #RepairCafe|s (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repair-Caf%C3%A9 und
https://www.repaircafe.org/de/) und Offene Werkstätten (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selbsthilfewerkstatt). Für Software sind #Hackspace|s und #coderetreat (https://www.coderetreat.org/) Events vergleichbar.Passend dazu läuft dieses Wochenende mit der #FOSDEM (https://fosdem.org/2024/) eine Vernetzungsveranstaltung für free and open source software #FOSS.
Um unserer #Wegwerfgesellschaft, #Ressourcenverschwendung und #Vermüllung entgegen zu wirken, wurde jetzt Anfang Februar ein EU-weiter Rechtsanspruch auf Reparatur (allerdings nur für weiße Ware) verabschiedet (https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/verbraucher/eu-einigung-recht-auf-reparatur-100.html). Für die Beschaffung von Software in der öffentlichen Verwaltung haben bisher allerdings nur wenige Bundesländer im #Vergabrecht verankert, OpenSource zu priorisieren. Auf Bundesebene gibt es bisher auch noch keine Gesetzesinitiative, die entsprechenden Pläne aus dem Koalitionsvertrag umzusetzen, obwohl es inzwischen ein juristisches Gutachten von der @OSBA gibt (https://www.vergabeblog.de/2023-05-25/gutachten-zur-vorrangigen-beschaffung-von-open-source-software-durch-die-bundesverwaltung/).
Aber auch unsere #Demokratie braucht ein #RechtAufReparatur. Entsprechende #Demokratiecafe|s gibt es bereits: https://fordemocracy.hypotheses.org/tag/repair-democracy
