On Sunday, 11 March 2018 08:42:57 UTC, Brian Gaff wrote:
tabbypurr wrote in message
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On Saturday, 10 March 2018 21:18:22 UTC, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
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The two organisations coordinating the events in the UK a
The Restart Project - mainly in London, but also some other countries.
https://therestartproject.org/
Repair Cafe - mainly outside London, and also worldwide.
https://repaircafe.org/en/visit/
The Restart Project, Repair Cafe, and iFixit organisations all
work closely together.

Pretty well all events do electrical and electronic repairs,
and these are normally the most in demand.
Depending on local skills and local demand, you can also find
coverage for laptops, tablets, phones (these can be popular
where the repair skills are available), bikes, mechanical,
furniture, clothes, jewelry, and more.

In addition to repairers, each event also needs organisers,
so even if you don't think you are up to helping people
diagnosing and repairing their things, you can still be
very useful at an event. Some events also pride themselves
on the homemade cakes and other refreshments, and the people
who go to the trouble to make those for the events are also
much appreciated.

And of course, if you have something broken which needs fixing
and you don't have the skills or the tools, you can take it
along. Whilst I'm normally a repairer, I have taken a shirt
along to be repaired when it caught on something and ripped
a button-hole.

why do they have a thing about microwaves?


NT

A thing?
Well microwaves are very dangerous things. Two reasons. the very high
voltages inside them for the magnetron, and also the safety aspect of
running them with the covers off, ie leakage of the RF potentially frying
ones bits.

In the old days CRT TVs were also frowned upon for non skilled people, since
the same problems existed, in this case the radiation could be x Rays.

Running them without the outer cover does not cause leakage, and microwave oven leakage does not fry anyone's bits.


NT