#Fixing stuff

[charlesartthings]

Another Episode of me telling you to go fix your Stuff

[balkanradfem]

I'm here to brag!

The lady I care for needed me to clean two big fans she used in the summer. It's too cold now for them to be useful so she wanted to put them in storage.

In order for them to be cleaned, they needed to be taken apart, and she was very anxious about the second one. I had no anxiety about it whatsoever. The first one was held together by one screw and a few clips. It came apart easily. I cleaned it no problem, and then I eagerly came for the second one.

"Wait!" She stopped me anxiously. "We need to call the neighbour, he put it together the last time, it took half an hour, it was really difficult." I know the neighbour in question, he's the one who called me waitress. So I'm like "Well, I just need to take it apart to clean it, we'll figure out assembling it later. Let me try?" And she nods, understanding.

I take it apart and its held together by a thin strip of plastic and one screw. I clean it and decide to put it back together for storage.

"There's no chance for you to do this." The horrible male was watching me, as usual. "Me and ____ barely managed to put it together, and it took forever. You won't make it."

And I'm thinking, yeah you two with your male brains would take forever to put one fan together. I took apart my laptop yesterday, I am a woman, I am more intelligent and will put it together in a second.

"Well I can try." I say.

He leaves me be. Woman grabs the phone and phones the neighbour, asking him to come over to 'put something back together'. She has zero faith in me. But I have plenty.

Using my brain I quickly figure out that its very clumsy to hold both pieces of fan together and try to screw the plastic strip around it, but very easy to fasten the strip around one part, then add the second and screw them tight together. It was done in under 60 seconds.

I bring it inside. "I think its done." I say confidently. The woman checks it out. She's confused. This was supposed to be impossible, according to the male 'experts'.

"Good job." The horrible male says, sounding impressed for once. But I don't care about the opinion of a male who can't put a fan together. 

"I'll put them in storage." I smile to the woman. "Yeah!' She agrees.

"It probably was easier to fit it back after it was done once." I hear him say as I leave. Of course it was. She agreees sheepishly.

It keeps happening, the male claiming something can't be done and then I do it easily. I hope she's noticing. I hope she knows now their words are not the law. They just say whatever to make themselves look good. They struggle to even assemble a fan!

If a male ever says something is hard, assume he just did not have any brainpower at his disposal and for you it will be easy. Thats exactly how it works out in reality!

[catnipuff]

Redrawing my old drawing

it’s from 2 years ago. I hope I improved :P

I also added glowy shit to the new drawing bc I was bored

[bitchesgetriches]

You Have the Frugal Right to Repair Your Shit. Or Do You? 

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[gallifreyanconsultingphilosopher]

Yet another entry in the chronicles of "I'm Going To Fix This Even Though My Solution is More Convoluted Than Buying A New Thing"

The strap hadn't actually broke yet, but I could see it wearing down so I just bought a small panel of leather, took some waxed twine and a thick needle and sewed it on after cutting off the part that was wearing out so I could measure it. Don't ask me how much physical effort the sewing took.

I didn't feel like sewing across the top of the patch, but my dad has plenty of rivets so I used two of those; no point buying leather rivets when these alunimum ones work just fine. The patch is askew on one side because I'd only sewed one half of the patch on before putting the rivets in; I had the idea to use rivets in the middle of sewing so I ended up putting them in before finishing sewing.

It all turned out fine in my opinion anyway. Will probably use some wax to seal the edges of the leather at some point.

(I'm aware you can buy detachable straps for bags but the ones I found only had clips in rose gold, and I don't shop online unless it's my only option. Also, I just enjoy fixing things.)

[cryptid-crow-wizard]

sometimes you gotta fix your shoes with duct tape cause you’re staying at a friend, don’t have backup shoes and didn’t realize your shoes soles have decided to split in half until you stepped in a puddle

[brainmachinebroke]

I like to mess with electronics, can you tell?

[problematicghosty]

I’m only going to fix my clothes with fun coloured thread from now on

[tareis]

Finally got my windows xp computer working thank good it took literally four ever

[my-ass-as-cold-as-mars]

letting myself be cringe is good for my little stoned soul

I TRUST YOU SLAVIC MAN

[syncallio]

I swear to you all that I will post the green Screamer (it's worse than the gray one!), it's just that right now I have a more urgent project. My Nintendo Pro controller is acting up. I gotta swap out the right joystick module thingy.

Fortunately I already have the part. They're sold in pairs and I swapped out the left one a couple years ago.

Of course this time I had to buy a proper soldering tool, because the one I got before was a crappy cheap one. Which means I spent considerably more on a nice Hakko station than what the Pro controller cost in the first place.

Still, not as bad as the first time I bought a broken Parker Vacumatic and decided to shell out for the special tool you need to remove the back end. By strange chance I have not needed that tool since.

(I have so many tools...)

[charlesartthings]

How I (and you could too) fixed my glasses.

Repair your shit everyone

If you don’t have wire, paper clips work just fine if not easier.

Cut a piece of wire, and feed it through the holes the screws would go. pinch them close with pliers. Wirh a thinner wire tweezers, scissors or just your hands might work fine.

Go repair your things, it can be easier than you think.

[wormspoodle]

compiled some things

[scoundrellyfeline]

I LOVE FIXING MY WEBSITE YAYYYYYYYYYY (flashing, troll romance)

[bitchesgetriches]

You Have the Frugal Right to Repair Your Shit. Or Do You?

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[crochetwizardman]

Every time I have to fix something with floral wire and super glue god transes someone's gender