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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by emodendroket on Saturday March 17, 2018 @11:58AM (#16607519)
Those all seem like things you could fix
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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by mseebach on Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:06PM (#16607557)
Yes, but there's a certain futility in spending 30 minutes repairing a $5 widget when the $8 widget wouldn't have broken in the first place.
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Re:Repair cafés waging war on throwaway culture by convolvatron on Saturday March 17, 2018 @12:05PM (#16607552)
sometimes there isn't enough plastic. but for slightly higher quality goods the threaded standoffs will often have enough material to take a wider machine thread, and enough strength to keep them for several cycles.
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