At Repair Cafe this morning I had a novice working with me.

He looked at two LED lamps and between us decided the LED driver, touch dimmer, and USB charger pcb had died on both. They were not repairable.

Meanwhile, I repaired a little Xylophone. The elastic used to hold the tone bars had snapped so I renewed it.

I then helped a chap repair his toaster, he had the parts but not the tools.

I put a new aglet on the end of a shoelace, made from hot glue and heat shrink.

I got a mid century teak chair to repair as homework. All the joints were loose and badly reglued.

My novice had a halogen standard lamp with two built in dimmers. The circuits were fried so we worked out how to convert it to two on/off switches. It will come back next month for the conversion work.

I also provided advice, tooling, and support for the other repairs, and they did likewise for me.

It was a good morning.

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