🚲 Bikes: it's also the season for biking! Three fixers will be there to try to help fix or adjust your bikes. As you may expect, we don't have spare parts for everything that can be replaced but we have a few (eg. a couple of tires, some brake pads).

🔌 Small appliances: our team of fixers will attempt to repair your electrical household items, like small appliances, or table lamps, etc. Bigger products won't be repaired, as it would be logistically challenging given the limited scope of the event. Also, recent electrical household items with electronics (screens, etc.) are typically more difficult to repair than older electrical items, but feel free to bring any small electrical items along - we can at least take a quick look!

💍 Jewelry: a jewelry repair table will also be set up at the event! Broken links or clasps will be repaired, re-stringing of beads, or gluing of separated cabochons (or similar) will be performed. Not-broken but "poor fit" improvements may also be possible (e.g. chain extensions can allow too-small jewellery to be lengthened; extra large jump hoops can be added to improve ease of attaching clasp).

💻 Computers: if your computer runs Windows 10, you've probably stopped receiving security updates. More than one billion computers are in this situation. One way to solve this problem is to use an alternative system (Linux) as explained by this campaign. We'll be providing this service at the repair café, we'll bring with us a laptop that runs Linux so that you can give it a try yourself, and external hard drives to make backups if you wish to do this migration. If your laptop has a hardware problem, we'll also be looking at it.

🪑 Furniture: feel free to bring a small furniture item (like a broken chair or stool for example), or a broken wooden toy or other small item, we'll see what we can do to fix it.

🔪 Knife and tool sharpening: Given the massive success of this station in Riverport (about 100 tools and knives sharpened on that day!), this popular station will be back in Mahone Bay! We will sharpen any straight or curved steel knife or tool (garden tools, woodworking tools although we won't have the equipment to sharpen planer or jointer blades) but not ceramic ones. We might try to sharpen micro-serrated edges, if needed. We can do most scissors and shears as well.

♻️ Angela from Region 6 Solid Waste management will join us too. She will provide information and insights on reduction, recycling, reuse and compost!

See you there 🙂