life of a tinker
I keep wearing out the elbows of my clothes, over the weekend I patched the accumulated holes and made the sleeves longer on one of my hoodies I wear a lot in the winter.
The patch material in flannel, and is probably going to drop threads for a while.
The Velcro square that holds my umbrella closed has been getting unreliable, so I changed it to a button.
My bluetooth headband stopped making sound in one ear, for the second time, so I replaced the second speaker wire.
Soldering so close to the batter terminals makes me nervous, but I did anyways.
The original wire break.
Putting the control module back together. The other end of the wire still needs to be finished.
The wires get soldered to the pads where the old wires were, the wires get a spot of hot glue to stay in place.
The original fabric tape on the back of the speaker didn’t survive pealing it off, so I put a piece of hockey tape over the area to protect everything.
All the guts batch together again.
It all works again.
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/394490027454 – Where this headband came from.
I am well aware that the effort to do the repair is more than the original purchase price. But, I do not need to wait the weeks for delivery, and I get practice.
I like socks that cover most of my legs, but I also destroy the end of my socks with my feet, so I took another worn out sock to patch these socks.
The patches took an afternoon each to pin and sew.
The clothes dryer stopped making heat, again, I replaced the heating element a year ago, and now again.
After confirming the failure was the heating element, the part was ordered, a week later the new heater arrived and was promptly installed. The dryer works again.
I have this zipper bag from the Dollarama, I keep various tools like sockets, ratchets, and screw driver tips in it for easy transport. It is highly overloaded.
The first round of making this bag stronger was to sew some ribbons inside the top part of the body of the bag where it was pulling apart.
This round was to fix up the mesh pocket that has been leaking bits for quite a while.
After a few quiet weeks of slowly working on a new and more relevant business card, I finally settled on one and sent it for printing.
I ordered them from vistaprint, and they arrived in a week or two.
There are no feativals this summer due to a pandemic, but it is always good to work on the kit for future featival experiences.
On a rock in the river at Future Forest, July 2018.