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We’re inspired by people who put things back together. Meet the crafty folks pushing the boundaries of repair.

Making a Motorcycle Talk: A Story of Motorcycle Repair

From Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work: "Seeing a motorcycle about to leave my shop under its own power, several days after arriving…

April 10, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

The Hand Tool Shortage That Stalled WWII

I wouldn't have thought that the powerful Allied forces could have been stalled by a lack of wrenches and hammers—just as I wouldn't have expected that American soldiers in Iraq…

April 9, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

It’s Important to Have a Back-Up Option

I took this photo in Seelampur, after exploring the second-hand electronics market and watching some e-waste processing. In Delhi, I saw fixers turning almost any space into a repair space.…

April 7, 2012

by Kyle Wiens - iFixit

Repair Stories

Fixing My Daughter’s Voice: An Important Battery Replacement

Nate Hanson's 8-year-old daughter, Whitney, has an iPhone 3GS. But she doesn't use it to call her friends or play video games, as you might expect. Rather, for Whitney, the…

April 6, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

New iPad Opening Tool

We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a…

April 1, 2012

by Kyle Wiens - iFixit

Repair Stories

The Bad Kind of Crunch: A Broken LCD Screen

Italian air traffic controller Luca Vetturi closed his laptop and heard a sickening crunch—upon opening it again, he discovered that he had accidentally left an earphone inside. Spider-webbed cracks spread…

March 24, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

The Right Tools: Two Nano Battery Replacements

Trevor Bugera submitted a story this week about fixing two iPods—his wife's Mini and her friend's Nano. Neither iPod would hold a charge, and the Mini recently started showing the…

March 11, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Repair Stories

It’s Alive! Two Broken iBooks Become One Working Computer

When Juan Ordonez's elementary-school-aged daughter started clamoring for a computer, he had an idea. Rather than buy her a brand new laptop and pay for all kinds of fancy capabilities…

March 10, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Fixers

Women in Computers: Don’t You Know that Grandma’s the Fix-It Girl?

Jodi Spangler has worked a lot of interesting jobs. She climbed telephone poles for a while in Michigan (until she fell off a pole from twelve feet in the air).…

March 9, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits!

Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found…

March 6, 2012

by Miro Djuric