Repair Café\; Comes Back to Wellesley
\n\nThe Rotary Club of Wellesley is bringing back the Repair Café\; Event. It will be held on Saturday March 29th \;from 9:00 AM to Noon at the Wellesley Recreation Center R oom 008.
\n\nWhat is a Repair Café\;?
\n\nRepair Café\;s are free meeting places and they&rs quo\;re all about repairing things (together). At the Repair Café\; event\, you&rsquo\;ll find tools and materials to help you make most repai rs. Repairs can be made on clothes\, furniture\, electrical appliances\, b icycles\, crockery\, appliances\, toys\, et cetera. You&rsquo\;ll also fin d \;expert volunteers\, with repair skills in all kinds of fields.
\n\nVisitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the spec ialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café\;. It&rsq uo\;s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair\, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else&rs quo\;s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table &ndash\; by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.
\n\nPlease register on the Rotary Club of Wellesley&rsquo\;s website. If you have an item to repair\, register as a guest to attend the Café\;. Please list the i tem you want to repair in the comments section of the registration form.\n\n
If you have questions\, feel free to contact John Adams at \; johnfadamsjr@gmail.com \;o r 617-817-0314. If we can talk before the event\, then we can make sure to have the necessary parts for repair available.
\n\nIf you have repa ir skills and want to help out\, please register as a coach.
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\n\nRepair Café\; House Rules
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The work carried out in the Repair Café\; is performe d free of charge on a voluntary basis by the repair experts at hand.
\n \n·\; \; \; \; \;&nb sp\; \; \; Visitors carry out the repairs themselves whenever poss ible\, but repair experts on site can help if necessary.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;& nbsp\; The fact that the repairs are being performed by unpaid volunteers reflects the allocation of risks and limitation of liability. Neither the organizers of the Repair Café\; nor the repair experts are liable fo r any loss that may result from advice or instructions concerning repairs\ , for the loss of items handed over for repair\, for indirect or consequen tial loss or for any other kind of loss resulting from work performed in t he Repair Café\;. The limitations set forth in these house rules sha ll not apply to claims declared justified on the basis of liability arisin g by virtue of applicable consumer protection legislation which cannot be lawfully superseded.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; A voluntary donation is great ly appreciated.
\n\n·\; \;&nb sp\; \; \; \; \; \; Any use of new materials such as l eads\, plugs\, fuses\, ready-made knee bends or applications will be pa id for separately.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visitors offering broken items for repair do so at their own risk.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Experts making repairs offer no guarantee for the repairs carried out with their help an d are not liable if objects that are repaired in the Repair Café\; t urn out not to work properly at home.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Repair exper ts are entitled to refuse to repair certain objects.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Repair experts are not obliged to reassemble disassembled appliances th at cannot be repaired.
\n\n·\;&nb sp\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Visitors to Repair Caf&eacu te\; are solely responsible for the tidy removal of broken objects that co uld not be repaired.
\n\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; To cut down on unnecessary wa iting times during busy periods\, a maximum of ONE broken item per person will be examined. The visitor will join the back of the queue if there is a second item for repair.
\n\nWhy a Repair Ca fé\;?
\n\nWe throw away vast amounts of stuff. Even t hings with almost nothing wrong\, and which could get a new lease on life after a simple repair. The trouble is\, lots of people have forgotten that they can repair things themselves or they no longer know how. Knowing how to make repairs is a skill quickly lost. Society doesn&rsquo\;t always sh ow much appreciation for the people who still have this practical knowledg e\, and against their will they are often left standing on the sidelines. Their experience is never used\, or hardly ever.
\n\nThe Repair Caf& eacute\; changes all that! People who might otherwise be sidelined are get ting involved again. Valuable practical knowledge is getting passed on. Th ings are being used for longer and don&rsquo\;t have to be thrown away. Th is reduces the volume of raw materials and energy needed to make new produ cts. It cuts CO2 emissions\, for example\, because manufacturing new produ cts and recycling old ones causes CO2 to be released.
\n\nThe Repair Café\; teaches people to see their possessions in a new light and\, once again\, to appreciate their value. The Repair Café\; helps cha nge people&rsquo\;s mindset. This is essential to kindle people&rsquo\;s e nthusiasm for a sustainable society.
\n\nMost of all\, the Repair Ca fé\; wants to show how much fun repairing things can be\, and how ea sy it often is. Why don&rsquo\;t you give it a go?
\n\nWe are Not competing with professional repair specialists
\n\nThe Repair Café\; Foundation sometimes gets asked wheth er access to free repair get-togethers is competing with professional repa ir specialists. The answer is\; quite the opposite. Organizers want to use Repair Café\;s across the whole country to focus attention on the p ossibility of getting things repaired. Visitors are frequently advised to go to the few professionals still around
\n\nFurthermore\, people wh o visit Repair Café\;s are not usually customers of repair specialis ts. They say that they normally throw away broken items because paying to have them repaired is\, in general\, too expensive. At the Repair Caf&eacu te\; they learn that you don&rsquo\;t have to throw things away\; there ar e alternatives.
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