tinkerers save toasters from trash at port coquitlam repair café - small electrical appliances

On Saturday, at the first coffee shop repair event in Port Noble Lam, convenient men and women repaired broken electrical appliances, electronics and clothing.
Aaron Rahn was practicing his "MacGyver skills" on Saturday and he saved an electric fan from a landfill.
Primary school teacher Rahn and financial planner Greg Archibald is one of 35 workers and women who volunteer to repair small household appliances, electronics and clothing for the first repair cafe event in Port Noble Lam.
A steady stream of people visited the "Cafe" in the city's factory yard, bringing broken items that could have been shipped to garbage.
The owner of the broken fan, John Joseph, heard the incident on Twitter after trying to find a new booth for his fans.
He explained that the booth was lost when his family recently moved from Toronto and that he could not buy another one from the company.
"It tells you a lot about our culture of" using and abandoning, "He looked at Rahn and Archibald using the woodworking skills and tools they have collected as homeowners for decades and said to design and design a new booth.
"I want to do it myself, but I have no expertise," said Joseph . ".
"The work they do here is easy to spend me $150.
Project ambassador Mahdis Araujo said: "The concept of repairing a cafe began in Amsterdam in 2009 and soon attracted hundreds of cafes to operate around the world.
Several communities in Vancouver hold cafes every month, which provides a blueprint for the opening of noble harbor.
"One of the most important parts of the event is getting the community together to teach and learn," Araujo said . " He called the restoration skill "Art of Death ".
"The goal is to reduce the amount of waste that comes to urban landfill sites.
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Among the volunteers was a seamstress named Lynn Teeter, a handmade tailor.
Several other women sew patches while working on sewing machines.
"I teach a woman to make up her socks," she said . " She raised a pair of climbing socks with neatly patched holes.
Constantine Ionascu, Brian Lunt and Patrick Madden are repairing the shredder.
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It station, Constantine Ionascu, Brian Lunt and Patrick Madden are trying to determine if the shredder can be repaired.
Electrical engineer Dan Withers is helping Mei Che to make a broken foot massager.
After Withers opened the machine, he quickly found a broken wire and began welding.
Withers says he has always liked to "take things apart and put them together again ".
"He signed up for the event to share his skills with others.
Daryl Ackerman works on his bike.
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Glenda Luymes/PNGBetween helps to repair leaking tires and Darryl Ackerman is trying to get his friend's bike back on the road with a general tune --up.
Ackman, a city employee, said he signed up for help because he himself is also a cyclist and likes to repair his bike.
Maureen Verby brought a broken light to fix it
After a volunteer fixed a wrong connection, she rang the bell of the cafe to let everyone know what was saved.
"If I can't bring it here, I'm not sure what I'll do with it," she said, holding the light under one arm.
"It's a quick fix and now it won't end up in the garbage.
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