Had a Repair Cafe today!

The local library hosts one every quarter. This was the second one and we had 50 people show up! We're hoping to start offering it more frequently, they're just ramping up.

I was there for bike repair. I used to have a solid kit built out, but lost a lot of my tools in previous moves, so I'm building it out again.

I had two bikes that came in today. I tuned rear derailleurs and break lines. Swapped out some break pads. Pumped up tires and did some basic cleaning.

I made a note to bring some CLP and rags for the next go around as cleaning off gunk solves a lot of problems.

I was backup for laptop repairs and Linux installs (the local Linux Install Party showed up!) but focused mainly on bikes.

Others did electronics fixing and clothes mending, etc.

I met some folks. One person from a local church group that is interested in maybe hosting a free fridge or otherwise volunteering with my food group and a person from the town's green initiative that is interested in personally working with my food group.

There is a lot of overlap with various mutual aid groups. You get started with one and you end up learning about all the others!

It was a good day.

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