Repair Café Toronto has put together the following resources. We hope you will find them helpful:
- Repair Shops in Toronto
- Repair Shops in Scarborough
- iFixit: The Free Repair Manual
- eReplacementParts
- Restart Wiki – a site of shared experience and skills in mending appliances and gadgets.
- Repair Café Information in Translation
- How to Start a Repair Café – includes Outreach Tips, a Basic Supplies List, Steps to Starting a Repair Café (2014 Workshop Powerpoint), Detailed Steps & Questions to Consider when starting a Repair Café and a Volunteer Descriptions Pamphlet.
- A PowerPoint Presentation on Troubleshooting Workshop
- Common Failures Workshop and Soldering 2023
- Toronto Public Library – Electronics Repair Manuals – 275,000+ from 1925 to today
- ElektroTanya – Repair Forums
- Use Waste Wizard to find out what waste items go where in Toronto, and other City offerings to reduce waste.
- You could be using super glue all wrong: https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/youre-using-superglue-all-wrong/
- How to clean your jewellery: https://www.thespruce.com/how-to-clean-any-kind-of-jewelry-8748747?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other
- Watch and learn: Zipper Repair Hacks
- Watch and learn: Michelle Elise’ Zipper Fixing Workshop (Courtesy of Hudson Valley Repair Café)
- Watch and learn: Watch Battery Replacement Tutorial with Rafael Delgado (Courtesy of Hudson Valley Repair Café)
- The end of Window 10: A toolkit for community repair groups – This guide put together by The Restart Project includes additional resources such as discussion of options and how to change the operating system