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The joy of fixing things

Thpsguy

So I learned to fix a ps2 blue disc issue many years ago by cleaning the lens and I also fixed a jammed Instax camera 

Now I'm fixing a toy cash register from the 80s and it's so fun figuring out how it works. And why it's not working 

So far I've figured out that when I finally manage to get the cash drawer to open using the button it's hard to shut the draw so. I did a. Full strip down to figure out why so now once the plastic cement fuses two parts that snapped I need to figure out how to reassemble yhe tabs and buttons so it all connects then it's figuring rhe actual first issue out 

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  • I love to fix things and have been doing this for around 40 years since my first motorbike needed some repairs and I couldn't afford to take it to a garage.

    I ended up doing more and more complex repairs and eventually complete restorations of old motorbikes, stripping engines down to the last nuts and bolts, measuring and replacing / repairing parts until the bike was in showroom condition.

    Then came married life and around 20 years of a different focus but in the last 5 years I started buying old properties (150 years old apartments) and renovating these in a back to bricks / rafters renovations. The scale of this was daunting but was incredibly satisfying when the end result was a beautiful place to live and a huge profit when resold too.

    The last few years I retired early at 55 and renovate 60 year old apartments in Brazil now - somewhere warm and cheap to live where I only need to work a few months a year in my own time to cover all my living costs as well as enough to travel the world.

    Once you realise that the techniques you use to fix small stuff actually form an approach that can scale up to almost anything then with a bit of research you can tackle anything you have the tools and strength for.

    At one stage my company was selling off its old server room contents after an office move so I bought these for a few hundred pounds, hired some guys to move everything to my home and I cleaned, tested and reconfigured everything then resold it on eBay to make around £10k profit

    I found instructions to do all that work online and anything that was broken was stripped down and I sold the circuit boards and steel cases for scrap too - environmentally friendly as well as profitable.

    Good luck in your projects and I hope your confidence and skills continue to grow.

  • in reply to Iain

    So impressive, Iaian. There are so many young people without jobs, I'm sure many could be encouraged by doing things like this with their hands.

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