Category: What It’s Like to Fix

Stories from the people who work on weird, wonderful, or wild devices.

Soldering Simplified: A Newbie’s Guide to Through-Hole Soldering

Perhaps you’re at the same point in your repair journey as me: I know my way around a screwdriver and spudger, have popped many a cable and swapped my share…

July 25, 2024

by Connor Bassolino - iFixit

What It's Like to Fix

What It’s Like to Fix: Linotype, Intertype, and Old Presses

This is What It’s Like to Fix, an occasional series detailing the different kinds of work, and people, needed to fix the world. When I started work as a newspaper…

September 9, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

What It's Like to Fix

What It’s Like to Fix: Postage Meters

This is What It’s Like to Fix, an occasional series detailing the different kinds of work, and people, needed to fix the world. There is the mail you get from…

July 6, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

What It's Like to Fix

What It’s Like to Fix: Surfboards

This is What It’s Like to Fix, an occasional series detailing the different kinds of work, and people, needed to fix the world. Surfboards, despite their friendly shape and easy-going…

June 21, 2021

by Kevin Purdy

Tech News

Five Ways to Fix, Patch, and Mend Your Favorite Clothes

Some people have a strict mental hierarchy of Things You Can Fix and Things You Cannot Imagine Fixing. Me, I get hung up on clothing. When I encounter a rip…

August 15, 2019

by Kevin Purdy