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1. Martine Postma
Photo caption: Martine Postma, initiator of the Repair Café
Credits: Martin Waalboer / Repair Café Foundation

2. Repair together
Photo caption: Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they're all about repairing things (together)
Credits: Martin Waalboer / Repair Café Foundation

[How does it work?]

If you have taken a nice Repair Café photo and you want to share it with others, you can upload your photo in the Repair Café image archive. If you are looking for a nice Repair Café photo, you can find it and download it here.

How does it work?
Step 1. Go to the 'image archive' and click on 'reply';
Step 2. Click on 'Attachments and other options' and select the files you want to upload.
Step 3. In the response field, enter: the file name, the caption and the credits, so the photographer and the owner.
Step 4. Click on 'Preview' if you want to check your photos and your message. Everything ok? Click 'Save'.

You can use the first response by administrator Nina as an example.

What are the rules of this image archive?
- The photos in this image archive may be used by anyone for communication and publicity purposes.
- All the people in these photos have given permission for this to the person publishing the photo in the image archive.
- Anyone who uses the photos in this image archive includes the relevant credits with the photos.

If you have taken a nice Repair Café photo and you want to share it with others, you can upload your photo in the Repair Café image archive. If you are looking for a nice Repair Café photo, you can find it and download it here.

You want to repair something because it is broken, or it seems to be broken. Your guitar, the dishwasher, hedge trimmer or your phone. It could be anything. The solution is often surprisingly simple. On website manuall.co.uk/repaircafe you can find all manuals, instructions and drawings. You can download them free of charge. If you can't work it out: visit a Repair Café or ask a handy neighbour to help you out.

Some potential places to look for volunteers are:

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Hi Mary,
Richards advice shows an adequate analysis, probably the frame, small chance of the fork holding the front wheel.
Strickly spoken I am not in favour of welding irrespective of the type of frame.
Steel bike frames with lugs are soldered: using a silver/metal alloy, at temperatures of around 1000 degrees. Welding on this type of frames can cause a circle around the weld that is brittle and, due to the dynamic forces on the frame, is the next spot where the frame brakes again.
(Due to the higher temperature when welding, the carbon in the steel migrates and concentrates in a specific temperature zone, causing the brittleness)
DeBewerker

When riding my bike, lately the whole bike is shaking like crazy. I can hardly let go one of my hands off the handlebar. Both wheels seem round and not buckled. They are not loose either, at least I can