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Does anyone have a quick an easy way to estimate the weight of the items that pass through the Repair Cafe? I know that the Restart Project record this information, but RC doesn't appear to.

Thoughts please.

Martin

Have things improved on the insurance front since we last posted here? We pay £250pa for the Repair Cafe recommended insurance. Can we do better?

So what are the alternatives to Repair Monitor? I'd love to use it but the interface isn't good enough yet to make that possible when you have a long queue of items to be logged in quickly.

I've spoken with the Repair Cafe people and asked if there are other ways to add our items to the same database, but there's no other real alternative. I think you can use the Open Repair Standard (restartproject) but this is meant primarily for electronics. Repair Monitor also won't open up an API or bulk upload for us to use.

Has anyone had any more success with ways to log items?

I shall be bringing up the subject of insurance at the Repair Cafe Conference on Thursday (12 March 2020)

I agree that getting insurance is currently an issue and one that needs a consolidated approach.

Martin

Do other UK Repair Cafes organise their own public insurances? At the moment, we are covered by the venues that we work at but we would like to have our own so that we can hold pop-up events and work at other venues.

Well, we used Repair Monitor for the first time yesterday and whilst it looks like a very good basis, it clearly still needs work. Does anyone from Repair Monitor read this forum topic?

Hi,

Link for anyone who doesn't know what Repair Monitor is (which included me until 2 minutes ago). https://repairmonitor.org/en

Our RC has been logging appropriate items with the Restart Project (where appropriate) but I think that we will probably switch to this now. I'll give more feedback once we have actually used it a few times.

Martin