Take the Repair Plunge

About three years ago my already rather old laptop started behaving very erratically - sudden freezing, getting slower and slower - generally, becoming a pain.

Eventually I worked out it was overheating. Usually this is dust on the fan. Dust everywhere, in fact. I knew fixing this would mean taking the thing apart,and worse, putting it back together again. The other options - getting a replacement or taking it to a computer shop for repair, both involved cost, and replacement a great deal of hassle (transferring all the files and so on).

So I decided to 'do-it-myself'.

I went on You Tube, found a good tutorial, followed it, and took my laptop apart, cleaned it, put it back together again. Only one screw left over, so, a result.

I felt a genuine sense of achievement.

And that laptop is still going, albeit as a back-up machine.

Bikes are another thing that can be repaired at home or in the shed, if you're lucky enough to have one.

Dunx Cycles in the High Street used to run 'roadside repair' workshops, and Duncan tells me they may well start up again after we get out of Covid-19.

In the mean time he recommended GCN Tutorials on You Tube - "They really know their stuff".