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Valentine's Day 2026 at Vigo

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A busy day with visitors bringing a wide variety of items for repair.   How many can you identify in this one minute silent video? (zoom to see larger)   PLUS A pair of spectacles  A pair of kettles  A garden clock   And a lot of sewing repairs

Gravesend 5th February 2025

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Pushchair, clothing, skates, table lamps, vacuum cleaner, converted oil lamp, bicycle, clocks... it was a fairly typical day at Repair Café today - apart from the incessant rain! Unfortunately we couldn't repair the two pairs of headphones .  One had a break somewhere along its cable which wasn't replaceable.  The other had a burned out loudspeaker on one side.  A video player was presented as having a stuck disc drawer. It turned out that the electronics were no longer working - perhaps because it had been powered by the wrong supply with too high a voltage. As usual we have a few photos: