Pop-up Repair Events

My one-time colleague Rod Janssen has posted this in the latest edition of his Energy In Demand blog.

These are worthy approaches to extending the working lives of many artefacts but the big breakthrough will only come when manufacturers cease to build for obsolescence. I hate it when, say, a small plastic cog shatters or is stripped of its teeth and you find that a replacement is no longer available from the originator. The effort of finding a new part from who knows where is what needs to be surmounted and, unfortunately, that's what defeats most people.