Repair
The repair library is a list of external resources the practice draws on. It is curated, not exhaustive — entries earn their place by being useful to someone who is fixing something. Adding here means we vouch that the resource still works as of the last edit above. Broken links are annotated, not deleted.
This is a living document. Section headings below mirror the
information architecture
§5 list for /library/repair. The “Practitioner walkthroughs” section is empty
by design — nothing yet earns the attribution.
Manuals and schematics
- iFixit — the largest open repair-manual host; step-by-step teardowns for phones, laptops, appliances, vehicles. Search by device.
- Manufacturer schematics — service documentation varies by vendor. Where openly published, link from the device’s iFixit entry or the manufacturer’s own support site. Closed schematics, and the campaigns to open them, are tracked on right-to-repair coalition pages (see /library/links).
Community repair spaces
- Repair Café International — directory of community repair events across roughly forty countries. Search by city.
- The Restart Project — UK-based community-repair network with event calendars, fixer training, and a podcast.
Channels
- Louis Rossmann — board-level electronics repair and right-to-repair advocacy. Long-form, technical, uncompromising.
The engineering record (RFCs that matter)
- RFC 1925 — The Twelve Networking Truths — read before debugging anything that crosses a network boundary.
Practitioner walkthroughs
[EMPTY] — reserved for original repair write-ups by the keeper community. An
entry here must name the practitioner, the device, the date, and the outcome.
How the list grows
Additions are proposed by amendment, the same way other doctrine is amended. A new entry should explain what it contributes that the existing list does not — duplicate links to the same resource under different names are not additions. Entries are not removed when they break; they are annotated as broken with the date the link was last checked.
Companion lists — /library/reading (books, essays, films) and /library/links (the broader commons we depend on) — sit alongside this one.