Repair

The repair library lists the outside resources the practice leans on. It is curated, not exhaustive. An entry earns its place by being useful to someone who is fixing something. Listing a resource here means we vouch that it still worked as of the last-edited date above. When a link breaks, we annotate it. We do not delete it.

This is a living document. The section headings below follow the information architecture §5 list for /library/repair. The “Practitioner walkthroughs” section is empty on purpose. Nothing has yet earned the attribution.

Manuals and schematics

• iFixit — the largest open host of repair manuals; step-by-step teardowns for phones, laptops, appliances, and vehicles. Search by device.
• Manufacturer schematics — service documentation varies widely by vendor. Where it is openly published, you will usually find it linked from the device’s iFixit entry or the manufacturer’s own support site. The closed schematics, and the campaigns to pry them open, are tracked on the right-to-repair coalition pages (see /library/links).

Community repair spaces

• Repair Café International — a directory of community repair events across roughly forty countries. Search by city.
• The Restart Project — a 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 it before debugging anything that crosses a network boundary.

Practitioner walkthroughs

[EMPTY] — reserved for original repair write-ups from the keeper community. An entry here must name the practitioner, the device, the date, and the outcome.

How the list grows

Additions come by amendment, the same way the rest of the doctrine is amended. A new entry should say what it adds that the existing list lacks; the same resource under a different name is not an addition. Entries are not removed when they break. They are annotated as broken, with the date the link was last checked.

Two companion lists sit alongside this one: /library/reading for books, essays, and films, and /library/links for the broader commons we depend on.