6 Signs it’s Time to Replace Your iPhone Battery
Have you acclimated to the sub-par performance of your iPhone and accepted it as part of the drudgery of life? Has restarting your crashed iPhone become routine and ritual? Do you long for the days...
View ArticleHow to Really Build a Budget Bike Repair Toolkit
This is a guest post from bike blogger Bek Maples, creator of SLO Cyclist. Check out more of Bek’s musings on cycling at SloCyclist.com. Over the years, I’ve come across plenty of articles that claim...
View ArticleThe First Step to Becoming a Fixer: Read The Frickin’ Manual
A lot of DIYers have—or develop over time—a holier-than-thou attitude towards owners’ manuals. Tossing them aside becomes an odd bragging right. But your owner’s manual has some choice bits of...
View ArticleRepair Smarter: 5 More Tips for Electronics Repair
This is the third in a series of posts we’re calling “Repair Smarter,” with tips and tricks for how to make your repairs go more smoothly. Sometimes, repairing electronics is hard—especially if this is...
View ArticleThe Great Jugaad Debate
Repair is global: it happens everywhere, every day. And that means there are as many ways to fix a phone as there are fixers in the world. When you’re a fixer, you constantly have to adapt to the...
View ArticleWhat’s Your Fixophobia?
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately—requests I never anticipated. Can you help me fix my iPhone display? (Indeed I can). Will you show me how to repair my laptop’s trackpad? (Sure—which one?)...
View ArticleThe Conscientious Fixer
Last night, I broke down and ordered a brand new pair of climbing shoes. My old ones had edged and smeared until I could feel the fresh air on my toes. While the ventilation was welcome on hot days,...
View ArticleWhat To Do If You’ve Stripped A Screw
Header photo by Cara_VSAngel on Flickr Even the best of us strip screws. Heck, we’re repair gurus; we still strip an odd screw from time to time. And nothing puts the kibosh on a would-be repair faster...
View ArticleThe Skinny on Thermal Paste
We recently set out on a journey to shed some light on basic repair skills with a series of videos on iFixit’s Youtube channel. Our first video centered on stripped screws: how to avoid them and how to...
View ArticleThe Best Truck Is a Boring Truck
Trucks are extremely popular in America. Last year, Ford sold over 1.1 million trucks in the US, compared to less than half a million cars. People want trucks, and they’ll pay whatever it takes to get...
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