Resources and Links

We have curated a list below of useful resources outside the cafe for those wishing for further information on recycling or specific repairs.

Other Repair Cafes

In the South East:: Download our list of Repair Cafes in the South East of England, when they meet and how to contact them   

Across the world: Find Repair Cafes across the worlds using the map on Repair Cafe International’s site. 

Repair Guides / Tutorials

iFixit: An amazing online resource guiding you through repair of hundreds of different item, especially electrical. 

Repair Café International: A repository of 68,000+ repair guides.

YouTube: This has an amazing variety of tutorials to repair items, please try here for ideas and videos others have made. 

Repair Directory

We Are Repair: An online directory connecting people with local repairers

Recycling

Recycle your electrical items: Find your local options.

Product manuals

Manuall.co.uk: See the instruction manual for thousand of items here.

Repair Tips and Tricks

Repair Café International: Tips and tricks when repairing a wide range of items.

Donate old tools

Tools with a Mission (TWAM): Donate your old tools here.

Get help with getting online

Let’s Get Digital: Get help from a local council backed Digital Team to get online, do your shopping / access your bank etc. See all workshops here.   

Local Repairers

Blacksmith

Peter Heim @ Penshurst Forge
Able to help with: Welding, metal work
Location : Penshurst
Website: https://penshurstforge.co.uk/
Phone: 07932 106962
Social media: https://www.facebook.com/PenshurstForgeBlacksmith

Clock Repairs

John Mathieson @ Clock Care Ltd
Able to help with: Clock servicing and repairs
Location: Tonbridge
Website: http://www.clockcare.co.uk/
Email: john:@clockcare.co.uk
Phone: 01732 359006
More info: One of only around 300 national qualified (accredited clock repairers in the UK). An accredited repairer with the British Horological Institute (BHI).

Sheds / Wooden Structures / Bridges

John Coupe @ Secrets of Shed Building
Able to help with: Design and build of bespoke sheds and wooden structures
Website: https://www.secrets-of-shed-building.com/
More info: John has an engineering background and can safely design and build your shed or wooden structure.

3D Printing and CAD modelling

Rhys Thomas
Able to help with: Design and 3D printing of plastic components
Website: https://fusion-creations.com
Email: rhysthomas2595@gmail.com
Phone: 07414 278881
More info: Rhys works in tech, and runs his own 3D printing business (fusion-creations.com). If you need help designing something custom or reproducing something you can’t buy anymore, just drop him an email and he’ll see what he can do.