The Art Of Fixing/Repairing Things At Home

The 14" TV kept in my mom's room was giving trouble. The audio would simply not work for sometime and after 15 minutes begin to blare out loudly.

My husband is a very resourceful person. He tinkers with all the electrical and electronic items at home. So he took the TV apart and found some circuit responding only to a bit of heat for the audio to function. The audio works only when the TV is kept 'on' for sometime. But he could not repair it as the circuits are all too tiny and one mistake and the whole set will be gone. Also he does not have all the proper tools for repair except for a soldering unit.

So he hit upon another great idea. There are quite a few tape recorders lying around house for a long time in unused state. He got one out and just plugged to inter-connect the TV with the tape recorder. My mom was so happy to see the TV and hear the sound booming out with greater clarity than ever before. He made the TV work with a simple idea. He is undoubtedly very creative.

We have in the past called the repair fellows who come and yet these problems have persisted despite constant repairs. I and mom have learnt to wait patiently until my husband is ready to solve such problems and when he does, it works! Same with the kitchen gadgets and the computers at home.

He is great at repairing and making things work again when all hopes are but gone. We always feel impatient when everyday gadgets don't work. We are in a hurry. We either call a service provider to rectify and do not know whether it will work well even after such repairs cost us a small fortune. Or we are tempted and ready to exchange this one for a new set which is not possible each time one thing conks off.

I admire this quality in him. He uses simple ideas to solve such problems. I learn a lot from him each and every day. More than anything it is his patience that helps him to think and solve problems in a calm manner. Yet his 'patience' can be very testy at times for us who want a gadget to work 'immediately after it conks off' but we have learnt to allow him to find the time or have the inclination to repair. We respect and value his time and inclination to undertake these thankless jobs day in and day out. The service is free and the gadgets get working again without the help of an outsider!!

I consider myself really lucky that he's around house and does these things for us without grumbling. I rarely call an outsider to get things fixed in case of gadget breakdowns and that includes the various computer problems and hitches as well. He just makes the softwares and hardware work smoothly. It is thanks to him that this pc from which I am blogging got working after a bad crash last week. It is another matter that we have 2 computers working at home and that helps keep in touch with the outside world without a break unless both decide to crash around the same time :)

Cheers!
Mahalakshmi