[NJARC] Repair Clinic

[john ruccolo]

Folks,

I'll keep this short. Please notice that I was a good
doobie and truncated the previous emails. 

We need to make an important distinction between
members-only clinics and open-to-the-public clinics.
For the public clinics, I absolutely agree -- we need
to fix family heirlooms for people who just want
Grandma's or Grandpa's or Aunt Tillie's old radio
fixed. We generate a great deal of goodwill and good
PR doing it. We'll just have to deal with the
occasional SOB on a case-by-case basis.

However, for members-only clinics, we gotta take the
emphasis off of people leaving at the end of the day
with perfectly working radios. We need some informal
tech-talk sessions, less chaos, more learning, less
fixing -- unless the fixing also involves teaching and
learning. Too many clinics degenerate into a chaotic
re-capping party -- lots of parts being replaced, but
not enough people learning anything. I've been there
--I know.

Later,

Mr. Capacitor

--- sfg at comcast.net wrote:

> Visit our web site - See http://www.njarc.org
> _______________________________________________
> Hi me again,
> The desire to fix one's own radio is something that
> warms my heart, but not everyone is a techie and not
> everyone wants to know how to repair radios, thus
> the clinics.....

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