All day long people enter a warehouse in Longmont, dragging with them the broken things that they hope to leave with fixed. A dress with a jammed zipper, an air mattress that won’t inflate, a vacuum, a blender, an oscilloscope, a mobile cryogenic freezer that its new owner found (for free!) on Craigslist.

These people and their things have come to the monthly Repair Café, one of about a dozen similar events that happen all over the state, where expert tinkerers volunteer their time to put things back together.

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