Introduction
Repair Cafe Gosport began in a well-equipped maker space. However, we now run our events in community venues. One disadvantage of this approach is that most volunteers need to bring their tools, which creates a barrier for some individuals to participate in volunteering unable to bring their own for whatever reason. All our volunteers are willing to lend out their tools, but this runs the risk of creating a hierarchy among our volunteers, which we want to eliminate.
Our Goal was to create a set of toolkits with a target budget of £67 that our volunteers could use. That budget was chosen to allow people or organisations to sponsor a toolkit for a moderate donation.
Dick Field kindly donated the money for the first 3 of these kits and we tested them at our event in May 2024.
Contents
Main Tool Bag
The starting point was a VonHaus 92 piece kit with bag
This consists:
This bag gave plenty of
- Hammer
- 2✕ Spring clip
- Driver bits in two rubber blocks
- Sockets in a plastic holder
- Driver handle
- Long nose pliers
- Wire cutters
- Square-end pliers
- Adjustable Spanner
- Tape Measure
- 4✕ Precision screwdrivers
- 2✕ Spring clip
- Metric Allen Keys
- Imperial Allen Keys
- Spirit Level
This bag has plenty of space for the tools provided with the kit, plus the other items we added and future items too.
Long Reach Hex Bits
For many items longer reach bits are needed so we choose this set:
We got these from Temu: 32-Piece S2 Steel Magnetic Extension Bit
Multimeter
We choose an AN101 popular with Repair Cafes
Precision Tool Set
We added a set of precision screw drives
We got these from Temu: 115-in-1 Precision Screwdriver Set
Pry Tool Set
We include a pry tool set useful for opening cases of larger items
We got these from Temu: 115-in-1 Precision Screwdriver Set
Summary
The total for the kit was as follows:
| Item | Cost |
| Toolkit | £29.99 |
| Long Hex Set | £12.05 |
| Pry Tool Set | £9.17 |
| Precision Screw Drivers | £7.21 |
| Multimeter | £9.91 |
| Total | £68.33 |