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Phone repair teacher

Fix your own phone, one safe step at a time

I’m Farai. I fix phones and teach people to fix their own, and I sell printable guides, repair logs and two video courses for beginners.

Farai repairing a phone at his shop bench

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Saturday, November 14 · 7:00 PM

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Latest videos

A new video every Sunday from my bench: tools, screens, batteries and charging ports.

Online course

My course

  • Repairer at a shopfront bench on a dusty street
    Repairer at a shopfront bench on a dusty street

    Video course · 8 lessons

    Fix Your Own Phone

    From a clean bench to a phone that works again: the whole repair, one lesson at a time.

    • 01A clean bench and safe tools10 min
    • 02Find the fault14 min
    • 03Open it safely13 min
    • 04Replace the part18 min
    • 05Replace a battery15 min
    • 06Fix a charging port17 min
    • 07Test before you close11 min
    • 08Close it up9 min

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Downloads arrive by email. Merch is printed to order and shipped by Printful.

Drawers of phone parts and batteries

Hello, I’m Farai

I have repaired phones for ten years, at a bench in Harare, with a small set of tools and a lot of cracked screens. I started by taking apart my brother’s old phone and putting it back together, and I learned the rest one repair at a time. When the lights go out I keep working by headlamp, so I have learned to keep things simple.

Now I teach it. The videos are filmed at my bench, with the tools laid out on a mat, in plain words. What I sell are the things I wished I had when I started: guides with photographs, cards to follow when a phone will not charge, log sheets to print and two video courses, one for the whole repair and one for water damage. I do not sell phones or parts. I teach you to look after your own.

Hands lifting a connector inside an opened phone

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Bench Notes

A short letter every Sunday from the bench: one fault I saw, one tip and one small repair to try this week.

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