I am definitely repair enthusiast.

That's how Wayne Seltzer sees himself.

The same kind of magic that people find in poetry, art or music.

Seltzer sees it in a room full of people fixing lamps and lawn mowers.

People who claim to have no knowledge of repairing things help somebody on the other side of

the room because they say, oh, did you try removing that screw?

Why do they know that?

Because humans are amazing.

They have incredibly good diagnostic and intuitive senses and they help each other.

Seltzer runs the UFixit Clinic in Boulder, Colorado.

Every month or two people bring in torn clothing, wobbly furniture and malfunctioning gadgets

and work with volunteers to get them working again.

My wife actually kind of complains that I help other people fix their things in our

house as a backlog of stuff.

Recently though, he was stumped by a repair job at home.

A light started blinking on his dishwasher.

So open up the door and well, there's a half washed load of dishes with a pool of dirty water.

He looks at the manual and it says the blinking light might mean the door isn't firmly closed.

He tries that.

No luck.

He said if it doesn't work, call service.

I said, ah, come on.

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