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Article posted: 1/19/2013 5:00 AM

Fix-It Clinic defies the throwaway economy

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People gathered around workbenches at the Mill, an industrial-arts facility in Minneapolis, repairing items at a Fix-It Clinic.

SHNS photo by Bruce Bisping/Minneapolis Star Tribu

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Jimmy Lynch, left, and Paul Dingels work on Molly Ross' lamp at a Fix-It Clinic.

SHNS photo by Bruce Bisping/Minneapolis Star Tribu

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The table lamp, with its fizzling light bulbs, was built like a tank and about as attractive. So Molly Ross of Edina, Minn., set it before a group of people who know how to fix fizzling lamps and recalcitrant toasters and unpredictable boom boxes.