Materials saved from the landfill: small appliances Skills you’ll learn: assessing a repair job, desoldering + soldering, multimeter, safely opening an appliance Learn to triage your small appliance’s wounds yourself! Electrical engineer Joel Schad will take you through a simple repair (and what to do when a repair becomes not-so-simple) on a common household small electrical appliance. You’ll get hands-on learning with small appliance surgery from opening up an appliance, to soldering + dressing its wires, to using a multimeter to read its pulse.