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The AOJEL Repair Lab
Every broken thing has a right way back.
Field guides from AOJEL — repair science from university labs and industry standards, translated into plain language you can use in your garage tonight.
The Repair Lab
100 guides. Every one graded.
Evidence-graded repair guides — each one carries its evidence grade, its effort level, and its stop rules. What the sources can’t support, we mark; what we can’t verify, we say so.
Browse all 100 guides →The field manual
Six guides. Start with your problem.
Each one answers a single question and ends with what to reach for. The hundred below go deeper — start here if something is broken right now.
01
Which Glue?
Epoxy, super glue, polyurethane, hot glue — five questions sort them out in two minutes.
Read the guide →
02
Weld vs. Bond
The one-question test that tells you whether to reach for the drawer or call a welder.
Read the guide →
03
Why Your Glue Didn’t Hold
Clean, dry, sanded — in that order. The six words behind most bonds that hold.
Read the guide →
04
Repair or Replace?
The honest math of fixing versus letting go.
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05
Stripped Threads, Rebuilt
When a bolt hole gives up — and how to give it a second life.
Read the guide →
06
One Patch or the Whole Surface?
Local repair versus full renewal — where the line sits.
Read the guide →
How these guides are built
01
University research
MIT OpenCourseWare fracture & fatigue, composite mechanics — the physics of how joints fail.
02
Industry standards
FAA AC 43.13-1B & AC 20-107B, AWS D1.1, ASE — what the professions actually require.
03
Shop practice
West System technical manuals — how the pros actually mix, wet out, and clamp.
From AOJEL
The Annals of Repair
Vol. I — From Myth to the Molecule. Five thousand years of mending — from the sky Nüwa patched to the laws that now protect your right to repair. The history of what we refused to let break.
Open the annals →Every repair is a vote.
Log your repair and keep it on record — the Global Repair Index is the living archive of things fixed.
Open the Global Repair Index →EVERY REPAIR IS A VOTE.
Global Repair Index
PREVIEWRepair is the most sustainable thing you can do with a broken object. The Global Repair Index is a public record of repairs logged by people everywhere—no purchase needed, no product required. Log yours, light the map, and cast your vote for a world that fixes things instead of throwing them away.
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Your repair appears as a light on the world map.
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Every logged repair counts toward the index—repair decisions, not products.
Open to everyone — you don't need to own any AOJEL product.
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PREVIEW MAP · LIGHTS ARE EXAMPLES
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