Makers, Breakers and Fixers

Makers, Breakers & FixersMeet the blokes who know how engines work, what to do with discarded bicycle parts, how to fix everything from bulldozers to sewing machines to prize–winning hotrods.

Makers, Breakers & Fixers explores the link between creativity and resourcefulness, a powerful Australian tradition forged out of isolation, drought, fire, war and the Depression.

From farm to factory to artist’s studio, the shed has come to be treasured as a palace of everyday creativity. It’s the place where problems are solved and communities built. More than ever, the answer’s in our own backyard.


    • "The elementary machines that form the basis of most complex technology: the lever, the inclined plane and wedge, the pulley, the wheel ... together these form the basis of mechanical advantage"

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