It’s not that I iron clothes, but that I need to be able to press seams when I sew. And I have a bad back, so there’s no way I’m going to go and get an ironing board every time I sew a seam. My sewing machine is in the balcony along with some cabinet pieces that belong to my landlord

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removable ironing-board top (on a cabinet)

It sounded like a dream: a health club for nerds, only instead of treadmills and weight sets, members paid $125/month to work with CNC routers, laser cutters, and other high-end gadgets. The first of three TechShops opened in Menlo Park, California in 2006 but two more, one in Beaverton OR and the other in Durham, NC followed

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Is the TechShop model in trouble?