Second-Hand Shop: Fix & Sell

For forty years your grandfather, Rıza Usta, fixed radios and record players in a little shop in Istanbul's Tahtakale market. Now the shop is yours. There's just one catch: you owe Mr. Hüsnü, the landlord, ₺6,000 in back rent. Pay an instalment every week for four weeks, or the shutters come down for good. BUY: SPOT THE HONEST ONES Five visitors walk in every day. Sellers bring their goods; some are honest, some mumble that "it worked yesterday". Run a power test, find the fault, take a closer look: a missing screw, a burnt smell or a freshly painted back panel might be telling you something. Some sellers won't let you test at all. It's your call. Try knocking 10% or 20% off, but push too hard and the seller walks out. REPAIR: BY HAND Five item families, nine faults, each with its own little repair game: plug in a cable, swap fuses and valves, thread a drive belt, clean a tape head or a…