Cuban how can i fix it

Picture taken on May 7, HAVANA, June 10 Reuters - Cuban model train enthusiast Miguel Jorda enters another world when he lowers his American Flyer railroad layout down from the ceiling of his bedroom with a pulley mechanism, transforming his Havana home into the stage for a miniature s U.

The year-old's American Flyer steam locomotives, which he inherited from his grandfather, date from before Cuba's leftist revolution - which saw U. Back then, before Washington imposed strict sanctions on Cuba, many of the real trains on the Caribbean's largest island were also from the United States, in contrast with the Chinese trains it received recently as part of an ongoing railroads revamp. Model vehicles are nearly exclusively a niche adult hobby in Communist-run Cuba, where they have not been stocked in shops for years, and where enthusiasts either have to get resourceful to keep old toys working or handcraft their own new ones.

But nothing can be done with the embargo in force. In a post embargo Cuba, though, there is the opportunity to distribute basic parts, commodities that can fit or adapt to any car, such as wheel rims, fasteners, lubricants or basic repair tools. He already provides customers with parts for Chevys from to , and some buy distributor caps, rotors, outside mirrors and brake shoes and ship them to relatives in Cuba.

His store is not in any courtyard. The tools he has could be in any American body shop. He also has a pneumatic sanding machine that uses an air compressor, instead of a manual one, and a tool with a suction pad he uses to repair dents without having to take a door apart. All that allows him to work faster.

Those materials are difficult and expensive to obtain, he said. You must be logged in to post a comment. A washing machine motor is used to power a key copier. Photo by Ernesto Oroza. With the warm weather in Cuba, people could do without washing machine dryers. They were used to chop vegetables and shred coconut. With rations so scarce, much of the average Cuban day is spent hunting for the basics, said Rodriguez, who has returned several times since he left to visit family in Cuba.

Where do you get milk? Do you know anyone who has this? Everything has to be hustled by connection, by someone you know or farmers.

Cars, buses and other transportation vehicles are also scarce, and many Cubans illegally convert bicycles into makeshift motorcycles called rikimbilis by attaching small motors.

Large boxes welded to trucks become buses and the bottoms of old cars are sealed shut and refashioned as boats, used by defectors. The rikimbili, prohibited, but widely used in Cuba, is made of a bicycle with a motor attached. Support Provided By: Learn more. Thursday, Nov The Latest. World Agents for Change. Health Long-Term Care.

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