{"id":53378,"date":"2016-11-27T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-11-27T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=53378"},"modified":"2019-02-25T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T00:14:21","slug":"tool-sharing-made-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/11\/27\/tool-sharing-made-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tool sharing made easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zaWa-YhOMJU?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Ever wanted to fix a dripping faucet but didn&#8217;t have the proper wrench? Would an electric sander help to finally refinish that aging dining table or wood floor? Yet, you don&#8217;t want to buy a tool you will only end up using once. The <a href=\"http:\/\/hnltoollibrary.org\/\"><abbr title=\"Honolulu\">HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library<\/a> may be the place for you. It is the first tool library in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and has dozens of tools to help finish that do-it-yourself job. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A tool library works just like a book library but it allows you to borrow tools instead of books,&rdquo; said <strong>Elia Bruno<\/strong>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> student, who started and runs the <abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library with other volunteers. &ldquo;I really hope for people to understand that sharing a lot of the time just makes a lot of sense, and if we can be sharing tools we can also be sharing anything else.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>For a nominal membership fee, the <abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library, located inside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reusehawaii.org\/home.php\">Re-use <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a>, offers access to dozens of hand and powered tools. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53380\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/system-tool-library-260x164.jpg\" alt=\"Elia Bruno greeting tool library patron\" width=\"260\" height=\"164\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-53380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/system-tool-library-260x164.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/system-tool-library-480x300.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/system-tool-library.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elia Bruno started and runs the <abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library with other volunteers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I would say projects are much easier to tackle now with the tool library,&rdquo; said Jack Beuttell as he was borrowing a paint sprayer for a home improvement  project. &ldquo;Before, I wasn&#8217;t sure what tools I needed, I wasn&#8217;t sure if I could afford them.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>Made possible by the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiicommunityfoundation.org\/\"><span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Community Foundation<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/sustainability\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Office of Sustainability<\/a> and Re-use <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the <abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library plans to expand. The plan is for the library to include kitchen appliances, camping and gardening equipment, space for projects using stationary woodshop machinery and  classes for every ability level and budget. The mission is to help people save money and to facilitate more efficient use of resources. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Sustainability is really about innovation and unlocking the creativity in our youth to go forth and help us solve the challenges of climate change that we all face today,&rdquo; said <strong>Matthew Kamakani Lynch<\/strong> of the <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Office of Sustainability. &ldquo;The <abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library is great example of that.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>For information on membership fees, volunteer and donation opportunities and the latest offerings, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/hnltoollibrary.org\/\"><abbr>HNL<\/abbr> Tool Library website<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The HNL Tool Library has dozens of tools to help finish that do-it-yourself job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":53386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[73,947,56],"class_list":["post-53378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-sustainability","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/system-tool-library-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79941,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53378\/revisions\/79941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}