Having lost both parents at a relatively early age, he supported himself and his sister Janina by fixing and installing radios for the Polish military.

Schafer's background is steeped in broadcast engineering and goes back to his hometown of Hammond, Ind., where he learned to fix radios as a teen at a repair shop.

He found refuge by spending hours fixing old clocks and radios and set up up his own radio repair shop during his senior year in high school.

His boyhood job was fixing radios.

You fix radios, huh?

It will even fix small Walkman-type radios, which have parts so tiny and require labor so intensive that most shops flatly refuse them.

"I want to study electronics so I can fix radios, televisions and computers."

The more officers, the more people you need to fix cars and radios and process applications.

I fix bicycles and lawn mowers and radios and television sets - I fix anything that is brought to me.

He taught himself how to fix radios, pick locks, draw nudes, speak Portuguese, play the bongos and decipher Mayan hieroglyphics.