About FixForge

What FixForge is

FixForge is an independent publisher of repair and restoration guides covering three categories: recreational vehicles, vintage equipment, and marine systems. The site exists because the gap between "manufacturer documentation" and "what you actually need to know to fix the thing" is huge in these categories, and nobody is filling it properly.

Most repair content online falls into predictable buckets. Manufacturer service manuals are accurate but assume you have a dealer's shop, dealer's tools, and a parts account. YouTube videos are visually instructive but bad for skimming, hard to search inside, and rarely include current part costs. Forum threads contain real expertise mixed with bad advice and no curation. AI-generated content scales fast but gets specifics wrong in ways that can damage equipment or hurt someone. We aim for a fifth bucket — practical, written, sourced, current.

What FixForge is not

We don't sell parts. We don't broker repair services. We don't generate leads for contractors. We don't accept payment for favorable coverage of specific products. We don't claim expertise we don't have — when a guide requires specialist knowledge we don't have in-house, we cite the source directly (ABYC for marine work, NEC for residential electrical, manufacturer service bulletins for model-specific procedures) rather than paraphrasing.

If you're looking for a contractor, a marketplace, or a directory, FixForge isn't the right place. We're closer to a service manual you didn't get with the equipment, written by people who use the equipment.

Who runs it

FixForge is built and operated by Atlas Edge Group, a digital services company that publishes informational sites in underserved practical-knowledge categories. The team includes people who actively use RVs, restore vintage equipment, and sail. Where a guide requires expertise outside that overlap, we either source the knowledge directly or mark the guide as "untested by us" with the source cited inline.

The editorial standard is consistent: every claim a guide makes about cost, procedure, part numbers, or compatibility has to be traceable to a current source. We update guides when prices shift more than 15% or when manufacturer-specified procedures change. The "Last Updated" date in each guide's header reflects the most recent review.

How FixForge makes money

Two ways. First, display ads through Google AdSense, which appear in the margins and between sections of guides. AdSense doesn't influence editorial choices — we don't know which advertisers buy which placements, and our content selection isn't driven by what advertisers want covered.

Second, affiliate links. When a guide recommends a specific product — like a specific tank-cleaning chemical or a specific replacement sensor — the link to buy it often pays FixForge a small percentage if you purchase through it. We only link to products we'd actually use ourselves, and we disclose the affiliate relationship clearly. If a product is the right answer and we can't link to it through an affiliate program, we still name it.

Both revenue streams are passive. Neither requires us to collect your contact information, sell your data, or maintain any ongoing relationship with you. You read the guide, you fix the thing, we get paid by the ads. That's the entire transaction.

Why these three categories?

RVs, vintage equipment, and marine systems share three structural properties: their owners are expected to do most of their own maintenance, the official documentation rarely matches actual failure modes, and the long-tail of model-specific problems creates more searchable questions than any single resource can cover. Generic "how to fix [thing]" content gets summarized by AI search models pretty cleanly now. Model-specific failure-mode content doesn't, because the answer changes per model, year, and configuration.

The categories also share a healthy skeptical community. RV forums, marine forums, and vintage equipment groups don't tolerate bad information for long. If we publish something wrong, someone tells us. That accountability loop is part of why these categories are worth covering — the quality floor is enforced.

Contact

Found something wrong in a guide? Want to suggest a topic? Have a question we should answer? Get in touch. We read every message and respond to substantive ones within a few business days.