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| bio | website | carousel-design.com |
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| location | Oregon | |
| age | 61 | |
| visits | member for | 8 months |
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| stats | profile views | 106 |
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Does it mean a broken wire if a doorbell transformer works, but there is little-to-no voltage at the switch? 0 VAC across the front switch could also be a problem with the switch being broken and causing a continuous short between its terminals. |
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May 20 |
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What should I look for when diagnosing electrical circuit gremlins where load is much less than capacity? @HenryJackson - The best advice I can give you is twofold. Firstoff this is an endevor that requires some mechanical and electrical type skills. Specialized but readily avaiable tools are required. The second part is that there are numerous web sites that show videos and photos of how to go about replacing LCD monitor power supply capacitors. You will learn a lot more spending some time looking there than I can give you in a couple of sentences here. |
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May 17 |
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How can I make a sturdy frame out of square, steel tubing? @mike - I totally agree with you. A 1" square tubing frame the size of a door will still twist some. Welding is however the only really practical way to get the frame as sturdy as it could be. To get a frame that would be more suited meeting the needs of oscilatingcretin it is going to require something more like 1.5" or even 2" square tubing that was welded up. Welding is really the only way to transfer the full lever force of one axis into a torsion force in the adjacent frame edge. Any other type of corner is going to introduce some flexure at the corners - the shown dowel pegs for example. |
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May 16 |
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Can I remove a wall stud to install a pet door? +1 Aewsome answer. |
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May 16 |
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How can I repair my Bosch dishwasher that won't drain? Hard to tell from your picture. Is there a float switch in this unit that is sticking in the down position? |
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May 15 |
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How can I reduce the bounciness of a floor? This question is basically a complete redo of this other one: diy.stackexchange.com/questions/26923/… |
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May 14 |
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How do I take apart a wooden pallet without cracking the wood? Junk is sometimes another's riches. There are folks that have built whole small buildings entirely from pallets!! |
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May 13 |
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Can't get into a wall without gouging it out Epic Posting Fail too. |
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May 12 |
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Can't get into a wall without gouging it out @MT_Head - A picture "can" be worth a thousand words. In the case of the picture posted by msh210 the picture is basically worthless. |
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May 12 |
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How do I prevent doors on a media cabinet from sagging? The type of hinge shown here will never stand up to a heavily loaded door assembly. Those things go to the junk pile just from minor abuse of a cabinet door that weighs a couple of pounds. |
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May 7 |
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How can I repeatedly cut the same pattern using a router? +1 for this answer. I make jigs like this for my router all the time. |
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May 6 |
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How can I trim around an electrical outlet? I agree that this mitered approach looks great even though it is clearly a batch of work. |
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May 6 |
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How can I trim around an electrical outlet? What is the light brown color that appears on the molding around the outlet box? |
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May 5 |
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What is involved in moving the gas line in my basement up a few inches? Well - Plumbers and Gas Fitters work on a quite high equivalent hourly rate. The quote you got does not seem all that out of line if you consider that the person could spend five hours at your site taking down the old pipe, adapting the pipe to the new installation and then pressure testing the resultant install. Pressure testing itself is labor and time consuming because all gas using devices on the line need to be disconnected and capped for the pressure test. |
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May 5 |
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Do I add calcite or magnesium first to my new acid neutralizer? Why not simply make a telephone call back to the water store. Seems as you already know the name of the guy to talk to!! |
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May 4 |
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Can I run a single 12 guage wire outside of 12-2 to provide power to a fan? @gregmac - He says the existing wiring is 12 AWG. Depending upon the nature of the upstream wiring back to the panel and the rating of the protection circuit breaker it may not be the safe thing to do patching in some 14 AWG wire into the down stream circuit. |
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Apr 30 |
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Why is my Central Heating taking so long to heat up? Then maybe there is a flow rate blockage in the line going from the boiler to the heater units. |
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Apr 30 |
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How can I prevent an above-ground pool underlayment from failing due to erosion at one location? Yeah. And so often the cheap magic bullet. |
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Apr 30 |
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How can I prevent an above-ground pool underlayment from failing due to erosion at one location? +1 Excellent answer. |
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Apr 28 |
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Why is my Central Heating taking so long to heat up? I have to ask a serious question. Is it possible that before the "inspection" the boiler was operating to way hotter temperatures than it should have? And then somehow during the inspection that situation got corrected? |
