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What Is Your Star Rating Criteria For Making A Purchase?
How do you use the 5 Star rating system to make a decision? Do you have number, such as 80% 4? or above with 70% being 5? ?, or something like that? Obviously, we have to toss the irrelevant reviews...
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Ground Connection For Furnace And Generator
Oh boy, another ground question. These discussions are always lively. :-) I lost power from the wind storm that hit the Great Lakes area on Wednesday. Last night I borrowed a generator from a friend...
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Storm Door makes latching interior door difficult
I never had storm doors on my house. I just weatherstripped the regular door well. But even with weatherstripping, I always got a little water coming in under the door from rain storms. A recent...
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sawdust
... Here's a link to a guy who's written out what I summarized before along with some suggestions for how to try to make use of it if you really want to...he even mentions the walnut issue...
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new screen door(s)?
Hi All, Got a price from a mobile screen door company to replace my sliding glass window screen doors. (My screen doors are falling apart, rollers are all broken, etc..). They give a life time...
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turning tomato plants
I never bury them deep. i dig a trench and plant them on their side,.]]
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Pfaucets
I take back what I said a few weeks back about using only Price Pfister faucets. The ones I istalled a number of years back were fantastic. The new stuff, since Black and Decker have their hands in...
 
Why 3-prong plugs
SO OLD. Virtually everything in the last20 years anyway is "universal" or "auto switching" in the small SMPS world. Virtually all my laptop powes supplies and switch mode wall warts are listed as...
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Why do so many people
Why do they think they should be able to buy insurance after they get sick? It is like waiting until you total your car or burn down your house to get insurance.
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Tracking not free at USPS
A few months ago there was a thread that claimed that tracking in the US postal service was free for any package or letter. Not so. It's free with certified mail and some other things but to just send...
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Wiring Home for Cable TV - Upgrading to "ORANGE?" Cable?
My home was wired for cable TV sometimes in the 80's with the black coax. There are a couple of signal boosters in the system as the wiring covers 3 stores. We tried to upgrade our Xfinity/Comcast DVR...
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Cold house
Why does the temperature in my house drop to 68 degrees when the "Heat" setpoint on my programmable thermostat is set to 80 degrees?
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I have a Genie Model 404 screw drive garage door opener. My problem is when it closes, the motor shuts off, but the unit still hums and the light stays on, and it will not respond to the open command, neither remote or wall button. But if I unplug it, and
Genie Model 404 1/3 hp screw drive Garage Door Opener
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OT. Biplane comeback?
From Science Daily: Researchers might be onto something that will replace the Concorde.
 
[SOLVED] How to clean orfice on small propane torch?????
I used to have wires to clean carbide lamps. Greg
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