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Electricians ?
Any electricians here. :-) I have a customer who has some window units installed, but they keep blowing the breaker(s). --------------------------- I want to find out which breaker controls the...
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Bradford White Water Heater
I have a gas one and it is giving me fits! Our old one began leaking on New Year's Eve perhaps 3 years ago. I can't remember for sure. Had problems ever since with it. Would not stay lit. I called...
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Precisely how easy is it to ENTIRELY wipe fingerprints off of blank Avery address labels?
I have two packages of Avery address labels that I bought in 1998 and there are a lot of blank labels still left in each of the packages and so I was wondering if it is possible to remove my...
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Sharpen, and then balance lawn mower blade
Today the lawn needed mowing. The mower wasn't doing all that good, so I flipped it up (1965 or so model Jacobsen walk behind). Blade is massively dull. Bring it in to sharpen, and then balance. Cuts...
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New furnace ?
I have a 21 year old 80,000 BTU 80% efficiency gas furnace than I'm looking to replace this year or possibly next. House is 1900 sq ft. The only repair it's needed was an igniter. Present ductwork and...
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Doorbell Continuously rings- (but not a short)
My wired doorbell button broke so I bought a replacement (the actual plastic button cracked and fell out) The doorbell worked fine before the button broke. I purchased a replacement button and removed...
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mixing Refrigerants r134a rf22
Last year, I added some dye (EFProducts Ester 100) for R134A into my home H VAC system (RF22). Afterwards, I found out that one should not mix them. Should I drain my system and clean the tubing? I...
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OT -- Walmart Walkie talkies
I was in a Walmart, last night. Noticing how the staff (at least some of them) have walkie talkies (more correctly called handy talkies). Are these FRS band like are sold to everyone, or are they on a...
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Pavers on Asphalt Driveway
Another subject, while I'm doing my weekly wish list for fix up ideas.... I'm wondering about putting pavers on top of an asphalt driveway. Driveway is 50 years old and slopes evenly with no holes or...
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A/C blower fan controller?
So the compressor runs and then at some point the A/C decides to turn on the blower fan. Mine works fine for awhile, but then it starts turning the fan on and then off again, within a few seconds, as...
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Drill Decision
I've got a HF 18 volt impact driver. Charged it a couple weeks ago, and then yesterday the battery was dead. I am sort of tempted to get a drill to go with it, and just live with having to charge it...
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Curious about central AC problem
Not mine -- a central air unit at work has failed, and the compressor supposedly just hums a lot. That's all the detail I have. No smoke, no tripped breakers. We have a maintenance crew to solve this....
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Why is the bridge rectifier output shorted when the swtich is not On.
The electric lawn mower I bought over the weekend had its handle folded over and something heavy piled on it, and it crushed and cut some of the electric cord going from the on/off switch to the...
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Too good to be true -- Chapter two
So, to follow up. Friday night I get an email from the seller that s/he went to dust it off and found that the handle had been folded over the electric cord, where it enters the housing, and things...
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Replacemment Refrigerator
We have a 20+ year old "built in" Sub Zero (we bought the house with tha refrigerator in place) which we would like to replace. Are there any recommendations, as to a Reliable replacement brand, that...
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