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circuit breakers
Does any brand 2 pole 15 amp circuit breaker fit a Square D or Cutler Hammer circuit breaker panel box (each about 6 years old)?
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Parging repair
Time to patch the parging again, and the places where the insulation shows through seem bigger than ever before, some 10 inches by 2 or more. I have plenty of PolyCement so can make it to be as sticky...
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Things that go "tick" in the night
I live in the CO Rockies at 8K ft, a rather rural snowbird park, in a modular/park model home, essentially a perm mobile home, if you will. I have alum flashing around the underside. At night I wake...
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27 cents a mile
Bought some gasoline. Divide the numbers. Turns out to be about 27 cents a mile, to make my 18 MPG truck move. Ouch!!!!! Won't be doing much home repairing, if I have to go for parts. Christopher A....
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Deck floor in basement?
I'm reasonably handy, and want to start finishing off my basement. One part of the basement is really off level due to a bad pour of concrete (not my fault). I'm thinking the best way to solve the...
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Giant plastic water pipe maker accused of fraud
(CBS News) Few things are as crucial to everyday life as clean water, carried in PVC plastic pipe. Much of it is made by JM Eagle, the biggest pipe manufacturer of plastic PVC pipe on the planet.
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Security Light
My friend has a 100 watt mercury vapor security light on her garage that for the most part won't turn off. she's replaced the bulb, it needed it anyway, but the guy doing her handyman stuff says the...
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extra 3/8 shut off valve for sink faucet?
The ball valves seem to be the better choice these days.
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Pets
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OT: The "Independent Voter"
In my view the "independent" voter is the most dependent of all. He only gets to pick between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, without any say in who the candidates might be. He has no input in the...
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Birds out of satelite dish nose cone
How to keep sparrrows and other birds from nesting in the nose cone of a satelite TV antenna? I tried green nylon screen mesh and a bunch of tape. The pecked away the tape, and got back in. Shooting...
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Sawdust containment
I occasionally cut plastic extrusions into short lengths on a chop saw. Since this makes a fairly big mess of plastic sawdust scattered over a large area, I've done this just outside a rollup door,...
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camera copy stand
I want to make a camera platform(out of wood) so that its height can be adjusted on a 1" thick dowel-sort of home made camera copy stand.I used oak but it too hard to hold onto the dowel without...
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Cutting trim work
Going to try to explain the cuts. Looked on Google, obviously I'm not using the correct search terms. Here's what I have. A couple of cuts each being 30 degrees. I have a sliding compound miter box....
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Fertilizer
I'm ticked. The neighbors hire out their yard work to a bunch from south of the border. Today, was out in the hot tub, relaxing, and seen one of the workers, squatting in their bushes, taking a dump!...
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