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Lessons learned installing a torsion spring in a typical residential garage
For most of you on a.h.r, these lessons will be old hat; but for those of you (like I was) who have never relocated a torsion spring, these lessons may come in handy in the future. WHAT DO MOST GARAGE...
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Home renovation gone wrong.
Let's see. Was that fix this and tear down the other, or vice versa?
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Auto "Black Boxes" to be required shortly
the day is coming where intelligent vehicles check themselves for speeding and call in the report to the police that send you a ticket. you were on X road the speed limit is 55, you were doing 75. pay...
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What's wrong with my paint?
Bought different glosses of BM paint, eggshell, pearl, & semi-gloss. Have made some touch ups during my punch list. Every time I open the semi-gloss paint, it sounds like I'm opening a pop can. Paint...
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Gaze upon this mountain of debt and despair all who toil under it.
liberty holds down her torch and is dumbstruck by the sight. NEW 2017 VIDEO: https://youtu.be/XqUwr-Nkq9g http://Demonocracy.info - Economic Infographics The faith and value of the US Dollar rests on...
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Help wanted
For those people who are out of work and vehemently anti-union, feeling that the government is too powerful in regulating businesses and that the free job market is the key to economic prosperity....
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OT twist on footprints poem
I think this is funny. TinyURL was created! The following URL: 41794129219031&set=a.179344478797332.472 94.179341505464296&type=1&ref=nf has a length of 112 characters and resulted in the following...
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Durable paint for the inside of a microwave oven
We have a well functioning microwave oven with a rusty circular track on the bottom of the oven where the plastic wheels supporting the rotating glass dish have rolled for several years. The track...
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OT -- lack of planning on your part ....
Last night, I got a call from church. Some folks having a presentation, and need the spot light. One of the fellows find out that his master key doesn't work the closet where the lights are. Called to...
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Electrical Cord Removal
My daughter's overpriced flat iron uses this exact cord with built-in GFCI/ALCI: cord rotates at the iron, as you can see from the non-plug end. How does the connector disconnect from the iron? I...
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$80 Hammer-- if only it was 1975. . .
If I was 40 years younger and didn't drive nails with air [or use screws when I can] - I'd really be drooling over this. were listed in a made in the USA list someplace. 19 oz, straight claw, waffle...
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Gas Cooktop: Pipe Sealant
I'm going to replace a couple of stuck valves on a gas cooktop. Looks like they just screw into the manifold once the ignitor switches & wiring harness is removed and the manifold is lifted enough to...
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Toilet Flapper valve
Friend has a perfectly good toilet and all the float and flapper assemblies look good but the flapper often refuses to fall into the socket or whatever it's called after the bowl empties. I can't find...
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What do you put on a brown wood door facing the sun & rain?
I've a brown wooden door which is peeling yellowish flakes all over and the bottom floorboard (cherry?) is worn to the bare wood getting wet in the rain. What do you put on this kind of door to...
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OT, I Got Some Horrible News Today
An old friend and customer of me and my brother is dead along with his elderly mother in a murder suicide. Darn it! It's not the first time an event like that has happened and I always wish I'd known...
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