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string trimmers - auto-line-feed
I just bought a new battery powered weed whacker that has the idiotic and wasteful auto-feed feature. After an hour or two of thinking about how to disable / bypass it - a lightbulb came on and I did...
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U.S. Home Values Up 2 Trillion Dollars This Year
<> The average homeowner gained more than $33,000 in equity, which represents the largest increase in at least a decade, according to a new report from CoreLogic, the property data provider.
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OT: What words or phrases annoy you?
Tap instead of click. App instead of program. Fewer instead of less (even though more has no equivalent). Slowed up instead of slowed down (slow is less speed, so must be down). People who write...
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Truck problem. What was wrong, and did it really get better?
I borrowed a pickup to take junk to the dump, and it's been working fine for 2 days. Today, on my second trip to recycling, on the Xway, it lost power, and I was slowing down. I pulled to the shoulder...
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2 years ago
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Built to Rent
A talk show mentioned built to rent housing developments. The houses are on the modest end of the scale. A nearby town might have something like that. There is an area of identical duplexes. They...
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OT: Ring The Door Bell, Dammit
Attention Delivery Drivers: When you deliver a package, ring the damn door bell. Don't just drop it- or toss it- near the front door and run. If you don't, it can sit there for hours- or even...
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This Old House hosted by Richard Karn
There was a brief run of episodes of This Old House that was hosted by Richard Karn from Home Improvement. I remember seeing it! I believe this was not long after Home Improvement was canceled,...
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Overcharging the battery
How come my Sandisk Clip Sport says one cannot ovrcharge the battery, but none of my smartphones have ever said that?
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2 years ago
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Samsung Smart TV no longer defaults to HDMI input.
I have a Samsung Smart TV (UN50NU6950FXZA) which just started acting up. When powering on it no longer defaults to the HDMI input coming from the cable DVR box. The TV now defaults to the Samsung TV...
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2 years ago
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Heating and reusing asphalt
I have to patch a few areas at edge of my asphalt driveway that cracked off. 10+ years ago put similar asphalt chunks in a couple of aluminum trays in an old BBQ to 300F, and then placed and compacted...
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2 years ago
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BRIGGS AND STRATTON Quiet Muffler
I am looking for a replacement muffler for our 5 hp Troybuilt tiller. But I don't want a standard replacement, I want something to make it very quiet or as quit as practical or possible (practicable)....
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2 years ago
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Cactusjack (with no space between words) is a jerk…..get a life!!!
Cactusjack (with no space between words) is a jerk…..get a life!!! I had same issue in 2021 and answers helped. Thumbs up!!!!
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Copper pipe sanity check, please
I need to replace a water shut-off valve below my kitchen sink. I see that valves come made to fit on either 1/2" or 5/8" pipe. When I measure the copper intake pipe with my (not very accurate)...
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OT. 6/6/1944. D Day
A GI ended up with his picture all over France. <> The night before D-Day, as he invasion fleet was crossing the English Channel, President Roosevelt broadcast to the nation the news.
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PVC for water main?
Hello all, I have been searching on the Internet to find out if I can use PVC to replace my resting steel main water line. So far nothing definitive came out. I live in San Jose California, so cold...
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