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ALUMINUM SWIMMING POOL CORROSION REPAIR
Is there an effective way to repair an aluminum swimming pool? There is some corrosion at the bottom half on an above ground pool.
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Locating air mattress leak?
I have an air matress that's worked great for a year, but has now developed a leak. tried twice to locate the leak with soapy water (using Dawn liquid), but couldn't find even a hint of a...
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Furnace replacement [oil condensing?]
As much as I hate to get rid of an old, simple friend, my 25 yr old furnace is due for replacement. There is no natural gas in the future of where I live. Electric is 16-18cents a KWH. I have a...
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Increase BTU output of gas grill
Might be easier and possibly cheaper to buy a turkey fryer. The darned things are like jet engines. That's what I used during the Great Power Outage of '03 (and we had a "boil water" advisory...
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Best adhering, durable black paint for metal
I have a set of metal drawers in the lab that are getting old. Ugly dark, dull green. Looking to paing them black, but I have no idea what will be durable and not flake off. I haven't found 2-part...
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Machine makes 100.000 sandbags per day
They were just showing on the tv news about the Red River floods. They said they got 3 machines from Canada that can each make 100,000 sandbags per day. That's pretty amazing in itself, but they...
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Find studs behind tile
I've searched for info on this before, and always came up empty. Seems the consensus is that most stud finders (like my 'Zircon') fail to detect through tile. Just wondering if anything...
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Fein tools?
I see many paid promotional infomercials on late-night TV touting the MultiMaster power tool by Fein. I'm always highly skeptical of anything advertised so ubiquitously, but that aside, I'd...
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drainpipe clog
A drainpipe that runs underneath the house is clogged with grit from roof shingles. I used a shopvac to suction out about 5-6 feet of the pipe, whereupon the pipe turned under the house. A snake...
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House Painting And Pressure Washing ?
Hello, Have a question regarding painting my house. Concerns really. House is the typical wooden clapboard style. Hasn't been painted for about 7 years or so. I guess the normal thing that they...
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Problem with bathtub taps
I turn on the hot water tap for my bathtub, giving it maybe half a turn, leaving it until the water is hot. I then turn on the cold water tap, and only have to turn it a fraction of an inch or so...
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Spray lubricants
I'm almost afraid to ask this after the WD-40 triology that we just had. OK, I've go to my courage up now - what is your favorite, widely available *spray* lubricant? I have been using a...
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Using self leveling compound in bottom of cabinet
I have a rental property that had a plumbing leak (it's fixed). The base of the cabinet is particle board and has warped so that there's now about a 2" depression in the middle. Replacing the...
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Clothes dryer taking too long to dry clothes.
I have a Sears electric dryer (110.86880100) that takes 2 70 minute cycles to dry a load of clothes. The lint filter is clear; the exhaust opening inside the drum is clear; there is no kink in the...
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Little House on Prarie now illegal
"Rachel Merrill, mother of three, was holding innocuous-seeming contraband in her hand at an Arlington Goodwill store earlier this month: a 1971 edition of "Little House on the Prairie." This copy of...
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