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Crimping and arthritis
One of the hardest things to do these days is to use my spade lug crimper. I sometimes can put the crimpers on a hard surface and lean down on them with my body weight. But most times I make bad...
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10 years ago
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My Wife Watches Too Much Mike Holmes
I was installing a new fan/heater in my bathroom this weekend. This unit is much bigger in all three dimensions than my old fan but I was hoping that I could just enlarge the hole by widening it and...
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10 years ago
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Delta 757 Makes Emergency Landing After Wing Panel Tears Off Midflight
More wing without the top panel on top? Come on give me clue.
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10 years ago
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Alternate ways of getting jobs done
On the other thread, I mentioned stuffing plastic bags into a sewer drain line. One time I saw an unfinished front door frame at a house, the tenant had been stuffing plastic bags to keep the cold...
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10 years ago
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Attack on cherry tree
I hope you'll bear with me, confirm or contradict my assumptions, and answer any questions you have answers for. I planted a cherry tree almost a year ago, and actualy got about 20 cherries from it...
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10 years ago
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slant on basement floor
My new next door neighbor, after my old one married a very competent guy (who is by himself redoing their bathroom from the walls up) , noticed that the basement sink, which overflows when the stream...
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10 years ago
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Septic tank question.
I had a toilet running for about 5 hours and ended up with septic overload symptoms. (gurgling, high water level in cleanout etc) It went away pretty quickly after I addressed the toilet problem. Is...
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10 years ago
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Asbestos delays work....
They should just close down the land within a hundred miles of it and fence it off. If you just touch the asbestos rock you will eventually die.
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10 years ago
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closet doors [bi-fold]
Want to install bi-fold doors (4 panels toyal) on a closet 4 feet wide but only 59 inches high. Standard doors are all 80 inches. While I've taken off a few inches off the width in the past, I've...
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10 years ago
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Convert lawnmower into lawn / pavement vacuum (?)
Would this work: Take a lawnmower, mount a plate (steel, plywood, etc) under the entire deck, effectively creating a sealed cavity inside which turns the mower blade. Seal around the edge where the...
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10 years ago
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OT? strut in desk chair or kitchen chair
OT? A lot of desk chairs and kitchen chairs have a center strut, that compresses when one sits down. What is the point of it? Is it supposed to spring back, so everyone sits at the same height wrt his...
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10 years ago
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Follow-up on traffic lights. Why the green is on top in one town.
This morning at 6ET listen live Some town in the US with a lot of Irish immigrants got its first traffic light ..... ..... and the red was on top and the green on the bottom, and they didn't like that...
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10 years ago
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OT- Pills
If someone has pills, which are 250mg, and take two. Is it the same as taking one 500mg pill?
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10 years ago
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Derating Switches And Conductors In A 3-Gang Switch Box
I am replacing a fan-only unit with a fan-heater unit in my bathroom. The switch for the existing fan is in a 1-gang box on a 15A, 14g circuit. Next to the fan switch, in a separate 1-gang box is a...
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10 years ago
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House has 2 main panels?
Older house with an addition circa 1965. Drop comes in, through 1 meter. F rom the meter one set of wires goes to the old panel which is located in a closet, another set of wires (for the newer...
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10 years ago
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