Reading Time: 4 minutes How To Cure Garlic How to cure garlic. You’ve grown it, you’ve harvested it, now what do you do? You’re going to need to cure it if you want it to last. Curing garlic bulbs Why do you Cure Garlic? Drying? Does this mean that you wash or rinse off the dirt with a quick… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Chlorine Resistant Algae Treatment Are you looking for a chlorine resistant algae treatment? This spring I was in the same boat. I had started up my pool this spring when something changed. I thought that it would be the usual process. Clean the pool filter. Test the water. Set the pH to the low end… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes BiFold Door Mod (Narrower) I needed a bifold door mod recently. This article will cover why I needed a mod, and how I accomplished it. It does not cover the installation of the doors which is in another article. Why I needed a Door Mod The finished bifold doors project would block part of the… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Defensive Driving Managing An Intersection This article is about defensive driving managing an intersection. You need a defensive driving procedure to not become an intersection crash statistic. There is a lot of distracted driving going on. You have never needed a defensive driving strategy more. Never consider a green light a free pass through the… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes How to Remove Plastic Drywall Anchors This article is about how to remove plastic drywall anchors from drywall so that there is a minimum of damage and prepare the leftover holes for filling. My wife needed to have some anchors removed recently. She placed it on the top of my to-do list. So I needed… Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes DIY Rain Gutter I need a DIY rain gutter and it needs to match my existing gutters. Putting up something less than a full match will only scream out “Look at me I’m different”. Well, it will scream out to me. I’ll need one more thing. It will be important to remove the gutter in… Read More »
Reading Time: 6 minutes How to Select and Use a Torque Wrench How to select and use a torque wrench is a skill you will require if you intend to work on your vehicle, motorcycle, or boat. There are many pieces on these vehicles that will require setting torque values during reassembly. This article will present the various types… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Fixing warped PVC fittings Fixing warped PVC fittings is something you may need to do if you plan on recycling or reusing them. There are a lot of how to reuse PVC fitting articles on the internet. But no one talks about what you need to do if you overheat a fitting and warp it.… Read More »
Reading Time: 5 minutes Replacing an Electrical Outlet Replacing an electrical outlet is a very easy thing to do. Once you know how to safely change out an electrical outlet you will be able to use your expanded knowledge to other electrical procedures because you know how to change out an electrical receptacle. Eight Tamper Resistant GFCI outlets … Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Installing Bearings Without Damage Installing bearings without damage is very easy to do. But as I was watching a Youtube video I found myself cringing as another “expert” beat on the outer race of a brand new bearing as he installed it on a shaft. I kept thinking that he was shortening the life of… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Is My Diamond Blade Dull Is My Diamond Blade Dull? I bought a used wet saw so that was one of my first questions. So how do you tell if a diamond blade is dull? I always believed that since the blade uses diamonds for cutting that the diamonds had worn away enough that the… Read More »
Reading Time: 4 minutes Weld Plastic Using Household Plastics Weld plastic using household plastics begins with determining what kind of plastic you will be welding. But I’m getting ahead of myself. First thing you need to know about welding is that welding requires additional material to combine two pieces together. In the normal welding of steel, you have a… Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes DIY Plastic Welding I needed tips on DIY plastic welding. Welding plastic was in my future. I needed a wet saw for a future project and the saw that came up had a crack in the water pan. The seller was very straight forward and listed it as a flaw in the advertisement so I… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Amazon Affiliates and ads.txt File Clarification Amazon Affiliates and ads.txt File Clarification is finally here. As a WordPress website owner, I have been an Amazon affiliate from the very start of this website. I try to keep up on every aspect that could impact our relationship. So it was earlier this year(2019) that I started… Read More »
Reading Time: 7 minutes Three DIY air conditioner maintenance tips Three DIY air conditioner maintenance tips for better cooling. These are three DIY things that I consider easy to do items. These can be accomplished with very little skills and a little caution. I was looking ahead at my cooling for the summer. My wallet was looking at saving an ac… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Screens and Cleaning Out the Gutters Cleaning out the gutters went to the top of my list the other day. It was raining outside, heavy type rain and I noticed thru the window that water was running over the top of the gutter. I thought wow that must be a lot of water coming off… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes RFID Chips And Your Security If your reading this article you are aware that there is this thing called RFID chips. Have you seen commercials claiming to block these chips? The ads are telling you that thieves are waiting for you to walk by them, so they can steal your identity. You are probably asking… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Why Choose Steel Rain Gutter So why choose steel rain gutter. Choosing a rain gutter was a decision I needed to make recently. My old gutter had deteriorated to the point that it had more holes per running foot that I could justify keeping it working. I have time on my hands and less… Read More »
Reading Time: 2 minutes A DIY Simple Honing Tool A DIY simple honing tool is something you may need from time to time. In my case, this time, I needed to enlarge a weed eater replacement part. This article will show you how to make this simple tool with materials that you may already have on hand. DIY simple… Read More »
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tools Six or Twelve Points Tools six or twelve points that is the question today. Are you thinking about purchasing a socket set or a wrench set? Do you know that they come with different number of sides? Six or twelve-sided(called points). Sockets and combination/box wrenches are also available in metric and standard(SAE or inches) sizes.… Read More »