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[Wayne P. Muckleroy]

Do I have internet access in a survivalist's camp? If not, leave me alone. I
rather die than live without internet access.


"Dana" <Dana13857@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dpiIi.11704$A55.11627@pd7urf2no...

War, famine, global warming, climate change, disease and so much more.

How will YOU cope?


Every once in while I let people know of this forum, where real people,
like you and me,
get together and discuss how to deal with these things as best as we can.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/misc_survivalism_moderated/

Check it out.




Dana




G5!MxFem7Fh`Dwl1IO%

 

[N8N]

On Feb 19, 5:37 pm, "hall...@aol.com" <hall...@aol.com> wrote:

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.

Ain't that the truth.

I still err on the side of too much PM because I seem to be one of
those guys who manage to pull off just about every job I actually *do*
without too much hassle, but God forbid that I let any PM slide on
anything, it will bite me in the a$$... There are a few exceptions to
that rule however.

the funniest was, though, my ex-GF had a '69 Plymouth Valiant that I'd
found for her, because her old Monte Carlo was too much of a rusty
roach to pass PA state safety inspection without a new frame. It was
in immaculate shape, and ran and drove well. she took it to a local
garage to get it inspected and the guy failed her for dry-rotted
suspension bushings. So I called up PST, ordered a front end rebuild
kit, and went to town. I figured that it would be pretty easy, and
after all I was a mechanical engineering student so had access to the
school machine shop, what could possibly go wrong? I drove the
control arms down to another shop to have them bead blasted, painted
everything up real nice, went to put the first side back together and
I realize that the strut rod bushings are WAY too thick. Called up
PST, after being on the phone with tech support for quite some while,
figured out that they had the year breaks in their catalog wrong and I
needed the earlier version. Well their bastard people wouldn't trade
me for the ones I needed, wouldn't sell them separately, etc. etc.
etc. Also found out that one tie rod was swapped end for end so I
needed to order a new inner tie rod end as well (basic rebuild kit
only had outer tie rods, and the inspector had flagged outer tie rod
ends for replacement as well.) Car was on jackstands on the street in
front of her house for about 3 weeks while this was all going on (this
was supposed to be about a 3-day project, I had it all planned out...)
finally her annoying neighbor called the city to schedule tree
trimming, I had to throw the car together one evening wrong bushings
and all just to move it so it didn't get towed. By this time I'd
found a guy with a machine shop in his basement to turn down the strut
rod bushings for me to the thickness actually required, but I didn't
have time to R&R the lower control arm on one side.

Somewhere out there there is still a pea soup green '69 Valiant with a
nice polygraphite front end that has one original rubber lower control
arm bushing and one original rubber strut rod bushing... what a
charlie foxtrot.

You would think that I'd learned my lesson but a couple months later
my '67 Dart blew up its transmission on my way to her house, and I
coasted it into the exact same parking place where the Valiant had
been sitting. I borrowed the Valiant, went to the junkyard, got
another transmission, swapped that in at the side of the road in the
snow, and the car moved about 6 feet and never moved again. I sold it
for $50 just to get it the hell out of my sight.

Lesson learned; I don't do any work on cars outside of a garage or
driveway anymore... no job, no matter how simple appearing, is not
going to take about 10x as long as you think it is and if you're in a
hurry you're going to make mistakes.

nate

(you may all laugh at me now)

 

[Only Just]

"Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator" <donna.ohl@sbcglobal.net> wrote in
message news:eBCuj.6698$xq2.6074@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...

On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:27:28 -0800 (PST), hallerb@aol.com wrote:
the plastic valves are fine if they get just ONE use, to drain the
tank at end of use.......

Hi hallerb,
I understand your point. But, from what I read, they used to be brass and
the manufacturers switched to the plastic for cost reasons only.

Also, I read a brass ball valve doesn't clog as easily.

Given our experience this past weekend, where the valve first clogged and
then broke off inside the water heater, it would seem to us that over
time,
the brass will be less likely to break than the plastic.

Of course, one reason ours clogged was likely the fact we never flushed it
so the sediments may have been too much for any valve - and one reason it
broke is that we were manhandling it trying to get the tipped-over water
heater back on the stand ... so you might be right.

I think I now understand how to replace the brass valve. In fact, a more
important issue came up in that our dishwasher suddenly stopped working. I
think it's due to the sediment being sent through the pipes (our shower
heads were totally clogged all of a sudden, with sandy grainy stuff).

I opened a separate thread on alt.home.repair to ask how to clean out a
dishwasher without being able to remove it (it's bricked in it seems).

I feel like "this old house" is attacking me so it's nice to have this
wonderful newsgroup as my friends to help in times of need!

Donna
Any good installation of an appliance like a washing machine, dishwasher etc

should have a filter screen / rubber washer fitted to the hose fitting to
the tap that controls the water to the appliance, with a bit of luck it
should be as easy as to removing the hose from the tap and cleaning that
filter / screen. There could be an additional screen fitted to the water
inlet valve on the appliance as well that might need cleaning so depending
on the difficulty on accessing the fittings, start with the easy one first
and test from there before attempting the more difficult one. If you have
cleaned out all the filters and it still doesn't work you could have had the
unfortunate problem of luck that it also failed at close to the same time
(It happens occasionally unfortunately) so good luck with it all.
Justy.

 

[Mike Tomlinson]

In article <471CDF72.704D275C@hotmail.com>, Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrel
ations@hotmail.com> writes

I have NEVER heard it called an 'idiot box' and I live in Britain. That's not to

Me neither. It's usually called the Idiot's Lantern, not box.

--
(\__/) Bunny says NO to Windows Vista!
(='.'=) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
(")_(")

 

[Rod Speed]

hallerb@aol.com wrote:

On Feb 19, 4:23?pm, 58plumb...@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 18, 8:23 pm, "Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator"

donna....@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I still feel badly that I didn't replace the plastic drain valve
with the brass ball valve because I was afraid the plastic was not
removable (that's what Sears salespeople said anyway, instilling
FUD in my mind).

Don't bother replacing the WH drain now. Fix the clogged dishwasher
instead.
Replace that factory drain valve in six months when you flush the WH
for your first maintenance interval.

As for that clogged dishwasher, you'll likely have to break the
bricks bricking it in in order to get to the innards.
Good luck. Ask questions. Take advice with a grain of salt.

And post back with your results!

donna is a nice new home owner. before you know it she will be like
most of us long termers, doing what we must, and ignoring drain valves
etc.

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.

kinda like pruning a tree, having a limb fall onto the roof, while
replacing damaged shingles fall off roof, hit power line, ripping it
off the side of the house. fortunately the poor fellow didnt get
shocked, or seriously hurt.

but the colateral costs, pay someone to finish tree trimming and clean
up, pay electrician to put service back on house, losts food in
fridge, power was off too long. my friend, spent nearly 2 days in
hospital, sent home on crutches.missed a week work no sick time.......

this happened to a guy i knew.

a old neighbor decided to replace his bathroom floor. lose floorboard,
ran nail into water line, flood took down kitchen cieling..

need plumber, new cieling and contracted out bathroom redo.

so he decided cars would be his thing, took air cleaner off to adjust
carbuerator, reved engine, air cleaner housing dropped into fan went
thru radiator.

tow truck, new fan, new radiator, misc repairs, had carb replaced.

new DIYers be careful so we dont add your story to the list

my memorable event

did some plumbing, opened main valve with one connection still open to
flush lines, main valve failed couldnt shut off, had to call water
company who had great trouble finding main valve, as street had been
raised........

could of got arrested so upset i forgot to pay for valve at hardware
store, i just walked out, no register stop, the store owner who knew
me thought it funny, as my shoies went squish squish waterlogged as i
walked out..

just a memorable day for a home repairer.

a buddy of mine in detroit was doing some wiring, turned breaker back
on, all power in building went out, fact all power from detroit to new
york. that big power failure from some years ago........... wasnt his
fault but just imagine

now that was funny!!!!!

Never had even a single one of those, and I physically built the entire house.

 

[Jeff Liebermann]

Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com> hath wroth:

angryspider wrote:

Television: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Television (often abbreviated to TV, T.V., or more recently, tv;
sometimes called telly, the tube, boob tube, or idiot box in British
English)

I have NEVER heard it called an 'idiot box' and I live in Britain. That's not to
say it SHOULDN'T be called that of course.
Graham

I guess you're culturally deprived. In the colonies, specifically the
left coast, I've heard television service and sets called:
idiot box
vidiot box
one eyed idiot
vast wasteland
glass wasteland
commerical-land
televoid
green screen (from early b&w daze)
Hex Hog (in reference to the 6Mhz of occupied bandwidth)
zap box
bird box (satellite TV set top box)
opiate for the masses
brain washer
sync buzz (disorientation caused by watching too much TV)
tele-revision
glass wall (in reference to large HDTV)
teliot (toilet spelled backwards)
(whatever else I forgot...)

There are also some specialized terms, such as:
Pain Pour Vous (in reference to Pay Per View)
Violence On Demand (in reference to Video On Demand)

There were also some odd mutations for the TV acronym such as:
Thought Vacuum
Trash Vehicle
etc

You might want to correct the Wikipedia article (as I'm too lazy).

No technology is considered successful until it's thoroughly abused. I
guess TV is considered successful.

--
Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com
150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com
Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com
Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

 

[BradGuth]

On Sep 20, 10:35 am, Rich Grise <r...@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:37:45 +0000, Dana wrote:
War, famine, global warming, climate change, disease and so much more.

How will YOU cope?

I cope with those issues by ignoring the shrieking harpies of doom.

Cheers!
Rich

There's no problems whatsoever if you're rich and powerful. Even
being a Muslim, as is Osama bin Laden, is not all that insurmountable
as long as you've got rich and powerful friends like ENRON,
ExxonMobile or Dick Cheney and his brown-nose minions like GW Bush.
- Brad Guth -

 

[jakdedert]

James Sweet wrote:

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.



Oh it happens to the best of us, it's why contractors are bonded. I once
went to replace the distributor on a car, somehow managed to drop a socket
down into the timing belt cover while trying to locate TDC, and then broke
the timing belt in the process of getting that out. Thankfully it turned out
to be a non-interference engine so no major damage was done. On top of all
that, the car happened to belong to my boss, and I was working on it in the
back parking lot at work. A 20 minute job turned into 3 days of early
mornings and late evenings since so much had to come apart to fix the stupid
thing. In the end though no real harm was done and it was a learning
experience to say the least. Some would give up after that, but being a true
DIYer I climbed back in the saddle and haven't made that same mistake again.
For every time I break something and make a job 10x what it should have
been, I save a fortune on a dozen other projects by doing them myself and I
can provide advice to others to prevent them from doing what I did.

When I was a kid I watched my dad hit a water pipe with a Sawzall while
putting in a light fixture, oops! Always take great care to cut a small hole
first so you can see whats in there.


This could turn into a whole new thread of major f*ckups that we learned

from....

(One of) mine was when replacing the clutch on the family car--along
with my older brother--when we were 14 and 17 respectively. I put the
first bolt in the pressure plate, 'bumped' the starter in order to pull
the engine around to access the rest...

....and forgot to pull the coil wire. BAM! Engine fired up (briefly)
and trashed the new pressure plate. Luckily no other damage or injury
resulted.

jak

 

[James Sweet]

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.

Oh it happens to the best of us, it's why contractors are bonded. I once
went to replace the distributor on a car, somehow managed to drop a socket
down into the timing belt cover while trying to locate TDC, and then broke
the timing belt in the process of getting that out. Thankfully it turned out
to be a non-interference engine so no major damage was done. On top of all
that, the car happened to belong to my boss, and I was working on it in the
back parking lot at work. A 20 minute job turned into 3 days of early
mornings and late evenings since so much had to come apart to fix the stupid
thing. In the end though no real harm was done and it was a learning
experience to say the least. Some would give up after that, but being a true
DIYer I climbed back in the saddle and haven't made that same mistake again.
For every time I break something and make a job 10x what it should have
been, I save a fortune on a dozen other projects by doing them myself and I
can provide advice to others to prevent them from doing what I did.

When I was a kid I watched my dad hit a water pipe with a Sawzall while
putting in a light fixture, oops! Always take great care to cut a small hole
first so you can see whats in there.

 

[rush14]

On Nov 4, 1:07 pm, Erica Eshoo <evesunf...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:43:26 -0800, bluerhinoceros wrote:
Here is the freeware/demoware that PC World suggests at
http://www.pcworld.com/video/catid,1610-page,1/video.html
How to Resurrect a Crashed Hard Drive - PC World Video
Electrical recovery for not spinning drives
- Connect to a high wattage power supply

I don't understand this one.
the video implies that the power supply "pushes"
the current rather than allowing the device to draw it.

I agree with you - this is a wierd suggestion by PC World.
But, I can tell you watched the video because that's exactly what it says.

PC World seems to imply that a larger capacity power supply INITIAL
current/voltage (they call it wattage) surge into the reluctant disk drive
could JOLT the dead disk drive into cooperating - sort of like a Taser for
reticent hard disks.

http://www.pcworld.com/video/catid,1610-page,1/video.html
Does anyone else know more about this PC World suggestion to resurrect my
dead but spinning hard drive - is it science or is it voodoo?

I think the key words in the video just prior to the unusual tricks
were "Last ditch" and "Slim chance".
Rush

 

[hallerb@aol.com]

On Feb 19, 4:23�pm, 58plumb...@gmail.com wrote:

On Feb 18, 8:23 pm, "Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator"

donna....@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
I still feel badly that I didn't replace the plastic drain valve with the
brass ball valve because I was afraid the plastic was not removable (that's
what Sears salespeople said anyway, instilling FUD in my mind).

Don't bother replacing the WH drain now. Fix the clogged dishwasher
instead.
Replace that factory drain valve in six months when you flush the WH
for your first maintenance interval.

As for that clogged dishwasher, you'll likely have to break the bricks
bricking it in in order to get to the innards.
Good luck. Ask questions. Take advice with a grain of salt.

And post back with your results!

donna is a nice new home owner. before you know it she will be like
most of us long termers, doing what we must, and ignoring drain valves
etc.

all she needs is doing one preventive maintence job that turns a
working whatever into a non functional disaster that costs a fortune
to fix.

i rather imagine most of us have been thru one of those.

kinda like pruning a tree, having a limb fall onto the roof, while
replacing damaged shingles fall off roof, hit power line, ripping it
off the side of the house. fortunately the poor fellow didnt get
shocked, or seriously hurt.

but the colateral costs, pay someone to finish tree trimming and clean
up, pay electrician to put service back on house, losts food in
fridge, power was off too long. my friend, spent nearly 2 days in
hospital, sent home on crutches.missed a week work no sick time.......

this happened to a guy i knew.

a old neighbor decided to replace his bathroom floor. lose floorboard,
ran nail into water line, flood took down kitchen cieling..

need plumber, new cieling and contracted out bathroom redo.

so he decided cars would be his thing, took air cleaner off to adjust
carbuerator, reved engine, air cleaner housing dropped into fan went
thru radiator.

tow truck, new fan, new radiator, misc repairs, had carb replaced.

new DIYers be careful so we dont add your story to the list

my memorable event

did some plumbing, opened main valve with one connection still open to
flush lines, main valve failed couldnt shut off, had to call water
company who had great trouble finding main valve, as street had been
raised........

could of got arrested so upset i forgot to pay for valve at hardware
store, i just walked out, no register stop, the store owner who knew
me thought it funny, as my shoies went squish squish waterlogged as i
walked out..

just a memorable day for a home repairer.

a buddy of mine in detroit was doing some wiring, turned breaker back
on, all power in building went out, fact all power from detroit to new
york. that big power failure from some years ago........... wasnt his
fault but just imagine

now that was funny!!!!!

 

On Feb 18, 8:23 pm, "Donna Ohl, Grady Volunteer Coordinator"
<donna....@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

I still feel badly that I didn't replace the plastic drain valve with the
brass ball valve because I was afraid the plastic was not removable (that's
what Sears salespeople said anyway, instilling FUD in my mind).

Don't bother replacing the WH drain now. Fix the clogged dishwasher
instead.
Replace that factory drain valve in six months when you flush the WH
for your first maintenance interval.

As for that clogged dishwasher, you'll likely have to break the bricks
bricking it in in order to get to the innards.
Good luck. Ask questions. Take advice with a grain of salt.

And post back with your results!

 

I want to find a women for secret relationship chamiya1977@gmail.com

 

[lee h]

javawizard wrote:

There are pictures of about 20 or so of some of the strangest tools I
have ever seen at www.odd-tools.com - can you figure out what they
are?
Have fun!
- Jeff

In a pretty can, but still rotten, stinking spam.

To be less *obvious* in your effort, post it to one group
at a time. Or at least change the text of your msg now
and then.

 

[z]

On Oct 31, 1:40 pm, javawizard <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote:

There are pictures of about 20 or so of some of the strangest tools I
have ever seen atwww.odd-tools.com- can you figure out what they
are?
Have fun!
- Jeff

they are various types of dildos and vibrators. shame on you.

 

[Pete Wilcox]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 chamiya1977@gmail.com wrote:

I want to find a women for secret relationship chamiya1977@gmail.com

You want to try hanging out in a newsgroup less populated by electronics

geeks, dude. Try alt.wimmen.drool.drool.drool... Just sayin'...

Cheers,
Pete.

 

[DerbyDad03]

On Oct 31, 1:40 pm, javawizard <javawiz...@aol.com> wrote:

There are pictures of about 20 or so of some of the strangest tools I
have ever seen atwww.odd-tools.com- can you figure out what they
are?
Have fun!
- Jeff

# 1 is a spammer's tool
# 2 is a spammer's tool
# 3 is a spammer's tool
# 4 is a spammer's tool
# 5 is a spammer's tool
# 6 is a spammer's tool
# 7 is a spammer's tool
# 8 is a spammer's tool
# 9 is a spammer's tool
# 10 is a spammer's tool
# 11 is a spammer's tool
# 12 is a spammer's tool
# 13 is a spammer's tool
# 14 is a spammer's tool
# 15 is a spammer's tool
# 16 is a spammer's tool
# 17 is a spammer's tool
# 18 is a spammer's tool
# 19 is a spammer's tool
# 20 is a spammer's tool

 

[CheetahHugger]

Does it go though an initialization test so you hear a few buzzing
sounds and see the scanhead position on zero?
If yes, i'd say it works unless the port is blown (seen that only once).

Cheetah

 

[Frank]

javawizard wrote:

There are pictures of about 20 or so of some of the strangest tools I
have ever seen at www.odd-tools.com - can you figure out what they
are?
Have fun!
- Jeff

Take your bung wrench, insert, and rotate

 

[Peabody]

CheetahHugger says...

Does it go though an initialization test so you hear a
few buzzing sounds and see the scanhead position on
zero? If yes, i'd say it works unless the port is blown
(seen that only once).

Cheetah

No, it doesn't do anything. The two LEDs come on, but
nothing else happens. No movement of the scanhead. I've
even tried manually moving the scan head to the middle, then
powering up, but it still doesn't move at all.

Shouldn't there also be something showing in the litle LCD
window? That's dark on this one.