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Welp, I feel like an idiot for this one. Was weedeating last night and the next thing I know, I look up and see glass all over the front porch and a rather nasty sight with what's left of the storm door. This is a Larson door and is less than 2 years old. After I got the glass cleaned...

Maybe a bit of a strange question, but I have very little experience with woodworking and carpentry and thought I might get some advice here. I have the below camera I was given. This is a Kodak Eastman View no. 1 in 8x10, probably from the early to mid 1920s. My real interest is in restoring...

I did a 4 wheel brake job on my MIL's 2017 Camry over the weekend. For reference, this is pretty close to a base model LE I think(4 cyl, steel wheels, but does have a backup camera). She bought it new and has put 120K on it, most of it around town driving but they usually take it to Florida a...

Suppose one has a head gasket failure(composite gasket) on an engine with a cast iron block/head. The cause of the failure has been determined, and the engine will remain in the car and assembled while the a machine shop does a light skim on the head(6 thou) to correct a small amount of warp...

For a while now, I've been doing some sporadic business on Ebay with some older camera flash gear. Basically I've gotten pretty adept at repair and built up a decent inventory of pieces, so I offer both rebuilt/repaired items and a repair service. One of my big businesses is rebuilding...

Our house was built in the 1950s, and is mostly 2 prong outlets. A few circuits(garage, kitchen, bathroom) have GFCI installed with "No Equipment Ground" stickers on the plates(as per code, as I understand it). When I've probed those circuits, they do indeed test out as the ground being...

Suppose one finds themself out of "proper" dielectric grease, but has on hand large volumes of the above grease, the same as in this link https://www.amazon.com/Dow-Corning-Vacuum-Lubricant-5-3oz/dp/B001UHMNW0?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&smid=A3IHZ5U56GDR3K&th=1 Is there any...

Trying to tackle some long-overdue things in my MG... A few years back, I sourced a very nice Motorola AM/FM push button radio. It may be a few years newer than my car, but is reasonably period correct. After I went through it, cleaned it up, and did some light restoration work it came to life...

The positive cable on MG has been a constant problem for as long as I've had the car. I've cut it back and put a new terminal on it a few times, but corrosion seems to always return(namely where the bare wire is clamped to the terminal) and I have trouble. In addition, it's always bugged me that...

I have a bit of an idle/crazy thought. I don't have a huge need for a blower, and for when I do outside the Homelite branded handheld gas one I have does the job. I considered buying an Echo backpack last year when a local dealer retired/closed, but even for the price on offer I just couldn't...

I've been complaining for a while about my M1 MacBook Pro with 8gb RAM(plus the stupid touchbar). It still has a lot of life left in it, but 8gb was never enough, especially when running a program like Lightroom and trying to do anything else in the background. My wife's 2015 MBA is on its...

Putting this under the tool section since that seems the most fitting place. Basically, I'm looking to get a high end/high quality bench PSU and potentially a multimeter to pair with it. I'm mostly looking at older models of HP for these, although sometimes they show up with the Agilent or...

Or in other words a 2013 Mac Pro, AKA Mac Pro 6,1. These came out to much mixed reaction even back in 2013, and at the time I basically considered it a re-incarnation of the Cube. Among other things, people loved its small size and quiet operation, but lamented the lack of expandability(a...

In my day job, I do a lot of work with mass spectrometers(not as much as I use to, but still as much as I can), and with mass spectrometers come high vacuum systems. I'm in the midst of doing some major upgrades to one now, and am getting ready to convert its diffusion pump to a...

Checking this out of a project I'm trying to put together...for some full context this is a rail to mount a macro photography set up to a tripod. I'm trying to make the configuration flexible, but am trying to give a conceivable most extreme example. I apologize also for using mixed imperial and...

I realize this is probably an odd question, but I'm looking for some AA-sized Ni-Cd cells, preferably flat top without tabs(I have a battery spot welder to add my own as needed). For this specific application, I'm not comfortable using NiMH because the charging circuit is relatively simple and...

It seems as though this is becoming an increasingly difficult thing to find. I need antifreeze for my MG(thanks to me draining the radiator prior to removal then being stupid about where I left the drain pan....) This is a cast iron engine with a copper radiator. I really prefer to stick to...

For those of you who may be into photography, it's hard to ignore that Nikon and Canon have basically said that mirrorless is the way of the future. I follow Nikon a lot more closely than I do Canon, and they have officially/publicly announced that they will no longer be developing new DSLR...

June 3rd, I ordered a bunch of miscellaneous stuff from Amazon-basically all stuff I needed around the house or garage. There were some spark plugs, mower parts, camera memory cards, and a few other odds and ends, but still totaling close to $500. June 5th, I check and it shows out for...

I've had my fair share of timing lights in the last 7 years(since buying my MG in 2015 and then learning what a timing light was a few months later). My first was a standard HF one(not dial-back) that lasted a few months. I then splurged and bought an HF dial-back that worked until I...