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Used a jack under a frame rail on a box truck In the first pic cracks can be seen where the tire is sharply folded over. This tire is being scrapped anyway but I was wondering if these cracks indicate serious dry rot or if it is normal for an older tire when folded over severely

My internet service provider (Acanac) orignally had me on DSL, last year they switched me over to coaxial cable and a month ago ran a fibre optic line to my house. The fibre optic cable terminates in a Nokia modem and there is a ethernet cable from this modem feeding a TPLink Deco WiFi modem. I...

This bulb, one out of four in a small chandelier, was flickering and I replaced it with a Dicuno brand from Amazon. The new one did not flicker. I fed 120V to the bulb I took off, on the bench, and it did not flicker. Heat is not an issue in this chandelier application as in the bulb not being...

I bought this screen protector...

Found this when I opened up Kidde and SMC smoke/CO detectors. There is a tiny vent hole at the top and there is a pad of moisture/odour absorbent gel taped over the hole. I am guessing capacitor. If I momenatrily short the two ends together and then monitor the voltage, it slowly starts climbing...

Similar to this one https://www.broan-nutone.com/en-us/product/ventilationfans/9422p House was built in 1987, so that makes it 37 years old. The pic shows the wirng diagram label on the inside of the heater housing. The heater specifies two 250W IR BR40 lamps. There is a small fan inside the...

https://www.makita.ca/index2new.php?event=tool&id=3596&catid=2 I bought one a couple of months ago and am getting about 130 ft lbs of "nut busting torque" instead of the advertised 740 ft lbs. I am using 3AH Makita batteries which have been used in my drill for the last eight years. I am...

I have some sealed unopened litre bottles of brake fluid that have been stored inside my house for 2 1/2 years. The only concern I have is that the bottles are plastic. and perhaps some moisture has migrated through the plastic into the fluid. If the bottles were glass I would not have any...

I have a couple of customers with aluminium house wiring. I have been using the CO/ALR Marretes but the twisted-on nuts tend to weaken the aluminium from the flexing and cause it to break. I don't run into aluminium wiring often enough to justify investing in AlumiConn connectors. Thinking of...

The system has six zones and I used my small Campell Hausfeld hotdog compressor to blow out water, one zone at a time. Repeated the procedure twice. Not sure if I did an adequate job since only a few sprinkler heads popped up and I did not see any water come out from some of the others. I...

These four AAs were used in a electric deadbolt lock for a couple of months. 2nd one is an Amazon Basics NiMh dated Dec 2017, the other three are Eneloop NiMhs which I purchased around 2012. There is no date on the Eneloops. The Weiser deadbolt warning of low battery went off (goes off...

Got a call from a 1-800 number claiming to be the Fraud Investigation Department of CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) and wanted my credit card number (I do have a CIBC card) and expiry date. I played along and gave the scammer a fake number and expiry date. He put me on hold for a few...

I am connecting a Bell Modem in the basement to a booster on the first floor for TV. The modem gets its signal through a fiber optic cable. Couple of questions. I wired the RJ45 jacks on both ends of the patch cord according to the T568B standard in a straight through configuration, not...

I hate it when I lose tools and do my best to avoid it. Most of the tools I have, I have had for decades. Last Sunday I was working on a truck belonging to a moving company and when I got home and was putting away my tools. I noticed my beloved little utility knife, which I have had for close to...

Customer called me about a leak into his kitchen cabinet. Water was leaking from the base of the faucet on to the counter where the water was very visible and then making its way down. How do you miss that unless you don't clean up spilled water on the countertop? From the mold in the cabinet...

They always come with one of the six heat sink tabs missing. The pic is from a Amazon listing...

Hunter 3 spd/reverse. I thought that a bad capacitor was the issue and checked the two capacitors in the fan canopy. There is a single 5 microfarad capacitor and a double 5/5 microfard capacitor and they all tested good on a Fluke 375 which measures capacitance. Also measured currents with the...

Freightliner Coolant Surge tank. The ridges on the 1/2 in and 1 in hose barbs only go half way - they are a half circle, not a full circle. For the life of me, I can't figure out why thay made it that way. Also there was casting flash on all three barbs and I had to sand them out to avoid leaks...

It took me three hours with my small electric pressure washer, Sun Joe SPX2598 1500 psi/ 1.2 gpm, to clean the patio.The patio is about 30 ft by 15 ft. The stones cleaned up nicely. I was covered in mud when I was done and so was the white stucco of the house. I washed out the mud from the...

The handle splines, which engage the cartridge splines, are worn about 50%. It is a 40 year old Aquabrass faucet and the handle is not available any more. I replaced the cartridge, so its splines are new. I have the Loctite 262 and epoxy. Which one will work better? Loctite Quick Metal or...