The DIY thread - DIYourself

[jmanic]

Love these walkway lights, but reviews suggest a tendency for the base to fill with water and back up into the battery compartment.



Drilled drainage holes in the base, and added a little plumbers grease to the O-ring to help it do it’s job.
Trifecta would have been dialectical grease on contacts, maybe when I change batteries.

Of 10 in service, only 1 had started to corrode.

 

[Zaskar]

Help me change my 3DS XL screen he says, it will be fun he says......
Got it all apart and realized he (11yo) ordered the wrong replacement screen.

Anyone ever do this themselves?

 

[THATmanMANNY]

My roommates are nasty folks. Shower drain. The other 3/4 is under the paper.

 

[jklett]

My roommates are nasty folks. Shower drain. The other 3/4 is under the paper.
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Haha! That's a monthly job here too!

 

[THATmanMANNY]

Monthly?! You got it worse than me. This is 2/3 years? I think ?

 

[JDurk]

My roommates are nasty folks. Shower drain. The other 3/4 is under the paper.
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Every other month or so for me, and only 1 roommate

 

[one piece crank]

Help me change my 3DS XL screen he says, it will be fun he says......
Got it all apart and realized he (11yo) ordered the wrong replacement screen.

Anyone ever do this themselves?

Yes, it’s called Nintendo Switch!

 

[Zaskar]

Yes, it’s called Nintendo Switch!

He sold that to fund something else but you are right, this is probably heading there again. New screen ordered.

 

[iman29]

My roommates are nasty folks. Shower drain. The other 3/4 is under the paper.
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??

 

[iman29]

Help me change my 3DS XL screen he says, it will be fun he says......
Got it all apart and realized he (11yo) ordered the wrong replacement screen.

Anyone ever do this themselves?
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yes i have done this except the part where I ordered the screen myself ;-)

 

[Zaskar]

yes i have done this except the part where I ordered the screen myself ;-)

I didn't know it was broke. Does that make me a bad father?

 

[iman29]

I didn't know it was broke. Does that make me a bad father?

ah ok. So when you fix it you will be super Dad. My kids still remember when I fixed one of the original game consoles (DS original maybe?) and had to replace the cartridge port which entailed soldering stuff. somehow it worked dont ask me how.

 

[Red Mosquito]

Every other month or so for me, and only 1 roommate

I'm about 2.5 month at a time, which reminds me it's time. I always try to get my wife to come and check it out, but she never wants to.

 

[THATmanMANNY]

I cleaned out the the HE washing machine filter. Yuck! I am applying to be Mike Rowe’s side kick tomorrow.

 

[Red Mosquito]

I cleaned out the the HE washing machine filter. Yuck! I am applying to be Mike Rowe’s side kick tomorrow.

My HE machine is over 6 years old, and I didn't know there was a filter until recently. I've yet to brave this project. Probably explains the smell when it fires up...

 

[Karate Monkey]

My HE machine is over 6 years old, and I didn't know there was a filter until recently. I've yet to brave this project. Probably explains the smell when it fires up...

It's bad, but it's actually not THAT bad...unless you've neglected it. In that case, pull the panels off the washer, and take off all the hoses inside to clean them out. Lots of stuff was hiding in ours.

 

[THATmanMANNY]

I don't think I've done it since the new washer. So we are talking 3 years....
It was like small mouse of lint, a part of noodles, a kid's jewelry bead.

First run a rinse to get it nice and moist and then easy to remove the gunk in the filer. After that run tub clean cycle or normal cycle with bleach.

@rlb yes, it would help with smell

 

[Patrick]

Oxyclean rather than bleach. Won’t smell or ruin the next load.

 

[Patrick]

Getting to use all the tool groups....write-up coming.

@serviceguy is going to love this one.

 

[one piece crank]

@Patrick - how old was that heater?