“”Every school should have a “fix-it lab” where students learn to repair their clothes, bikes and electronics. We should grow up knowing that not everything is disposable, that care and repair are part of living well on this planet.”” https://www.facebook.com/reel/1280502713546957/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Archive for the ‘Repair, alignment’ Category:
2025-07-08 Full Restoration Of Old AM Transistor Radio
This is hard to believe. It’s a lot of work to do on a cheap AM radio. But it gives me a lot of ideas. I wonder how many hours it took to do this, we see it happening in nust a few minutes. https://www.facebook.com/restorationpretty/videos/591611740013679/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
2025-02-25 Tesla Breaks The Mold With RIM
He tells us how the Cybercab will be made using RIM – reactive injection molding. Plus unboxed assembly. https://x.com/thejefflutz/status/1894130884183560481
2025-01-22 Chris Boden Gets Foul-mouthed About His Friend’s House Wiring Mess
Chris Boden gets foul-mouthed about his friend’s house wiring mess.
2024-04-16 White Vinegar Isn’t Neutralizing NiCad Electrolyte
I put white vinegar on the areas where the NiCad juice turned the PCB green, and it didn’t seem to do anything. So after awhile I washed it off with plain tapwater. I used a soft brush and a lot of the green coating washed off. It’s not in very good shape. I’m wondering if
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2024-03-24 Signal Distortion From High-K Ceramic Capacitors
A good article about signal distortion in a Butterworth low pass opamp filter using C0G and X7R MLCCs. https://www.edn.com/signal-distortion-from-high-k-ceramic-capacitors/
2023-12-26 Rejuvenating Old Solar Panels
This is new to me. But solar panels are getting so inexpensive that it may be cheaper to replace them. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/technology-rejuvenate-old-solar-panels?fbclid=IwAR30x1JpCMipqs7cAe2wfCy1EvAMAF2ut_iTMWBB4_cZkKtiNZg6CxJRn18
2023-12-04 CR Car Reliability Report Explained – Important Details
One issue Consumer Reports had was the EVs and PHEVs were a smaller sample size, leading to one ‘bad apple’ skewing the overall results. So read this article for a better explanation before jumping to conclusions. Also, Tesla models 3 and Y are recommended by CR. Adding Context To That Consumer Reports Electric Car Reliability
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2023-10-21 I Had To Get My Uverse Wiring Repaired
This Saturday I had to wait for first, an at&t tech to verify that the outage was in their cabling. Then he found that the problem was 585 feet upstream, and he didn’t do pole climbing, he had tondispatch someone from Construction who climbed poles and had a bucket truck that could access the cables
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