When I ran underground wire for our front post light, I installed a GFCI box where the wire came out of the house. The GFCI outlet never worked. I did some troubleshooting initially, but I could not solve the problem. That was 34 years ago. Yes, 34 years ago. I walked by that GFCI for…
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I think it was over a month before the GFCI tripped again. You could imagine that things Efiwym, my wife, wanted to say to me. She had that look on her face that I was so familiar with when she told me the GFCI tripped. I had spent about $150 trying to solve this problem. …
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Now that I was focused on the GFCI outlet, I needed to see if it indeed was the problem. I checked the GFCI outlet with a voltmeter. I noticed that you needed to press the probes deeply into the outlet slots to get the voltmeter to read. The outlet was over 35 years old, so…
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Several months ago, we had a problem with our cordless toothbrushes. The batteries would no longer charge. We had them for several years, so I was not surprised that the batteries were going bad. I did the normal troubleshooting. I cleaned the base of the charger and the bottom of the toothbrush and tried to…
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After painting the powder room, Efiwym, my wife, was still not happy with one wall. Maybe I was going blind, but I was not seeing what she was seeing. She claimed she could see the old paint coming through the new paint. Relying on this trite cliche, “Happy wife, happy life,” I repainted the wall.…
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For months my wife, Efiwym, has hinted that she wanted the powder room painted. She was willing to help with the rolling on the paint, as long as I could cut in the trim. Since I finished the cabinet doors, I decided it was time to check this item off my “Honey Do” list. I…
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We purchased our second 45-inch flat screen TV. The old one would go into the family room and replace our 26-inch tube TV. However, the TV could not fit into the TV cabinet. It would need to sit on the top of it. The height was too high for viewing purposes, plus it looked weird.…
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The following class I brought with me dimensional pine lumber for my project. I had 1-inch-thick pine for the face frame, sides, drawer, and shelves. I needed to bring in 5/4-inch stock for the cabinet top. I would work on the top in a later class. I got my first chance to use the table…
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DIY Project – TV Cabinet – The Plan I like woodworking. Not the type where you use hand tools, but the kind where you get to use power tools. Not just power tools, but big power equipment, like planers, table saws and drill presses. I enjoyed watching The New Yankee Workshop with Norm Abrams. Norm…
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Early in spring we had large gusts of northerly winds that turned our 6-foot-high privacy fence into a giant sail. The winds were so strong that a post on a panel was broken. It also resulted in the panel breaking away from the post and it was just flapping in the wind like a flag.…