Re: [BlindHandyMan] Help!

Hi Gerry This is an article I sent to the list recently I hope it helps A Look Down the Drain: Common Clog Problems Everybody knows that plumbing can be a messy, smelly and altogether nasty job. Nobody wants to do it except plumbers, who make good money doing the work nobody else wants to undert

[BlindHandyMan] Lubricating An Exercise Machine

Hi all, I've got an exercise machine that gives you a work-out much like going cross country skiing. It's developed an anoying squeak in one of the bearings. The bearing is a plastic cylinder that pivots on a steel rod. What is the best lubricant to use on this type of bearing? I picked up

RE: [BlindHandyMan] Help!

I think I would start by going and buying a snake and trying to pull all that hair out. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerry Mack Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:56 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan]

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Help!

I've really, really got to unstoop a sink. It's a laundry-room sink. We own two guide dogs and I think the drain is stopped with Labrador hair. The pipes are the older variety. You know--the metal pipes. Not the Pvc pipes. How do I unstop this pipe and get this sink back in circulation? Gerry

[BlindHandyMan] Installing Door Knobs and Locks

Hi Everyone Installing Doorknobs and Locks Technology has affected almost every aspect of the daily life of modern man. This being said, it would seem that some menial tasks have been overlooked, like installing a doorknob. However, the hand of technology has simplified even this job. Keep in m

[BlindHandyMan] Roto- zip a Handy Tool

Hi Everyone A World of Uses for the RotoZip From drywall and carpentry work to flooring and HVAC, very few tools offer the versatility of a RotoZip. Originally designed to make drywall cut-outs an easy chore, the RotoZip spiral saw has not only made that task easy to master but has evolved int

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Installing a dead bolt lock.

There are probably many ways to locate the striker but on the few occasions I have done it I just measure either from the ground up or the top down and allow for the difference between the top or bottom of the door to the corresponding member of the frame. At the top this is only usually a small

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Ventless Gas Logs

Hi, This is probably not actually soot. There is quite a lot of water vapour as a byproduct of burning gas and along with other interior moisture in the environment you will get a little more condensation in some places like corners where the ceiling meets the wall and other slightly cooler sur

[BlindHandyMan] Installing a dead bolt lock.

Hello all you Bob Vila types... I am redoing the "Devil Dog" brewery and I need to install a dead-bolt lock on the"Devil Dog" house door. I have purchased the lock and had someone read me the instructions and it seems pretty strait foreword the only thing is that I will need to buy the correct si

[BlindHandyMan] Ventless Gas Logs

We have ventless gas logs in our house that we have been using during the winter for heat. My family came down this weekend and told my wife and I that there is black soot around the ceiling fans and around the edge of the ceiling. What I am wanting to know is there any way to adjust the gas logs

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

What I do is take the cold chisel and put it flat against the inside of the striker plate and tap the chisel away from the door jam. - Original Message - From: William Stephan To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] D

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

OK, thanks, probably a dumb question, but do you wrap on the flat part of the striker plate, or hit the edge so that the latch can enngage? -Original Message- .From: "rj"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .Sent: 3/5/07 3:50:32 PM .To: "blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com" .Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door

Re: [BlindHandyMan] what to know about replacing your central unit

Don't know for sure, I wired mine together with the smoke detectors directly into the house wiring so that they will all sound together. What I can say is that when I first wired the lot together and before I connected them to the mains, while I was waiting for someone optically enabled to doubl

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

Yeah that was my plan, but my wife wouldn't buy into it. -Original Message- .From: "Dan Rossi"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .Sent: 3/5/07 3:02:07 PM .To: "blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com" .Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair . .You could put really strong springs on the doors so they will

RE: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

Mic Thanks I think that is all the info that I will need. -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mick Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:29 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup The wi

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

Some times it just takes a sharp rap on the striker plate. I use a steel chisel for this purpose. - Original Message - From: William Stephan To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 3:53 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair Hi: I have a

Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

The wires will feel the same. However, there will be some sort of feelable difference concerning the connector. It will either have opposite connectors for each wire (female, male). Or, it could have the plastic connector keyed in some way. Sometimes there is a slot over one of the terminals

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

You could put really strong springs on the doors so they will slam themselves instead of you having to slam them. *GRIN* -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel:(412) 268-9081 Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~

[BlindHandyMan] Door latch repair

Hi: I have a couple doors that don't latch unless you really slam 'em, and was wondering if any of you had ideas for remedying this. The house is old, so I imagine settling has caused at least some of the problem. Any thoughts will be welcome. Yahoo! Groups Sponso

RE: [BlindHandyMan] bond crete questions

Hi Spiro We used it to seal the concrete before painting it with concrete paint. I am going to use it to seal two counter tops where I will cut out for the sinks to seal it against water penetration before sealing down the sinks. No I am not using bond Crete for the seals under the sinks. . I w

[BlindHandyMan] bond crete questions

will this stuff make a good cawk where a patio of concrete meets the stone= house? Will it crack with expansion and contraction? In place of a latex strip? Will it mix well with patch filler? Can it be poured and set in forms with= patch filler, where ordering such small amounts of concrete wo

RE: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

Thanks for all the good feedback it is helpful but my nain question if any one knows is spasifically is, about the physical caricteristics of the wires in the truck itself. Will one feel thinner than the other or will I have to have some one sighted tell me the colors. If they are for example one r

Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

if you can feel the actual woofer, hook it up and see if the woofer pushes out when there are long bass notes. They will push out during bass drum kicks, so don't use this. Use a big bass sounding note, and a long one if possible. Switch the wires again and see which one gives you bigger bass or

Re: [BlindHandyMan] (hi marks) Flexible Pattern Braille cells

Maybe what I had was onld on their shelves and that is why my performance was runny also. I eventually used the 3 bottles of black to air tight some speakers box fronts. I got a guy to put in about 4 layers of it after the fronts were screwed intight. :) On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, NLG wrote: > Your

Re: [BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

wiring speakers out of phase can make them sound like crap, but it won't hurt the radio or speakers any. Although, for best long term results, it is best to always wire them correctly when new. The, initialization of the wire will be correct. I've done thousands of hours of listening on this to

Re: [BlindHandyMan] TALKING MULTI-METER

right now they are reduced in price to $36.95 canadian (your guess is as good as mine) and Bob Gadd is the guy to speak with. This info is all valid as of this posting, and the continuity tester is said to be louder than the standard, which is what I require. On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Ricque wrote:

Re: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

Don't know if this a window or Jaws key, but you can find the address of a person by holding down the alt key+1 - Original Message - From: Betsy Whitney, Dolphin Press To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:31 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] gas gril

Re: [BlindHandyMan] what to know about replacing your central unit

Hi, I just got a CO and smoke detector. Is the batterry life on a CO unit different from that of a simple smoke detector? Will it be a year, or 6 months? Or does it depend on make? Thanks On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Dale Leavens wrote: > I am not sure about what it is you are smelling but most all forc

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Question About My Gas Stove

No. The oven dial is actually a thermostat. When the oven temperature reaches the selected setting temperature, the thermostat senses the temperature of the oven and turns the gas off. After the gas is off, the oven will slowly start to drop in temperature. The thermostat will sense the drop

RE: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

Aloha all, It is possible to find the email address for the person who sent a message by going to the top of a message. It is in the From: box. Betsy At 07:08 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote: >Larry >You did not provide your email. >Send recipe to >[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [BlindHandyMan] New electronic myth suggestion

Dale, I don't know what the hell you are doing with your remotes, but I'll remember to use gloves if I am ever visiting your place. *GRIN* and, yes, it was my buddy Mark and I who created a new urban legend. Nice job on your legend though. Well crafted. -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mel

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Question About My Gas Stove

It would be my guess, it would take less or more time for the oven to reach its temperature setting. For you are cutting or turning up the BTUs. RJ - Original Message - From: Brice Mijares To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 10:59 AM Subject: Re: [Bl

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Question About My Gas Stove

question; by messing with this regulator, is there a chance that the dial for setting the oven temperature will loose it's calibration? Another words, if you want to set your oven temperature at 350 degrees, and by turning up or down the regulator, wouldn't that either lower or higher the hea

[BlindHandyMan] wiring speakers in my pickup

It doesn't matter if the wires are switched on the speakers, as long as both of them is in the same phase. This means the one speaker shouldn't be pushing forward while the other is pulling back. An easy way to check this is to hold the speakers face to face while tuning the radio to a unused f

Re: [BlindHandyMan] (hi marks) Flexible Pattern Braille cells

Your post aroused my curiosity so I got my bottle out. I marked the number 5 key here on my phone (just for something to test on. It definatly doesn't seem as thick as it did when I first used it, years ago,) the mark doesn't have the nice rounded feel, it kind of flattened a bit. I am not s

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Question About My Gas Stove

Hi :) If you have one burner running, and turn on a SECOND burner, does the flame on the FIRST burner drop? If not, it's not the regulator. If the regulator's "stuck", when you turn on the second burner, the pressure drops and burner 1's flame will drop. The more burners you turn on, the lower

Re: [BlindHandyMan] (hi marks) Flexible Pattern Braille cells

unfortunately, this is a Maxi product. The real Hi Marks were a thicker material that didn't run. I've had this before I swore off buying from them for their unethical practices and both the black and the white were runny. So I couldn't blame it on the ink altering the ethers. The material I pos

Re: [BlindHandyMan] (hi marks) Flexible Pattern Braille cells

Kentucky school for the blind used to make it. I've been told they have discontinued that. places like thenewvisionstore.com sell a very similar stuff. On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Lenny McHugh wrote: > Does anyone know where I can purchase Hi Marks in the Us? In the past I used > and really liked this

[BlindHandyMan] does your gas grill burn to hot?

yes the bottle has a valve. I've tried cracking it open a tad, but it still burns to hot. The grill has 4 independent burners with Hi, medium, and lo settings. - Original Message - From: "Bill Gallik" < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: < blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007

Re: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

In my case, there is a control valve for each burner, with 3 settings, hi, medium, and lo. Even with the control valves set to lo, it burns to hot. Any grill you buy comes with a regulator that you don't have any control over. Once you crack the valve open, the regulator keeps the same constan

RE: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

[EMAIL PROTECTED] to many birthdays, not enough brains. Regards Larry Stansifer -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert J. Moore Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 10:08 PM To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [BlindHandy

[BlindHandyMan] Question About My Gas Stove

Hey my gas is regulated and the flame is not high enough. I have a tapid Stove. I think that they is supposed to be a screw that you can turn to regulate this but all suggestions appreciated. Barbara [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Don To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com

RE: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

Hi Larry I'd like to know about this devil dog barbecue? I've got a Royal Sovereign gas grill. It's very easy to control the temperature. You do have to learn to accommodate for external temperatures. I also do smoking with it too. Chris At 06:52 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote: >I have a double burner

RE: [BlindHandyMan] gas grills

Hey Larry, Please send me the recipe of the "Devil Dog BBQ Ribbs". See ya, Scooter Contact me at: Donnie Parrett 1956 Asa Flat Road Annville, KY 40402 Home # 606-364-3321 Cell # 606-438-2557 Church # 606-364-PRAY Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: blindhandyman@yaho