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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: February 14, 2016, 2:58 pm
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DIY Coin Cell Battery Charger for 0.3$[/center]
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: August 10, 2016, 2:25 pm
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[center]How to do a Western Union Splice [/center]
by deluges
This is the solder splice that offers the least resistance I've
ever found : less than a hundred micro ohms! :o [img
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:D
It's quite easy to do and offers great mechanical resistance for
virtually no electrical resistance. :)
First you want to remove a good 5 cm (2 inches) of insulant on
the wires, then twist them on themselves to make a single thick
brand.
There's a great scheme here that came from wikipedia and sums up
the following:
1) Fold in the middle and give one or two turns
2) Wrap tightly around the other wire using pliers or your
fingers if you feel strong today
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: October 30, 2016, 3:55 pm
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10 Unconventional Ways to Use Old Paper Towel and Toilet Paper
Rolls Around the House[/center]
Libby Baker
October 30, 2016 59 Comments (numerous links in article at
main link)
Toilet paper and paper towels: great household tools, but there
just really aren’t many desirable eco-friendly substitutes in a
green living household, besides outfitting your bathroom with a
bidet. It helps to be conscious of your toilet and paper towel
consumption, of course. And forgoing the lotioned, cushioned,
perfumed brands for unbleached and recycled paper will help. But
you can also minimize your contribution to the landfill by
recycling the rolls from your toilet paper and paper towel
rolls. Here are some great, unconventional ways to reduce and
reuse:
1. Cord Holder
Don’t buy plastic contraptions to keep your cords from becoming
tangled. Make your own ridiculously easy recycled cord holder
with the cardboard tubes from toilet paper or paper towels. And
you can fancy it up with wrapping paper — perfect for saving
those tiny leftovers not quite big enough to wrap a gift. Use
this trick for keeping string lights from becoming a tangled
mess!
2. Green Seedling Greenhouse
I love the idea of recycling products made from trees back into
the garden. The diameter of a paper tube is the perfect size for
sprouting seedlings! Why not make use of that leftover plastic
produce container to make an ideal seedling greenhouse! You can
just plant these Toilet Roll Seed Starter pots right into the
ground. The cardboard will decompose as the plant grows.
3. Plant Protectors
Once those seedlings are growing strong in the garden, keep them
safe from bugs and critters by making Plant Protectors. You can
also place tubes around the base of young trees to keep them
safe and provide support.
4. Bird Feeders
Don’t forget the critters who help with pest control in the
garden! You can attract birds to your garden by keeping a source
of food, like these awesome bird feeders made from toilet paper
tubes, hanging on your trees during the lean winter months!
5. Napkin Rings
You may have already ditched the paper napkins for reusable
cloth napkins, and now you can make them even prettier with
these upcycled napkin rings made from leftover fabric scraps.
Or, use up leftover yarn by wrapping the cardboard tube to make
these cute napkin rings.
6. Art
You don’t have to spend a ton of money to redecorate your home!
Get creative and make your own decor out of things you already
have. Spruce up a boring old wall clock or make visually
striking picture frames by adding scrolls made from recycled
cardboard tubing, or make a faux iron gate to add interest to
your walls. Better yet, make your own artwork by using foraged
branches and cardboard tubes. Or just create cardboard tube art
directly on the walls! How about a beautiful bouquet of
cardboard thistles in a vase on your table? Let your imagination
go wild!
7. Knitting
Got a knitting hobby and too many needles? Keep track of them
all by storing them according to size in leftover cardboard
tubes. Spool skeins into balls around tubes to keep yarn from
getting tangled. You can even use the tubes and some popsicle
sticks to make your own Spool Knitter!
8. Gift Boxes
Never buy fancy gift boxes again! Make your own with this easy
Cardboard Tube Pillow Box tutorial.
9. Tabletop Goodies
Protect your table tops by making beautiful and delicately
scrolled drink coasters. Or just cover the whole tabletop with
this table runner.
10. Eyeglass Case
Cardboard tubing is the perfect size for one of the most
important accessories for those of us who wear glasses: eyeglass
case! Make your own fabric covered eyeglass case with this
no-sew tutorial!
What ideas do you have for ways to reuse these little cardboard
tubes?
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: November 24, 2016, 5:33 pm
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[center][font=times new roman]From Firewood Log to Bowl (First
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by craftedworkshop in woodworking
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I turned this chunk of firewood log into my first bowl on the
lathe. This is my first ever woodturning project, and most
certainly won’t be my last. Turning is one of the most rewarding
woodworking skills I’ve learned thus far, and now every log I
see seems to contain a hidden bowl. To see this process in
action, check out the video above!
Now, on to the steps![/quote]
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: January 30, 2017, 7:20 pm
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[center]Why Does Everyone Put Their Pots and Pans under the
Stove?[/center]
You know that drawer underneath the oven, where you throw all
the saucepan lids, cookie sheets, and muffin tins? Manufacturers
say that it's actually a warming drawer, and you’re supposed to
be using it to keep hot foods at serving temperature, especially
when you’re making an elaborate meal for a lot of guests. Who
knew? However, it’s important to know that this drawer isn’t
designed for cooking food, just for keeping it warm after it
comes out of the oven.
Kitchens of the past:
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Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford. It had a single fire source
and the temperature could be regulated for several pots at the
same time.
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Sharp, hit the market in 1834. The gas stove was easier to
regulate and required less upkeep than wood or coal stoves.
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the introduction of home electricity. The Amana Corporation, a
subsidiary of Raytheon, introduced the first microwave in 1967,
but the high price and the public's fear of radiation delayed
its acceptance.
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: April 25, 2017, 12:50 pm
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[quote author=agelbert link=topic=9260.msg129882#msg129882
date=1492796365]
[quote author=RE link=topic=9260.msg129855#msg129855
date=1492750787]
[quote author=Palloy2 link=topic=9260.msg129854#msg129854
date=1492750506]
Intel i5-7xxx are quad core, but then they probably use too much
power to be run fanless, so this is likely something new.
There are plenty of Intel boards with quad core on them, and if
you open it up to all AliExpress, there must be thousands.
Anyway, quad core isn't THAT important until you want to run
VirtualBox, then the cores and the RAM have to be shared out.
[quote]As far as those prebuilt Micros are concerned, what do
you think would be adequate configuration? [/quote]
For doing what?
[quote] the i5/4010U. How does that processor stack up overall
IYHO?[/quote]
No idea.
[quote]8 Gigs RAM/128 Gigs SSD.[/quote]
If you've got that much data to store I'd be surprised.
Do these things come with Linux pre-installed? What Linux? If
not, then you are going to have to learn how to install stuff.
That's not "pro" stuff. Diagnosing problems and fixing software
is pro stuff.
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Forget I ever asked. Your expertiese is not proving very
helpful here.
RE
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Yup. :coffee:
RE, Palloy's instructions for the Virtualbox running of Linux
inside windows are okay but they lack something important. I
researched all this a couple of years back and got reliable
instructions from Ask Leo on how to do this. The problem is that
defending Linux from hacking in general and malware in
particular can be tricky. Norton does that, of course, but, at
least according to Ask Leo, retail security software is NOT rock
solid on Linux but is extremely reliable on Windows. Since I
have (reluctantly) been forced into windows10 with my i3 new
Dell Inspiron machine, I received the unexpected pleasant
surprise of not being a target of the NSA malware recently being
used to hack windows versions :emthup: :icon_sunny: (Palloy
posted here on it recently - It's an article in the Intercept).
At any rate, security is NUMERO UNO for me. And I don't want to
even try to keep up with the hackers out there. So, I pay Norton
about $84 a year to do the heavy lifting while I continue to use
CFS in dealing with e-mails and suspicious web sites. Norton has
been good to me. They have saved my arse on several occasions
over the last DECADE. :emthup:
Linux has a lot of attraction for me but I never got around to
that Virtualbox testing of it. Maybe someday.
When I had a total disk failure two computers ago, I was able to
run Ubuntu from a CD to shop for a new computer with a dial up
backup I still had. I no longer have dial up (I save $19.95 a
month by not having it :icon_mrgreen:) so that is no longer an
option.
The last time my hard disk failed, I was STUCK without a
computer to shop for a computer so I had to do it by phone
(UGH!). :P
Yeah, I should have a backup hard disk with an image of my
operating system to avoid that, but I haven't gotten around to
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Hope this helps you, RE. :icon_sunny: I'm certain Palloy will,
of course, not be impressed AT ALL. ::)
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[quote author=Palloy2 link=topic=9260.msg129923#msg129923
date=1492820732]
Well, I'm impressed with your commitment to security. :emthup:
Norton (now Symantec) AntiVirus does run on Linux, but since
they charge for it and it's not open source, Ubuntu doesn't make
it available, and nobody would use it. ClamAV is the
recommended free and open source solution. Symantec SAV has to
be a complete re-write of the Windows version, because the
arrangement of the file system on Linux is completely different
from Windows (no C:\ at the top of the hierarchy of
directories, no Registry, etc). 99% of all viruses are written
to target Windows machines, and won't run at all on Linux.
Even if someone were to write a virus specifically for Linux,
and sneak the file into the file system somehow, it could only
run under your user's account, and so would only have access to
that part of the file system that you own - /home/palloy/
(being equivalent to C:\Users\palloy\ ). So it could trash your
files, but it couldn't trash other users' files, or the OS
itself, which belongs to "root".
And you DO have a backup of your files, don't you? - yes, of
course I do, every day at 01:00 am.
Suffice to say that in 5 years of Linux, on what is now 5
machines, I have never even been warned about a virus, let alone
been infected by one. :icon_sunny:
6 machines if you count my Android smartphone, but I rarely
switch it on, and NEVER let it talk to the other computers on
the home network, because I don't trust Android and because the
Android version is no longer supported. :(
Ubuntu is owned by Canonical, who I suppose make their money by
providing paid technical support. However the Linux community
experts provide free support at places like AskUbuntu,
StackExchange, etc.
[/quote]
Well, I haven't gotten around to total image backups although I
think that would be ideal. What I do, since I'm too cheap to get
another hard disk or even a solid state USB disk on a stick to
put a recovery thing on, I take my CDs and copy my NEW document
and picture files, current screenshot of desktop with programs
list, favorites list, names of latest program additions and new
sketchup graphic files I've doodled in my spare time to it in
compressed form once a month.
If the hard disk dies before I make my recovery thing, I'll just
have to wing it. :P
Having a tiny forum also provides me with a second backup to my
pictures and screeds that won't perish with my hard disk. I do
not trust the cloud and will never store zip on it. Yes, I know
the gooberment, microsofty, my server and the NSA knows every
keystroke I have ever made and has stored all my activity since
I was born (on the internets), but they don't like to admit
that. :evil4:
So, I do what I can. 8)
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: August 1, 2017, 6:05 pm
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Agelbert NOTE: A BLDC Motor is a Brushless DC Motor. Old PC disk
drives and ceiling fans have BLDC motors. 8)
[center]Make a Powerful Generator From a Dead BLDC
Motor[/center]
by omars2
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Hi!
In this instructable, I'm going to teach you how to convert a
dead Brushless DC motor into a powerful 3-phase energy
generator.
The process is really simple and after going through this
instructable, i am sure you will be able to do it for yourself.
The absence of brushes in them makes it unique when compared to
other generators because its efficiency is much greater than the
brushed ones that undergo losses because of the friction.
When a bldc Motor motor stops working.It is usually it's driving
circuit that dies.
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: September 18, 2017, 10:16 pm
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[center]Why Are Ice Cubes Often Cloudy?
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Tap water typically contains benign impurities such as lime,
calcium, fluoride, nitrates, magnesium, and other organic
elements. When water freezes, it hardens from the outside in,
and those impurities are pushed into the center of the cube,
causing the ice to have a cloudy appearance. However, boiling
the water first will remove most of the impurities and provide
clearer ice.
Ice, ice, baby:
Using bottled water that has been purified using a reverse
osmosis process, or another type of distillation, will also
improve ice cube clarity.
Cloudy ice is also related to how quickly the water is chilled.
Most home freezers cool very rapidly, and tiny air bubbles
(actually, dissolved air) get trapped before they can dissipate.
High-end restaurants use systems that freeze pure water slowly,
in layers, so that air bubbles have plenty of time to escape.
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: September 27, 2017, 4:54 pm
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Re: Homebody Handy Hints
By: AGelbert Date: October 9, 2017, 5:53 pm
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[center]Making a Powerful Generator From a Blender Motor
DIY[/center]
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[quote]Hi!
In this instructable, i will teach you how to transform a 220
volts Blender motor into a powerful generator without any
additional circuit.
Blender Motors are actually the universal Motors which are
capable of operating at both AC or DC inputs.
High power DC Motors are really difficult to find at home but
the Blender motors are easily available almost everywhere and
from that point of view, this project is of great importance.
Since they operate at high voltage therefore they also generate
high voltage of 200V to 300V.
Step 1: Requirements:
mobile charger/laptop charger
48 volts to 220 volts inverter
bulbs
1-Universal motor
jumper wires
bulb connectors
thread
Step 2: Connections:
The above Universal motor has four wires.Two wires both black in
colour are for the armature while the other two wires black and
red are for the field.
Now take a laptop charger and measure its output voltage with a
multimeter. I have used a 19 volts laptop charger though you can
use any voltage range from 5 volts which is for a mobile charger
to 20 volts which is usually for the laptop chargers.
Connect the two output wires from the laptop charger to the
field wires of the universal motor irrespective of the polarity.
Once you do that, the field winding gets activated.Now take an
inverter and connect it to the armature terminals of the
Universal motor.
To the output 220 volts or 110 volts side of the inverter,
connect the load bulb.
Now take the plastic thread and wound it around the shaft of the
Blender(universal) motor.
Step 3: Testing:
After your completed the previous steps, all you have to do is
hold the Universal motor with one hand and pull the plastic
thread as fast as you can with your other hand.
You should see your bulb glowing brightly.
The maximum voltage that i could achieve with the hand
generation test was 122.8V DC as can be seen in the picture.
The maximum power that it can generate should be 200W though it
depends a lot upon the mechanical rotation and the power fed to
the field.
To understand it better please watch the video here. *
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* At the following link you will find complete videos explaining
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