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Homebody Handy hints
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 8, 2022, 11:59 am
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[center]13 Surprising Uses for Dental Floss Around the House.
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/>1. Fix a Noisy Faucet. Can’t stand that noisy faucet? For a
quick fix, tie floss around the spout so that it hangs down into
the sink. Instead of nosily plopping on the bowl of the sink,
the water will just crawl down the floss.
2. Hang Pictures. Sturdy dental floss is a great alternative to
regular string or wire when it comes to hanging pictures.
3. Remove Stuck-On Photos. Don’t risk damaging your priceless
photos. To remove photos that are stuck into albums, use a piece
of floss to slowly coax them out.
4. Prevent Rope From Fraying. This is an old Boy Scout’s trick:
to “whip” a rope, or prevent it from fraying, tightly loop the
floss around the rope. Detailed instructions can be found here.
5. Give Plants Some Support. Climbing plants often need a little
support. That’s where dental floss comes in — it’s a great
material for tying plants to a trellis.
Earlier: Making European-Style Butter at Home is Surprisingly
Easy
Food.
6. Slice Cake, Cheesecake and Cinnamon Rolls. Cut your cakes
with magazine photo-perfect precision by using an unwaxed and
unflavored piece of floss.
7. Precisely Slice Soft Cheese.
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cheese
than a fancy cheese knife.
8. Lift Cookies off a Baking Tray. To transfer your still-warm
cookies to a plate without them crumbling, carefully work a
piece of floss under the cookie and painlessly lift them off.
9. Use as Kitchen Twine. Unflavored and unwaxed dental floss is
a perfectly fine replacement for kitchen twine.
See Also: 4 Ways to Extend the Life of Green Onions
Fashion.
10. Re-String Broken Jewelry. Because it’s just so sturdy,
dental floss is a really great substitute for jewelry string or
wire.
11. Sew Better. Floss is a much sturdier fiber than thread is.
So, if you really want your button to stay firmly in place, a
little floss will really do the trick. It’s not just buttons,
either, floss can easily repair tents, backpacks, and other
heavy-duty outdoor stuff.
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12. Fix a Broken Umbrella. Don’t throw out that broken umbrella
— fix it with floss! You don’t even need to sew anything (though
that certainly would help) to fix it: simply tying the metal
spines and the material together will work well, too.
13. Remove a Too-Tight Ring. It got on your finger, but how are
you going to get it off?! Well, one good method is to tightly
wrap your finger in floss, and then slip the ring right off.
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What Happens If You Put A Giant Propeller On A Bike?
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: May 8, 2022, 12:03 pm
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[center]What Happens If You Put A Giant Propeller On A
Bike?[/center]
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Fireball Tool 775K subscribers
I dive into my old collection of Popular Mechanics magazines and
get inspired to build something! I found Ernest Winter’s air
screw bicycle, so I tried to build it. He claims it is able to
hit 20 miles per hour, will I be able to match his speed? How
will I build the propeller? How can I power it with my feet?
Will it go fast enough to fly? How does it compare to a giant
fan? I go on the journey to test it and more!
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Backyard Garden Shed Built With Salvaged Materials
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 14, 2022, 3:38 pm
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[center]Backyard Garden Shed Built With Salvaged Materials
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By falkconstructionmadison
About: Woodworker, gardener, retired engineer
SNIPPET:
As an avid gardener, I’ve always wanted a dedicated space to
store garden tools and supplies. Not content with the prefab
sheds found at the big box stores, I decided that I could build
one myself with more architectural appeal and that would fit
more naturally into my backyard garden space. This 11x18 garden
shed is the result. To save money (and to reduce my carbon
footprint), I try to use reclaimed and salvaged materials in my
home building projects. This garden shed is a perfect example of
that. While not built 100% from salvaged materials, the design
evolved around the use of some vintage windows and doors I
salvaged from a 1920’s home that was being torn down. It also
incorporates salvaged plywood as well as a tin roof reclaimed
from an old barn.
Full instructions with step by step pictures and explanations:
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Good Info about tool brands
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: August 18, 2022, 2:38 pm
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> rick m
> Aug 17, 2022 at 9:04 pm
> Every tool brand you’re likely to see in an orange or blue
building box store originates with a tool group that owns or
licences the well-known names. Techtronics (TTI) LTD of Hong
Kong owns Milwaukee Electric Tool Co, which sells more cordless
tools in North America than anyone else as of 2016. They are not
made in Milwaukee.
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> They also license the Ryobi name and make badged Ryobi tools
sold exclusively at Home Depot.
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> They also license the Ridgid name from Emerson Electric, and
make all those orange Ridgid tools, also exclusively for HD.
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> Ridgid “red” tools are made by a subsidiary of Emerson for the
professional plumbing and electrical/HVAC trades, and are sold
at wholesale supply houses.
>
> Hilti and Makita are about the only independent power tool
makers that cater to general contractors. Not for sale at Lowes
or home Depot. A vendor has to jump through purchasing hoops to
get shelf in those stores.
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> Quality in general has taken a beating. Three TOTL DeWalt
(owned by Stanley Black and Decker, as is Craftsman) power miter
boxes are being recalled because the blade safety guard can fly
off and hit the operator. Now the safety features are out to get
you.
>
> Digger Dave
> Aug 18, 2022 at 6:04 am
> Harbor Freight has a place.
>
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> When you need a throw away tool or you’ve forgotten something
on a job site and the HF is closer than where the real tool got
left.
>
> Most contractors in my area use DeWalt or Milwaukee. I used to
run Makita way back when they were battery tool pioneers. Now
they’re too hard to find, so it’s Dewalt now with a few
specially Milwaukee tools that just work better than anything
DeWalt makes.
>
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> Makita is great for a general contractor but not enough
specialty tools for most trades. I know some finish carpenters
that use Festool.
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> I actually have some Ryobi tools too – nothing I would really
bring on a job, mostly around the house tools that get used too
infrequently to justify quality ones.
>
> The general hardware quality at HD is what is just awful now.
>
> rick m
> Aug 18, 2022 at 8:29 am
> I’ve noticed bad steel in fasteners of all sorts. Heads that
twist off of screws too easily, finish nails you can’t drive
into old wood at all, etc. They’ve lost interest in what
builders think of them and their products because they’re too
busy chasing market share and pleasing the financial types
instead. The fit and finish of their hardware is mediocre. I
miss real hardware stores, we had the world’s best. Now we have
Nailmart.
>
> robert
> Aug 18, 2022 at 10:26 am
> rick m,
> I used to buy literally billions of fasteners, made in North
America. Then years ago all the suppliers started sourcing from
the Orient. Over there the idea is that in manufacturing, you
screw the fastener in once, on the assembly line, with the force
set just right. Whether for local use or export there was no
difference in quality.
>
> I used to buy injection molds and dies from over there too; at
that time they asked you if you wanted ‘Hong Kong’ grade or
American grade. The difference of course was if you had to run
an HK grade mold or tool over here it would squash in the
machine unless you had ‘the touch’.
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Is 50% Relative Humidity The Right Amount?
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DIR By: AGelbert
Date: October 14, 2024, 3:41 pm
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[move]🦉 A gentleman would rescue a man trapped in a
well, but he would not jump in himself. He is not perfect, but
he is not stupid, either. – Confucius, Spring and Autumn
Period[/move]
October 14, 2024
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[center]Is [glow=blue,2,300]50% Relative Humidity[/glow] The
[glow=green,2,300]Right[/glow] Amount?
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The Harvard School of Public Health is recommending that we
maintain interior relative humidity between 40 and 60 percent
during the winter
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this, just the building science basis for this: Relative
humidities this 😕 high in houses are going to be a
killer 👀 in cold places where we have winter. Yes, bad
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