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Has Achieved Nirvana |
What did we do without these? In the past few years I have been able to fix a number of things I would have had no idea how to fix before: Clothes dryer with scraping noise Washing machine with rust pieces falling in with clothes Turn signal flasher in my truck (it's not as easy as it used to be - Ford dealer wanted $100s) Air conditioner in my truck (repair shop also wanted $100's) Garage door opener. Smog device check engine light in my car Printer Dishwasher What have you fixed lately?
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VW tail lights - VWs are always tricky... Dishwasher clog And not in the 'fix' category, but it is so easy to practice choral songs now with almost every song somewhere online!
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Washing machine that wouldn't spin (broken plastic gear) Car battery draining repeatedly (dealer diagnosed bad battery and then bad cables but he was wrong, kept happening). Not a YouTube video, but a mechanic who ran into the same problem on our model car and wrote it up in a blog. Brush and clutch on our Dyson vacuum cleaner Thermostat in our upright freezer Replaced flails in our chipper
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Automatic garage door opener ... readjusted the start/stop threshold. One refrigerator’s water dispenser. Toilet tank leak ... had to change a rubber ring of some sort. Various computer stuff. Pretty sure that are lots more I don’t remember.
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Kitchen sink sprayer that wouldn’t spray. Leaking sunroof in a Ford Taurus (cleared clogged drains). How to remove the hose on a Dyson upright vac. It wasn’t obvious, but after watching the vid, it took less than five seconds. Getting ready to do the brake rotors on my Subaru. My only concern is if I have a frozen caliper, that would be a little outside my skill set to fix it rather than replace it.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
I forgot to say that I replaced the lower ball joints on my Toyota - a much larger job than I would ever have tackled before. It didn't go all that well but I was able to get it done. It would have been way over my head without the videos. It helps if you don't need to drive the car right away.
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Head light replacement on a Prius Replace a tall flag pole's rope (for my neighbor) Sharpening the push mower Fixing set of shorted outdoor string lights
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| Foregoing Practicing to Post Minor Deity  |
Pretty sure I've used them for repairing bits on my bicycle, but can't remember exactly what. When my 50-year-old hand-cranked coffee grinder was moving jerkily, I found a video about how to take it apart and clean it. It was easy, and I think the burrs had gotten misaligned. If I wanted, there was another video about how to take it all apart and professionally repaint it. Recently our microwave oven door refuses to open. There are videos about that, but it may beyond my skill level to fix.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Cleaning the trap in my dishwasher (eeeeew) Replacing the filters in my fridge There are a LOT of youtubes out there for things I look up, like how to set up a specific statistical analysis in R, or SPSS or whatever. But unfortunately I find these to often be made by total gasbags who take a 5-minute tutorial and make it a 20 minute reflection on the state of statistics in general. Super frustrating! | |||
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
Yes!! I find this a lot with Excel stuff, Qualtrics, and the qual. software I use (NVivo). There's a lot of basic stuff, but usually I can't find the answer to my specific question and then I get angry because my uni's tech support doesn't have advanced software training options. 
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| Serial origamist Has Achieved Nirvana |
I did once find a yootoob vid on how to finish a certain level in Angry Birds.
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