What have you fixed lately?
10-09-2013, 21:14
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Fixed a Zanussi washer/dryer for a neighbour.
it does a diagnostic check when turned on, and because the heater element has gone faulty it won't even let you do a normal wash.
disconnect the wires to the element and it all works as normal.
apart from the dryer, which she never used anyway.
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10-09-2013, 21:25
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
What have you fixed lately
My pregnant girl friend, with a coat hanger
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11-09-2013, 18:19
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
The cooker hood / extractor:
The plastic lens where the light is has disintegrated so I had a rummage about in the garage and found some acrylic sheet offcuts. Managed to cut a new lens that fits inside the aperture from the inside and stops the lamp falling out. Good thing I hang onto odd and sods.
I hope it can stand the heat but fixed for now.
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Odds and sods are what garages are for...
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11-09-2013, 21:28
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
This week so far
1 hp laptop (why does no one back up their files)
1 nokia lumia 800 (why does my son not back up stuff before phone runs out of space and refuses to boot lol)
1 pram wheel
1 xbox 360 tray
1 air pistol (got it cheap as they had jammed it)
got a laptop and a ebook screen to fix next (one day i will start charging for it for now i just require coffee on tap )
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12-09-2013, 14:38
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
An elderly neighbour's Large LCD TV was rattling like mad on all but minimal volume settings. I tightened some very loose screws holding the back panel on... sorted!
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12-09-2013, 14:54
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Well done guys! I just love those simple fixes which make such a lot of difference and little or nothing.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Fortunately I can still find the car when I need to.
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Can't recall the last time a car of ours was in the garage and that's saying something as it's over 26feet long and 10ft wide. So many things being saved for that rainy day...
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12-09-2013, 15:22
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
At work: Loads of things..
Because of the amount of computers we use, we have special deployment systems to install OSes and Software on them.
My responsibility is the Macintoshes we have. I won't go into details, but one of the packages I am responsible for is Autodesk Maya. This would install via the system but would not activate with our licence server. Tried everything I could. I eventually found that it needed to be "registered" on the system it was running on, and the program used for "registration" was actually being run in a script that was running before the program was installed. Not sure how that happened, but I flipped it around and Maya works now.
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12-09-2013, 22:39
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Don't you just love it when you fix something!
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12-09-2013, 22:55
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Osem
Can't recall the last time a car of ours was in the garage and that's saying something as it's over 26feet long and 10ft wide.
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Isn't that the average size?
what you got? a Mini?
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16-09-2013, 20:15
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Another sodding puncture in my bike tyre. Four in a month.
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20-09-2013, 15:59
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
My reading glasses - one of the lenses fell out but it's now carefully stuck back in place with super glue.
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20-09-2013, 21:45
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Fixed the toaster which was causing the trip to switch. Plumbed in a dishwasher and made a temporary fix for a loo at work to stop it filling until the repair guy came.
Also mended the lid on the coffee jug and will no doubt be repairing or replacing the front inner tubes on my daughters and husbands bikes.
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20-09-2013, 22:09
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Can you pop around here when you have a mo?....
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03-10-2013, 16:43
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Well done that man! I really should learn how to do some of this tecchie stuff.
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03-10-2013, 16:44
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
fixed up my old weight bench
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