What have you fixed lately?
08-12-2016, 19:22
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
I use a separate RCD when I use appliances outdoors like the flymo. I *aught* to upgrade the main panel but it's not a priority.
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09-12-2016, 19:07
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Finally I've located the source of a memory leak under one of the service host instances on this Windows 10 machine.
Turned out it was that steaming pile of dog excrement called Killer Network Manager and the useless bandwidth filter which it installs. GRRRR!
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19-12-2016, 17:43
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
My reading glasses. One of the plastic arms had broken quite neatly so I drilled tiny holes in each piece to receive a fine metal rod to bridge the break and glued the whole thing together using epoxy glue. Time will tell how well it works.
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29-12-2016, 14:23
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My Braun series one electric razor. I prefer it to the series 3 but recently it's shave had become uncomfortable snagging the odd hair and also making a funny buzzing sound so I thought it was time to investigate.
Seems to come down to lost motion in a number of places:
First the cutter was moving slightly on the carrier, using another cutter block cured that.
Then the pivot of the carrier was worn but a canabalised old series 3 unit that had already donated its motor several years ago had an almost identical carrier with no play so that was duly swapped over.
Then I saw that the foil seemed to be loose in the cap and was shifting contributing to more lost motion. I transferred the foil to another cap which was snug fitting. Shows the value of retaining some bits and bobs when fitting new parts that are often poor Chinese copies.
A quick trial confirmed that the smooth cut was back with no snagging. I've had 4 electric razors over the years but this simple foil Braun 1508 has the best shave of all of them.
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29-12-2016, 18:09
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Good job mate. Got any thoughts about this?
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...php?t=33704199
I'm perplexed by why it will only start after it's been plugged in for a while.
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29-12-2016, 18:26
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
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Yeah, I saw your posting. You need to find out if the motor is powered through some kind of power supply that reduces the voltage. I guess that's where the trouble lies but unless you have the right kit it may be difficult to find the problem. Probably some kind of dry joint that makes contact after a while as the unit heats up internally.
Seem to have a similar problem with an LED filament bulb at the moment.
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27-01-2017, 13:10
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Cartridge chip resetter had stopped resetting genuine Epson carts. Still worked on clones. Batteries seemed low.
Cleaned up the battery holders, bit of contact cleaner spray and a new set of 3 batteries and it works a treat now.
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27-01-2017, 15:56
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Heero You are such a clever bloke I could do with you here to fix several minor jobs
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28-01-2017, 11:39
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
Replaced the bulb in my porch light
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02-02-2017, 08:34
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
New CR2032 coin cell in the PC and it now remembers the date, time and boot sequence.
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02-02-2017, 10:49
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
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New CR2032 coin cell in the PC and it now remembers the date, time and boot sequence.
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Did you lose any of the settings and if so, how did you get round that?
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02-02-2017, 10:55
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
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Did you lose any of the settings and if so, how did you get round that?
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Anything you lose because battery is flat/replaced you get round by entering the BIOS prior to boot up and setting there, then they'll 'stick'
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02-02-2017, 11:29
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Did you lose any of the settings and if so, how did you get round that?
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You get a few seconds "grace" so long as you're quick. The CMOS did keep the settings and the clock is still right.
I did go into the BIOS first thing (It's the <del> key during POST on this machine) to check the boot sequence was correct. Most of the rest of things are at the defaults anyway.
The quirk on this system is that HDD channel 0 (first IDE) slave is the CD drive, channel #2 master (first SATA) is my data drive and channel #3 master (second SATA) is the SSD boot drive. I left it like that after transferring the installed OS and apps from an original IDE drive in channel 0 master.
This is why when the CMOS defaulted it went for the first drive it could find (#2) and failed to boot from it.
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02-02-2017, 11:30
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Re: What have you fixed lately?
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Anything you lose because battery is flat/replaced you get round by entering the BIOS prior to boot up and setting there, then they'll 'stick'
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Thanks but how would you know what to enter into the bios to get things back to where they were?
TIA
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02-02-2017, 11:36
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Thanks but how would you know what to enter into the bios to get things back to where they were?
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Most of the CMOS defaults are correct for a standard build system. The memory cards have a small flash RAM on them that gives the BIOS the correct settings. Unless you've had cause to change BIOS settings, like I did with the boot priorities, they'll be at the default most likely.
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