One man's life
My orbital sander (Parkside PAEXS 20-Li B2) stopped working without any signs of an electrical short or a mechanical malfunction. Here’s how I got it working again, by simply spraying a bit of contact cleaner directly into the power switch, which had gotten clogged up with small dust particles. I realize that in this case, […]
I have á Stihl FS 94 C string trimmer which has been working very well for the past 8-9 years that I’ve had it. I’d been having issues when starting the trimmer because it required more pulls than usual, and I didn’t know what was causing the problem until I investigated more closely. It turned […]
I’ve recently had to deal with a plumbing issue at our country house: the cold water pressure was very low. As it turned out, the bladder (or diaphragm) inside the well pump expansion tank had burst. I replaced the entire pump assembly with a spare one. I then decided to install a Y filter after […]
This marks (the end of?) a particularly prolonged pause in my posts. No guarantee of timely future posts though. I’ve been busy with other projects. I was tempted to set an AI-generated featured image for this post. It’s getting so good it makes me feel superfluous. These three are my own photographs, for what it’s […]
While working on a project, I accidentally cut through the power cord of my Makita planer with its own blade. This is how I fixed it.
After more than a year’s pause and in answer to your requests for a new video on the subjects discussed previously in the playlist entitled “A Guide to a Good Life“, here is a new video. (Note: this post is published with a backdate that corresponds with the video’s publish date of 7/15/24, but it’s […]
Here’s the 21st episode of our talk show, De Vorba cu Ligia. In this episode, we talk about our current personal and professional endeavors after a hiatus in the show’s episodes, and we give an update on Raw Vegan Mall, our online store where we list quality products from our partner stores in Romania. Enjoy! […]
I tried to keep this as simple as I could. I did not oversimplify it. All of the ingredients are there, the main one being “nature”. But I wanted the message to be easily understood by those who needed to hear it.
Here’s a new video for my playlist entitled “Thoughts on Current Affairs“. It’s an admittedly dim view of the world, perhaps for the right reasons. I offer clarifications on extra-terrestrials (spoiler alert, I think they’re bullshit), on where we are and where we might be headed. The take-away message here is that none of us […]
Wouldn’t it be interesting if camera sensors could see more of the light spectrum than our eyes could see? It would open up whole new worlds to our eyes, worlds that have been heretofore unseen and unexplored, and yet they’ve been right under our noses all along.