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Geekery • Re: Changing Your Assurance Wireless Phone.

2014-01-16T19:07:21+00:00

if you call assurance they will give you a list of phones that will work.Or they"ll tell you where on line to look. I lost mine.When i called the guy gave me such a list I had to ask where can i look cause it was to much.I don"t know about smart phones and why not let us have one.My concern was I didn"t want to walk around with a assurance phone.I had to get a Go-Lo because I actually got the last one.It costed me 50 bucks and it"s all silver so it looks like metal.What sucks is no wifi.with my other phones,I down load majic jack and I have a small clear hotspot device.Tape them together(no one notices) and when desperate I'll use that.And don't fall for the magic jack stuff about someone else also has to have the magic jack. I dial directly to anyone I want.BUTTTT! the strangested thing is some people get thier own number like on a caller ID.Some people get a different number everytime,But like I said when desperate use it.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — 16 Jan 2014, 19:07

Geekery • Re: Diy - When Your A/C Won't Stop or Start / Contactor Repa

2014-01-15T10:32:47+00:00

Hi I'm having an ac problem, the unit doesn't start at all unless I manually hold the contacts in then it runs, but as soon as I let go, it turns off. thanks

Statistics: Posted by Guest — 15 Jan 2014, 10:32

Geekery • Re: How to fix a broken toilet closet flange & rotted floor

2013-12-30T17:45:05+00:00

I can say that I've never understood the carpet in the bathroom thing.

Statistics: Posted by Liv — 30 Dec 2013, 17:45

Geekery • Re: How to fix a broken toilet closet flange & rotted floor

2013-12-30T07:12:16+00:00

Hi! This was the best all around advice I've found, but I had a crumbling concrete floor. I brushed away as much as I could and bleach cleaned it all. I bought hydraulic epoxy cement to fill in the holes and even out all the spaces. I have a white plastic 3" flange that was weld glued to the pipe and the areas broken were where the bolts go. I didn't want to wreck my pipe and removed its screws to set the Moss Bay Flange because the was nothing to connect the partial flanges to. Then I re-screws it to the base flange. I added some more cement to fill around the hole and the flanges. I let it dry overnight, and I placed one sani sealer and mounted the toilet, I added a shim in back to steady it. I tested it and I had three leaks...I replaced the rusted out tank bolts and the valve hose. The movement of moving the toilet made them leak. Apparently adding the shim went a little under the sani sewer and that leaked.
The new flange also made the ring surface uneven and I had caulked some latent crumbling on the back left side. I mounted two sani sealers and remounted the toilet. I added a double shim backwards out so as not to disturb the sani seals and one shim on the other side as well. To properly fasten the toilet I had ended up with an uneven screw set , one deeper than the other and used a level to make sure the toilet lay evenly when it was screwed down. I cleaned the carpeting around it, and let it dry. It seems to be bone dry now and my toilet doesn't rock. The beauty of the shims is that you can utility knife cut them flush (no pun intended) if you don't have carpeting. I am waiting a couple weeks to trim the screw bolts so everything is set and caulked around the base for finished and waterproof look. I would recommend two sani sealers even if you think you don't need them, but, really, you do and you never have to buy or clean away another wax ring, just in case something else happens. Thank you for helping fix my toilet.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — 30 Dec 2013, 07:12

Geekery • Re: Antenna instead of Cable -Doing it right (DB8 Install)

2013-12-24T03:57:00+00:00

A tip I just discovered tonight that improved reception on our living room TV: 3 ways splitters have different resistance on different ports. I put the main TV on the port closest to the IN, (e.g. the left port; No. 1), and hooked the kids on to the other ports. Definitely improved reception for our living room TV.

Statistics: Posted by Liv — 24 Dec 2013, 03:57

Geekery • Re: ITP - Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura - Destined to

2013-12-20T13:18:42+00:00

I'm so sorry for this family. I understand all too well about ITP as it was responsible for taking my brother's life at only 17 years old back in 1974. My family thought he had the flu on wednesday and by Saturday we had to take him to the hospital and at noon on Sunday he was gone. I was eleven years old and it happened on December 15th, his funeral was December 18th. You never totally get over the loss of a loved one, you just try and cope the best you can with it.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — 20 Dec 2013, 13:18

Geekery • Re: How to replace the dashboard bulbs in a Subaru

2013-12-18T21:42:47+00:00

If you've lost all the illumination lights in the dashboard it could be either fuse or dimmer related. There isn't a relay for the dashboard lights.

This diagram shows the fuses and connections you need to check (#12 is the most likely suspect)

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Statistics: Posted by A Person — 18 Dec 2013, 21:42

Geekery • Re: How to replace the dashboard bulbs in a Subaru

2013-12-17T08:08:20+00:00

All the dashboard lights went out at once on our 2001 Outback, just after my wife took it to be cleaned.

Yes, there is a dimmer for the dashboard lights. And yes, it is capable of turning them completely off. It's on the same stalk with the headlight switch.

Statistics: Posted by Guest — 17 Dec 2013, 08:08

Geekery • Re: Diy - When Your A/C Won't Stop or Start / Contactor Repa

2013-12-09T01:50:53+00:00

hvac tech wrote:
but you are full of crap

Please feel free to point out any errors. Or would that violate the inner secrets of HVAC University?

Statistics: Posted by A Person — 09 Dec 2013, 01:50

Geekery • Re: Money = Education

2013-12-08T09:25:22+00:00

Liv wrote:
Ouch, that hurts.

I know... I'm sorry, but I figured that coming from a friend, it might not be seen as a comment on your worth as a person. There much to love and respect about you, Liv. And your ability to use the English language doesn't affect that in my mind.

I will graduate with a B.A. International Global Studies, and a double minor in Theatre, and French.

I'm considering my options in a M.A.... from screen-writing, communications, international affairs or politics. Technically I'm open to anything, but it's a combination of money, logistics, and my ability to get into the program.

Interesting. Well if you ever make it to success, just keep in mind you MIGHT want a decent writer on your staff one day. Give me a call if you get to that point, eh?

Statistics: Posted by SouthernFriedInfidel — 08 Dec 2013, 09:25