About a year ago my UPS exploded after the power FETs decided to go short circuit and unsolder themselves from the board. My attempts at repair failed, so I pulled it apart. One thing I was left with was the power distribution panel. It was a clip-in module and I […]
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Changing the Clothesline
Well, Chris and Mum thought it might be a good idea to get a new clothesline, since the old one was pretty knackered. I finally got around to taking another trailer load of rubbish to the tip and came home with a new clothesline from Bunnings. Of course the trick […]
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Adding the Rail
So I added a rail. Mum wanted a rail. I figured I’d need to make up some posts with flat bases that could be bolted to the floor, with some kind of handrail attached. I’d already had a mosey around the metal section at Bunnings and a poke through the […]
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Changing the Ramp
Ever since Mum got out of hospital I’ve noticed that the transition from the garage floor to the ramp was really not very safe. The way the ramp went out from the door into the house straight down to the garage floor meant that Mum was having to navigate around […]
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Fixed me Window
I don’t need to explain what is going on here do I? No I didn’t think so. But for context, I’ve been having trouble closing the bedroom window. I imagined it was something in the mechanism was stuffing up. Finally I got sick of it and pulled the winder off. […]
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This Was Difficult
When Mum went into hospital and it was looking like we’d need to shuffle furniture around, she asked me to put the sofa in my room up for sale and move her recliner there in its place. I did that and immediately found the room was half empty. Plus, the […]
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New 3D Printer
On our way back from Perth, Chris asked me about 3D printers. I haven’t kept up on the 3D printer market, but he said he wanted to try and make some historical Cornish fishing vessels for his railway modelling. My existing 3D printer is a clone of the Makerbot 2 […]
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Outdoor Bench
After my employer decided to sell the property in August or whenever, they asked me to pull down the fence along the roadside. It was actually a pretty easy job, besides the manual aspect of moving all that timber, because a lot of it had already fallen over and the […]
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Charging Station
For a while, Chris has been worried about lithium ion batteries suddenly going up in smoke and setting fire to everything. Now, the risk is real but there’s probably not a lot we can do about it since there are so many items in the house with Li Ion batteries, […]