Home depots website is one of the worst, if not THE worst website for online browsing and searching. Recently I was searching for a ballast...

 Why is the statue in Bisbee called the "virile copper miner"? See for your self. I was told (back in college) that if you stood i...

How to un-hide or restore a media server (that you accidentally hid or removed) in windows media player windows 7. Open windows media player...

 13 Year Anniversary of this blog... Yay.

in 2017 I built a small 200 watt DC generator powered by an Echo GT-1000 string trimmer engine. Here is the playlist for that.   If you don...

When I attended Cochise college or as we called it "tumbleweed tech" back in the early to mid 80's the place was probably quit...

I have found these 2 things will give me a migraine either within a day or 2 of taking. Niacin within a couple of hours of taking 125mg of i...

The instructions for panelizing a board in EasyEDA are absolutely terrible and confusing, they lack any useful information.  In easyeda sele...

picked this up from goodwill today for very little as it did not power on. The reason it did not power on was that a small tab of copper ...

We purchased several Philips 800Lumens 8.5w 2700k LED light bulbs in January of 2017 from Ace Hardware the bulbs have a UL number of 3PM5. A...

Today the wife and Mother-in-law decided we should go out for a drive. We headed to the north scottsdale/Phoenix area. On the way back we he...

Watch this video of Louis Rossman's evaluation of the scare mongering campaign by LG regarding 18650 batteries #LithiumionBatteryCell...

Purchase a small bottle of orange scented anti bacterial dish soap, and a bottle of Angostura orange bitters. if the bottle of soap is compl...

Some are aware that the DVD (and later releases) of The Hobbit (Rankin Bass) have a problem. Sound effects are missing from key moments in t...

I have a Sony HDR-XR150 camcorder and up until recently the only way I had to get video off of the camera was using Sony's PMB (Picture ...

For several months or possibly years transfer rates from my QNAP nas TS-231 have been very slow about 12.5MBps to 15MBps (that's megabyt...

If you have an EnGenius Wireless Access Point wifi that stops working properly and has to be reset frequently this may solve your problem. Y...

Recently I happened across my BSA Red Dot  RD3022SB site which I had not used in many years. It was stuck in a drawer in my work room. I wen...

I have a 1989 Chevrolet c2500 that someone took out the original stereo and head unit and replaced it with (what I would describe as) the w...

Using a car battery and other stuff