swishercutter

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by swishercutter 15y ago
Good work. You should do an instructable if you have not already. People who share their work make the internet (and the world) great. Always remember your maker rules: http://wondermark.com/tink8/
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by swishercutter 15y ago
A trick I sometimes use on cars is that when you take each part off you put all the bolts in a ziploc and mark it, then put the bags in series in a cardboard box or whatever...then you just take each bag out of the box in reverse during ass
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by swishercutter 15y ago
Nice, we had a 2 year old range stop working in our condo...it wouldn't heat. So since we were upgrading appliances one at a time that was obviously next (it sucked anyways). So I traced the problem back to the control board...$500+ online
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by swishercutter 15y ago
He could have found the same SMT diode as he was replacing had he tried...he rigged it because it was the same part (electrically) just a Through-hole part. Just because a device is "dense" or heavily populated does not mean it cannot be re
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by swishercutter 15y ago
My electronics instructor still uses his amplifier from the 70's because he can rebuild it with common parts...nowadays if an amplifier section breaks chances are that it is a chip which may or may not be available (many manufacturers keep
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by swishercutter 15y ago
Always remember the Maker rule..."If it is broken it is fair game..". Open it up, do your best, if you don't fix it but you learn something then its time well spent. If you are like me you also salvage as many parts from what cannot be (or
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by swishercutter 15y ago
The tools are there for the properly motivated like they have never been in our entire history. The internet and social networking have made it so there is a forum for every trade, interest, or fetish. It is time to use it for more than j
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by swishercutter 15y ago
I believe that the main problem is we have spent the last 20 years "training our replacements" (i.e. selling off semiconductor tech, outsourcing) and not enough time training our children. Maybe if we spent a bit more time teaching our chi
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by swishercutter 15y ago
You just need a diagram...I replaced all the wiring on a 1993 Mazda 626 from the front bumper to the dash. 4 big looms. If you have the "real" shop manual tracing problems is easy...not the Haynes or Chiltons (I have the original shop man
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by swishercutter 15y ago
"I mean, most of my experience is working on fuel-injected stuff... but have you ever tried to rebuild a carb? it's damn difficult to get right, and there's no computer telling you when it's correct; you have to essentially guess." I tell m
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by swishercutter 15y ago
Working on sourcing parts for Reprap's and I was shocked to find out that the metalworkers in the area had to convert all my numbers to standard. In electronics manufacturing we used whatever the print had so I just assumed everyone did.