My Washing Machine

My appliances are twelve years old.

Sooner or later I will have to replace them.

I told you about my clothes dryer over

here.

Before starting work, I unplugged the washing machine's power.

Here is a look at the Clothes Washing Machine's Innards:

 

The Large Gray item is connected to the knob on the

front of it's control panel, which no longer worked.

The Large Gray item is the Controller.

 

As you can see, the Controller has a motor to make the knob spin

(green arrow) while the washing machine is washing my clothes.

Two plastic tabs are holding this side of the controller

Onto the front panel (red arrows).

No problem here!

I added some plastic friendly lubricant "Tri-Flow"

to the part that spins with the knob (blue arrow).

This lubrication helped a lot.
 

But then

on the other side of the Controller

there was only one plastic tab, which had broken off.

The Controller would sag back and then the knob

wouldn't be pushed in and the wash cycle wouldn't start.

Rather than run out to the hardware store,

I found these hard rubber items which are actually

shower door bumpers.

I cut down the hook on one of these bumpers

Very carefully.

 

I held the item with pliers as shown, while trimming the part.

Not with my fingers.

The trimmed piece grabs on to the Controller.

After rummaging through my supplies I found a bolt and, ahem, washer

that would hold the rubber bumper down securely

Then I put some strong, hold-it-to-everything glue

in-between the rubber bumper and the controller..

 

 

After being heated with an incandescent light bulb for about twenty minutes,

the glue foams up a little bit to fill the space (not shown).

Now the Controller is secured to the front panel,

the knob can be pushed in or pulled out

and I am back in the laundry business.

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My Start Screen 2

   My computer seems to take a long time when starting up the Internet Explorer. I have 
              been trying to find a way to speed things up as I told you about over here.

       For some reason I came to wonder if the start screen could be a dot htm file that
   exists on my computer. If so, this html file will load super fast. Today, while I was using
        a help screen, I beheld a dot htm file that exists on my computer. Yowza. Here is a
                               screen shot of how I set up my Start Screen 2.

 We can learn from this example that percent twenty represents a space bar character.

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My Road Trip

                              I have recently visited Maine on a road trip.
            The last leg of my airplane ride was in a small two engine airplane.
                I was proud to see that the pilot and copilot were both women.
                           There aren't enough female pilots in the world.
                         After the plane ride there was a long drive North.
               Technically the season is Autumn so I was expecting a little cold.
                                                   Good morning!

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                                 This rental car turned out to be a good car.
                     Car stayed on the road and didn't get stuch in a parking lot,
                              which is impressive given the road conditions.
                The car is a nice blue color though hidden beneath a pile of snow,
                                                       it is a Buick Verano.

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                           Next morning, car was covered in ice instead of snow.
                              Gasoline prices are about the same, there or here.

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                               For awhile I had the interstate highway all to myself.
             As I proceeded south, frozen rivers and ponds gave way to open water.

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                                         After another short ride in the tiny airplane
                                                 and a long ride in the big airplane
                               I finally arrived at home to find this spider in my kitchen.

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My Lamp

                                     I have a hanging lamp in the living room of my house.
                                      The lamp looks OK from a grownup point of view.
                                              If the viewer is tall, the lamp looks fine.

                         However, a little kid on the floor can look up and see the bare lamp bulb.

                                The bare bulb throws a lot of glare when the lamp is turned on.
                             To remedy the situation I added a lens bowl from another lamp.

                                      I drilled three, one-eighth inch holes equally spaced

                                                     around the rim of the lens bowl.

 

                      The lens bowl is threaded with some wire that has high temperature insulation.

                                     These three wires will support the hanging lamp bowl.

                                          The hanging lamp has some vents for cooling.

                                        The three wires are bent into the shape of hooks,

                                                   threaded through the cooling vents,

                                      and bent into place to support the added lamp bowl.

                                                 The resulting lamp is much better.

                                          The light quality lights up the darkness well, too.

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My Scenery

                            Scenery doesn't look like much because of the drought.
                         Drab browns and grays are the palette colors instead of green.

                                        The pile of dirt with a tractor on top is new.

 

                   Compare that picture with this one and see how much they can do in a week.
                                               This picture is from one week later.

My Candy

                                                     This candy is good.
                                   You probably can't find any of these where you are.

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My Start Screen

This page will be my new start screen. Has text only. Pictures take forever to load during start up.

                                                                           Have to fix it myself.