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That was so relaxing to watch I almost fell asleep. Very little fascinates me more than electromechanical telephone switches.

They piped the dryer vent up through the roof in my aunts new house. 16' run but at least it's a straight shot and insulated in the attic. I have yet to check the cap on the roof to make sure it doesn't have a screen on it. They could've just as easily vented it down through the basement and out...

Hmmm. I’ve always been a little paranoid mine will start leaking from that tub cover due to the spin drain. Luckily that should be an easy fix but how annoying it took so long to track down.

I always loved cottage cheese, as a child I could easily have eaten a whole container of it in one sitting. Nowadays not so much since I shy away from most dairy due to various reactions with it. I tend to like pickles and chopped liver as well, two other things people either love or hate.

The Costa Rican pineapples are nasty. We found some from Mexico that were decent. My absolute favorite pineapples are the ones in Taiwan that taste like a Pina Colada.

Legends? How about something that actually happened. Back in the 1920s-50s there was a remote farm road just a couple miles from my house that was used as a dumping grounds for the Chicago mafia, plus people went there to commit suicide and some just died in accidents driving down it. They...

I went straight from A/C to heat...two weeks ago already. Heats been on ever since. Highs have been in the 50s with only one day making it into the 60s, and lows in the low 40s to low 30s. In a couple months this will feel like summer.

Honda’s and Hyundai’s have a very toxic smelling new car smell. It just burns my nose. I had to crack the window or leave the A/C on outside air for the first month or so every time I’d ride in my brothers new Civic. I liked Nissan’s new car smell but it fades fast and the cars start to get an...

This is the blade mine has, the ice crusher blade. From what I can tell, the second one is the Fusion blade, but it doesn’t specifically say so on their site. I’ll have to give it a try, along with a glass jar as I’ve already managed to scuff up the plastic jar this one originally came with.

For years I was using a Nutri Bullet for my vegetable smoothies in the morning, then I stayed with my sister for a bit and used her Vita Mix E310 and realized how much better of a job that thing does at blending. It tasted like I was drinking a creamy smoothie and not a cup of vegetable pulp...

As long as I have arms, hands and fingers I’ll stick to pressing the damn buttons.

No experience personally, but Chicago used to be all heated with coal like any other city at the time. Instead of progressing to oil, they progressed straight to NG starting in the 1930s AFAIK. I honestly don’t fully understand why one would go to oil when NG was already available, like was done...

Thankfully iPhones are not getting thinner anymore, they've been progressively getting thicker since the iP6S. I have an 8+ and it's a pretty big phone, about the same footprint as the new XS Max. I've managed to avoid doing anything to it, I take it on hikes, bike rides etc.    I couldn't...

I have a lifetimes worth of incandescent bulbs stockpiled in the basement. I use LED’s where light quality is no concern, nor precise dimming is required. My bathroom is all incandescent because the dimmer on the ceiling fixture goes batty if I try to use LED’s, and the light bar style LED bulbs...

I’ve always wanted to see a crossbar switch in action, but alas I was born a bit too late to catch those. I’ve spoken to a telephone hobbyist who put together his own SxS CO out of telco CO’s taken out of service, he even had a working number to dial into at some point to hear the sounds of the...

I’m pretty sure the issue you’re experiencing is that they tend to install the PTAC leaving the default settings which is to let the blower run continuously which makes the room really clammy when the compressor is off. Every room I stay in I pull the plastic cover off (it 97% of the time just...

I’ve always liked her but only ever really knew her stuff from the 60s. I didn’t realize she also had stuff like the album this song is from. May she live on forever through her wonderful music. http://https//open.spotify.com/track/1boSKyLHKESJOVUKFNyVzr?si=COvBQF5MRa6ULzSm4Tml3g

<div>My Nissan has a variable capacity swash plate compressor made by Valeo. It only cycles when it's below 50º outside. It'll run even when it's below freezing outside. </div>

I watched the 4 videos of you restoring the compressor and will watch the rest as soon as I can. I’m very impressed with your work and creativity and it makes me so happy to see something of this age get restored and put back into service in like-new condition. It always amazes me how...

I have a portable Friedrich that’s dual hose. Oddly, it has an intake for the condenser side that doesn’t get sealed off when attaching the intake hose. I had to tape over that grille to make it truly pull in air through the hose. I thought maybe they did that cuz it might not work right...