Personal computing discussed
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Waco wrote:I helped a friend assemble 2 working jet skis from 3 used jet skis purchased on E-bay. They were 80HP; I don't know if that's high or low, but so much fun to ride.The wife put her jet ski back together today (she tore it bare yo paint the hull) and fired it up for the first time! It was a Craiglist rescue we weren't sure would even run.
Mine, on the other hand (also s Craigslist steal), has the motor out and completely torn apart to redo seals. Rebuilt the carb too. With any luck the engine will be firing up tomorrow and ready to ride Sunday!
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Your "temporary fix" is cleaner than my permanent fixes normally are.
Usacomp2k3 wrote:Owning and running a lab is just a blast. This July I made my final payments on the loans for my business. I now own it all outright. I still have a loan on the building.Had to google what that was. I'm jealous. My parents had a good friend who worked for Agilent as a senior technical support. That's some complicated stuff!
Mr Bill wrote:This weekend, the drain on the tub broke at the linkage. Lost count of how many toilets and swamp coolers I've fixed. But, I've never worked on a tub drain before. The face plate drain link had broken. She showed me how you fish out the little cylinder and linkages. I was surprised how simple this was to repair. Just a new face plate and cotter pin kit and we had a working drain again. That drain has been partly broken for at least 20 years because you had to put a weight on the end of the lever to get the tub to drain. If I had realized how dead simple it would be to fix.... Ah, the wasted time.
TechieZero wrote:I work as a system administrator, I repair something every day (it means I'm someone who knows where's "Any Key" on keyboard).
Aranarth wrote:TechieZero wrote:I work as a system administrator, I repair something every day (it means I'm someone who knows where's "Any Key" on keyboard).
Show off!
(I have the same job...)
MileageMayVary wrote:Squirrel, you are amazing!
I had the same issue with my Moto G4 and I used an Ifixit kit to replace the battery.
Was wondering when we would hear more about your arcade repairs.
MileageMayVary wrote:Squirrel, you are amazing!
I had the same issue with my Moto G4 and I used an Ifixit kit to replace the battery.
Was wondering when we would hear more about your arcade repairs.
ludi wrote:Our experience has been that its cheaper (in grief) to get the whole screen unit than to try and replace just the panel.Spent the last few days tinkering with my old (gen-1) Pixel, which had a rapidly failing battery. Was pretty sure the glued screen would be in jeopardy so I replaced the phone with another Pixel before attempting the job, then ordered the iFixIt battery and tool kit ($30).
I was right. It's nearly impossible to get the right combination of heat and finesse on that thing, especially around the sides where there's 1.5mm of glue and a fragile OLED panel another half-mm beyond, and the screen was quickly ruined. Fortunately, that's also a fairly cheap replacement if you can live with a non-OE panel ($30 again on eBay). It eventually came back together and now I've got a spare Pixel for use with A/V projects, which I wanted anyway.
Mr Bill wrote:Our experience has been that its cheaper (in grief) to get the whole screen unit than to try and replace just the panel.
Captain Ned wrote:Back when it was the new thing, W95 to W98 was a reformat/reinstall.
SecretSquirrel wrote:I've had a run of successful repairs, and onlly one was house related.
Next up, the house related fix. Well, not so much house, as appliance. My wife had been complaining that the dryer was taking forever to dry things. She said she thought it wasn't heating. Finally got some time to look at it. Sure enough, just blowing cold air, even when set to high heat. Checked the heater relay on the control board and it was switching properly, so no new control board needed. However, that meant taking it apart. Luckily I can tear the thing down in about 15 minutes. After doing it four or five times, you get good. All the connections to the heater were good. Low resistance across the heating coil, so it wasn't broked. Found the high temp thermostat to be open circuit. Checked to make sure the heating coil wasn't shorted to the frame -- it wasn't. Bypassed the thermostat and put everything back together to verify functionality. With the thermostat bypassed, it blew hot and properly cycled the heater to keep the temp in the 150-180 range when on the high temp setting. Ordered a new themostat from Amazon. Due to travel, I had to delay putting the new thermostat in until next weekend. Not a big deal as laundry was done so no need to use the dryer during the week.
Aranarth wrote:I found a working floppy drive and one out of 4 Win98 floppy disks that worked. Oddly, once the system was booted, the DVD drive could not read the Win98 disk, (at all!). But I could put a different disk in the drive and read that.Captain Ned wrote:Back when it was the new thing, W95 to W98 was a reformat/reinstall.
If you have a working CD rom drive then you boot off the cd.
If you don't then you can use a flash drive to boot the machine if it has a new enough bios, then run the install from the flash drive.
Just copy the install files from cd to the flash drive on another machine.
Install from flash is surprisingly quick!
There is an unofficial SP2 for win98 that includes later updates from M$ and various third party updates, bug fixes, and features.