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I think the smallest assembly you can replace and still be reasonably sure you are fixing it, is the knob you press and the white porcelain high voltage insulator with center electrode. See if the maker will supply you with an exploded view or parts list or just ask a local distributor for...

There is an aircraft level of safety, so-called six nines, which is a 99.999% likelihood that the aircraft will not fail during its mission length. In principle you can work backwards from this 50 hours to figure the mean time between failures of these lights. If the bulb MTBF is 50 hours...

O, ye of little faith :( While I have your attention - Q: what is an advantage of being fed a steady stream of insults as a kid? A: you become somewhat impervious to the treatment you will receive later in life.

I got to cut more than a few keys but there must be hundreds of key blanks. The brass splinters go into your fingers. KW1 was popular here. BTW, the locksmith who taught me this has died and I don't feel that good myself. . . You need more info. The blanks along with their...

Well, I'm glad that issue is put to bed!!!

I heard that when Reagan was elected, a French journalist at the scene was asking himself how he was possibly going to explain to the French people that a movie actor was now president of the US. The hope I had for Obama has largely evaporated - but - I still have a photo from the newspaper...

http://www.lonkilgore.com/freebies/bench_standards_pounds_small.pdf Our Latinos take on dangerous, low paying work and some die. I doubt that they are mourned by anyone outside of their immediate family. And they come here anyway. I think I don't know how good I have it.

Even the abstract stuff on the news and on TV?

I think it is shot. How much for a new part vs. how much for a new grill?

Over here it's 120 +/- 5% or +/- 10% depending on what state you live. I can't personally confirm or disprove it but the people who study this stuff would, I guess, say yes. Look it up, decide for yourself. BTW, the brightness is supposed to vary with V^3.5 and insulation lifetime...

You mean gypsies? Over here we have "Hispanics".

May also be out of adjustment which you can confirm by having someone watch the light while you fuss with the shift lever.

Check its resistance with a multimeter. This meter will pay for itself almost immediately. Many members here will help you pick one.

Lamp life is proportional to voltage to the 12th or 14th power so if you can slightly reduce voltage with a resistor or by using thinner wires you may find a good compromise between brightness and lifetime. Scrapped TV sets and receivers have power resistors ideally suited to this kind of...

Ropes, cables, block & tackle, many helpers, safety lines if one breaks. How much weight we talkin' about heah?

I doubt it, and if it's very important you could make a wire or wood frame mockup of the doorway (a sofa mockup would be very complex) and try to fit it over the sofa in every way possible. Just thinking of all the ways these fit together is difficult in itself. This 3D problem is about as...

If there is a time delay between the flame initiation and the sparker working again I'd say it has to do with sparker being heated. You might be able to confirm this thermal link with a cigarette lighter. But, "The piezoeffect in piezoceramics is "trained", so unfortunately their high...

I had to get my frau to translate that joke. I need about six months in Germany, total immersion, to get reasonably good at the language. Right now I depend on the context quite a bit. My relatives came from the Karlsruhe area. The first time I landed at Frankfurt there was this long...

Bingo! mis·take (m-stk) n. 1. An error or fault resulting from defective judgment, deficient knowledge, or carelessness. 2. A misconception or misunderstanding. v. mis·took (m-stk), mis·tak·en (m-stkn), mis·tak·ing, mis·takes v.tr. 1. To understand wrongly; misinterpret: mistook my...

The Internet seems to say there is no correlation between price & quality but this idea is also controversial. Maybe somebody with an MBA can chime in and post their opinion.