The rubber on the heel of my fairly new shoe started to peel away from the bottom of the shoe. To fix the problem, I decided to use 5 minute quick set epoxy which cures quickly, is very strong, and bonds to just about any solid I’ve tried it on. Here is quick video on how I made the fix. Read on…
Updated: 16 Jan. 2012
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I make homebrewed beer and have been doing partial mash brewing lately. The processes involves steeping malted barely in a 2 gallon beverage cooler then transferring, via the spout on the cooler, this wort to a brew pot to boil. The spout on my beverage cooler didn’t have good flow and I had to keep the little button depressed while the hot wort flowed out and burned my finger. Here’s how I fixed the problem. Read on…
I recently got into pinhole photography and needed a light meter to calculate exposure times. Light meter are ridiculously expensive and I figured there had to be a way to make one myself and it turns out, I was right. I will walk you through how to make a light meter from a cheap battery tester and a solar cell ripped from a calculator. You should be able to make one yourself for significantly less than $10. Read on…
Here is how to quickly and easily drill holes in glass. In fact, you can drill a 1″ hole in a 10 gallon aquarium in under 3 minutes from start to finish! I’ve tried several methods and the method I describe is by far the fastest and easiest. All you need is an electric drill, some cheap modeling clay, and diamond drill bit. I’ve also included a how-to video! Read on…
Updated: 7 Nov. 2010
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I got a dress shirt for my birthday but they forgot to take the security ink tag off of the shirt at the store. This shirt was not stolen and I could have taken the shirt back to the store and had them remove the tag for me but, the store was far away and I thought I could remove it myself. I will show you how I did it. This general method should work for other types of security tags too. Please, do NOT steal clothing. Stealing is bad. Read on…
I got a new laptop the other day and installed Debian Squeeze (“testing” as of this writing) with Gnome 2.26 as a second OS. As I began typing, the cursor would occasionally jump to random spots causing havoc to my typing. I hate touchpads in general so I use a USB mouse for all my mousing needs. There are software solutions to this problem but I could not get any of these to work so I came up with a quick and dirty fix. Read on…
Updated: 12 July 2010 (Software method)
Updated: 7 Nov. 2011
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Once upon a time I had a 2.5 gallon nano reef tank and I wanted to add a refugium to it to grow macro algae. Being such a small tank it did not make sense to set up a smaller tank to act as a refugium like some people do for larger reef tanks. So, I came up with the idea of adding a refugium to the small power filter that provided water movement to the tank. Read on…
