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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!
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I got a new hand truck today....not a usual occurrence.
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
I got a new hand truck for free once.... and then someone stole it......
Draka
Wonder Woman
Finally bit the bullet and yanked my dryer apart today. That thing is looking like it was demolished on my bathroom floor. Wouldn't you know it? It really is a very simple and cheap part, a small component, to fix it but...can't find the damn thing anywhere. I went to Menards, O'Hara's Hardware (Ace), an electrical supply company, called a few appliance repair people to see if they had any spares,...nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I ended up looking online and it is about impossible to find. It's a freakin fuse for crying out loud. This tiny little fuse within the wiring. It is such a rare little item, used in such a rare appliance (apartment dryer), that the best I could do was find a fuse that had an acceptable rating to replace it, but may by a bit big (this one is in mm and the one I ordered is isn't) and I'm just hoping I can perhaps jam it in well enough to work. 
We'll find out in about a week (yes, that long for shipping) if I can make it work.
Of course, there is always still the possibility that there is something else wrong within the dryer that made that fuse blow (but I couldn't find anything else today). Though, it isn't unheard of for my bathroom wiring to surge for some reason. It could have just been a surge.
We'll find out in about a week (yes, that long for shipping) if I can make it work. Of course, there is always still the possibility that there is something else wrong within the dryer that made that fuse blow (but I couldn't find anything else today). Though, it isn't unheard of for my bathroom wiring to surge for some reason. It could have just been a surge.
Such situations call for the image that the only proper words are cussing and the only proper tool is a sledgehammer. So you are a better person than I when it comes to this kind of thing.Finally bit the bullet and yanked my dryer apart today. That thing is looking like it was demolished on my bathroom floor. Wouldn't you know it? It really is a very simple and cheap part, a small component, to fix it but...can't find the damn thing anywhere. I went to Menards, O'Hara's Hardware (Ace), an electrical supply company, called a few appliance repair people to see if they had any spares,...nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I ended up looking online and it is about impossible to find. It's a freakin fuse for crying out loud. This tiny little fuse within the wiring. It is such a rare little item, used in such a rare appliance (apartment dryer), that the best I could do was find a fuse that had an acceptable rating to replace it, but may by a bit big (this one is in mm and the one I ordered is isn't) and I'm just hoping I can perhaps jam it in well enough to work.
It was prolly @Smart Guy.
Wait.....wrong thread.
Draka
Wonder Woman
The fact that I drove around town for at least an hour just looking for this fuse and then spending even longer making phone calls and internet searching...for a FUSE...was truly maddening. What should have been an afternoon's job start to finish is going to take at least a week just to see if I still need to keep looking for ...a fuse.
Yay.
There was one time when I was working on something that my wife asked if I was sure I was going to be able to do it. That threw down a very large gauntlet and thought to myself that I would be dammed if I did not succeed no matter what. I have a stubborn streak a mile wide and 100 fathoms deep in such situations so I persevered until the deed was done. It sounds like you have one of those streaks as well.The fact that I drove around town for at least an hour just looking for this fuse and then spending even longer making phone calls and internet searching...for a FUSE...was truly maddening. What should have been an afternoon's job start to finish is going to take at least a week just to see if I still need to keep looking for ...a fuse.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Fuses can be a bane. My mom's dyer, it's a Whirlpool or something like that, and when a fuse went out it was a dead-end search for a replacement until a repair shop said that a fuse designed and made for Kenmore, or something like that, is a suitable substitute.Finally bit the bullet and yanked my dryer apart today. That thing is looking like it was demolished on my bathroom floor. Wouldn't you know it? It really is a very simple and cheap part, a small component, to fix it but...can't find the damn thing anywhere. I went to Menards, O'Hara's Hardware (Ace), an electrical supply company, called a few appliance repair people to see if they had any spares,...nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. I ended up looking online and it is about impossible to find. It's a freakin fuse for crying out loud. This tiny little fuse within the wiring. It is such a rare little item, used in such a rare appliance (apartment dryer), that the best I could do was find a fuse that had an acceptable rating to replace it, but may by a bit big (this one is in mm and the one I ordered is isn't) and I'm just hoping I can perhaps jam it in well enough to work.
I also had a large TV once, and a cheap fuse in it went out, and it was going to cost at least $90 to have maybe a $2 or $5 dollar fuse replaced by a repair shop. But the TV large and so heavy that I just gave it away under the condition of making it clear it needs a new fuse, and that whoever I gave it to comes and picks it up themselves and does all the lifting, because I didn't want to mess it anymore because it was just too much.
Draka
Wonder Woman
This is the dryer I have:
Sonya. That's right, Sonya. How many people you think have even heard of this brand? Same thing as Panda. You think parts are in any way easy to come by? No. This is not a large regular dryer. This is not a regular brand. This is an off brand 110v apartment sized dryer. It's one of those things where the manufacturer doesn't really put out parts, and if you need it repaired you are to send the whole thing back to them for repair and then it is sent back. You think I'm going to do that? Hell no. And it isn't cheap either. I'm not happy with the idea of replacing it over a fuse, that's why I am going to make something work somehow. I want my dryer back and I should be able to repair a fuse issue for gods sake.
It sounds like a Simpsons brand....like Sorny, Magnetbox & Panaphonic.This is the dryer I have:
Sonya. That's right, Sonya. How many people you think have even heard of this brand? Same thing as Panda. You think parts are in any way easy to come by? No. This is not a large regular dryer. This is not a regular brand. This is an off brand 110v apartment sized dryer. It's one of those things where the manufacturer doesn't really put out parts, and if you need it repaired you are to send the whole thing back to them for repair and then it is sent back. You think I'm going to do that? Hell no. And it isn't cheap either. I'm not happy with the idea of replacing it over a fuse, that's why I am going to make something work somehow. I want my dryer back and I should be able to repair a fuse issue for gods sake.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
You'd think there'd be some company out there that specializes in making such things. It's not like our society isn't dependent upon billions--if not trillions--of fuses or anything like that. And it's electrical and something that probably isn't highly specialized, there has to be some sort of fix. I'm rooting for you, because a blown fuse is too simple of a fix to ever replace something. But, then again, I've never had something where I couldn't at least find something that at least matched in terms of the technical specs, even if it didn't match up to dimensions and sizes.
Draka
Wonder Woman
Kind of I guess. Check Amazon and you'll find all kinds of apartment appliances but the brands aren't going to be major ones. Those are for full size appliances. Small companies make most the apartment ones. Sonya and Panda and Danby off the top of my head are the popular apt appliance brands. My washer is...Magic Chef. Bet you didn't know they even made washing machines.
I have no complaints over my washer though. Works fine so far and gets my clothes clean so, I'm happy.
Draka
Wonder Woman
I can find the right size with the wrong rating or the suitable rating in the wrong size. So I'm just going to go with the closest wrong size but suitable rating one I can get and see about jamming it in there.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
As long as it's the right rating it should work, even is some minor cosmetic adjustments are necessary to accommodate the size difference.I can find the right size with the wrong rating or the suitable rating in the wrong size. So I'm just going to go with the closest wrong size but suitable rating one I can get and see about jamming it in there.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I have to get up in the morning, but I'm not really wanting to go to bed because I've been struggling with insomnia really bad these past couple of weeks and I know that I'm just going to be laying in bed, tossing and turning, pretty much until I have to get up.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
And this character I'm writing about is so heavily based on me that I caught myself saying "I" today to describe this character who is pretty much a radicalized and amplified version of me. I even caught this character writing through me on the forum.
In a way, it's wickedly fascinating. This story is very much largely the result of my reading Chuck Palahniuk, whose most famous work is Fight Club, and his style is so magnificent and in your face, his characters so bold, the narrative frequently includes "you," (literally, you, the reader, who is learning from this conversation the character is having with you, so much that "you" are even put into the scene (and without regards to the sex or gender of the reader - whether or not the book is a bunch of guys pounding each other's faces in or a former fashion model, "you" are getting black eyes in one book and "you" are being strapped in to a corset in another, "you" are with the family in one scene, "you" are not your bank account, and this is "your" life, and it's ending one second at a time)) and after reading him and developing a fascination for his works, I really wanted to write something that imitates that style. And in doing so, I'm using "I" to refer to this character and even typing out things that he would say. Because I've had insomnia pretty bad lately, where you're never really asleep or awake, if I meet any new and interesting friends over the next few days I'm going to check myself into a psych ward!
In a way, it's wickedly fascinating. This story is very much largely the result of my reading Chuck Palahniuk, whose most famous work is Fight Club, and his style is so magnificent and in your face, his characters so bold, the narrative frequently includes "you," (literally, you, the reader, who is learning from this conversation the character is having with you, so much that "you" are even put into the scene (and without regards to the sex or gender of the reader - whether or not the book is a bunch of guys pounding each other's faces in or a former fashion model, "you" are getting black eyes in one book and "you" are being strapped in to a corset in another, "you" are with the family in one scene, "you" are not your bank account, and this is "your" life, and it's ending one second at a time)) and after reading him and developing a fascination for his works, I really wanted to write something that imitates that style. And in doing so, I'm using "I" to refer to this character and even typing out things that he would say. Because I've had insomnia pretty bad lately, where you're never really asleep or awake, if I meet any new and interesting friends over the next few days I'm going to check myself into a psych ward!
As a landlord, I too saw such odd brand names for products....Kind of I guess. Check Amazon and you'll find all kinds of apartment appliances but the brands aren't going to be major ones. Those are for full size appliances. Small companies make most the apartment ones. Sonya and Panda and Danby off the top of my head are the popular apt appliance brands. My washer is...Magic Chef. Bet you didn't know they even made washing machines.
Hotpoint refrigerators
Coldspot stoves
Frigidaire stoves
I expect that some day, Snap-On Tools will bring out a line of sex toys.
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