You’re washing your swimsuits in your newer top-loading GE washing machine – the kind that senses the size of the load for you. It washes and washes, but then, when it comes time to rinse and spin, it just stops. It looks like it’s running, but it’s not doing a darned thing. That’s because it’sContinue reading “How to Fix a GE Washing Machine Drain Pump”
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How to Drill into Sheet Metal
If you’d like to hang that nice piece of sheet steel on the wall to hold your magnets, you may need to drill some holes in the corners. Here’s an easy and safe way to do it.
How to Unjam a Shredder
Grum, grum grum goes the shredder until gru…it stops dead. Or the shredder just keeps on running and running and running… Here’s how to fix it.
How to Make Your Own Microwave Popcorn
Making your won microwave popcorn is quick, easy, and surprisingly inexpensive!
How to Unstick Your Pool Vac Ultra
Why isn’t your Hayward Pool Vac Ultra pool vacuum skimming across the bottom like it ought to? Maybe there’s something stuck in it. Here’s how to get it unstuck.
How to Replace Your Pool Vac Ultra Gearbox
If your Hayward Pool Vac only travels in straight lines, the fix is easy and inexpensive, and kinda fun!
How to Add Toe Clips to Your Bicycle
You push on the pedals to make your bike move. Wouldn’t it be nice if, while you were pushing with one leg, you could be lifting with the other? Twice as far for half the work? Sign me in!
How to Add Diatomaceous Earth to Your Pool Filter
If you find that your swimming pool water isn’t as clean and clear as you’d like, and your pool has a diatomaceous earth, or DE, filter, you may find instructions to add more DE. But how?
How to Clear Your Pool Pump Impeller
If the pressure in your swimming pool filter looks correct, but the water doesn’t seem to be moving through it very quickly, it could be that your pool pump’s impeller is clogged.
How to Change a Bicycle Tire
Uh oh, the tire on the Orange Monster is flat!
How did it happen? What did you run over? What did you hit?