I’ve had growing problems the last couple years with one of the control cables on my Sears snowblower. One of those cables like a bicycle brake cable, with the inextensible inner wire, and the incompressible outer sheath. I’m sure there’s a technical name for cables like that, but I don’t know what it is. (Update: They’re called Bowden cables.)
It’s the cable that directs the discharge chute up or down. It became very sticky, so that I could pull the lever to lower the chute, but when I pushed the lever to raise the chute, it wouldn’t go back up by itself.
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Published on
10/21/2008 in
General.
Part 1
I got the processed films back from Film Rescue, quite a long time ago now. They didn’t really rock my world, I’m afraid.
I finally got around to uploading the images to my home photo gallery, here.
I hate Henry’s Waterloo store. Why? Let’s review the security camera footage…
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I picked up this game for the Wii. I never played any of the Resident Evil series before, but I’ve quite enjoyed the movies, and I generally enjoy survival-horror shoot-em-ups. But this one isn’t doing it for me. I haven’t been playing it very long, but I’m really finding it irritating. Only a few levels in, I’m about ready to abandon the whole stupid waste of time.
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I wanted to get an outdoor cabinet of some kind on my deck, to hold BBQ tools, charcoal, some garden tools, etc. I looked at Home Depot, but all they had was really ugly molded plastic monstrosities. So, I decided to build one myself.
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