Youtube to the Rescue - Again

[SMSgt]

YouTube is great for seeing how to repair something. However, it also will show you 100 different ways to tighten a screw. You need to know enough to sort through the BS.

 

[chief38]

YouTube has some great info and video’s-just beware…. some are not. I would recommend watching a few and take away the best from all.

 

[Bald1]

I mess around with a lot of small engines which usually require carb rebuilds. If it take it apart to soak and wait too long to reassemble I sometimes forget which jet or needle is which. YouTube is helpful then.

 

[wuluf]

I have never been mechanically adept. I'm fine with videos, but when something goes wrong on my end that didn't happen in the video, it's time to call someone..

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[DWalt]

A problem is that many of the YT videos are loaded with endless stupid ads that you cannot zip through.

 

[boykinlp]

My daughter’s Jeep needed a starter in Erie at college.
I’m south of Pittsburgh.
Got on YouTube and found a video that told me what tools I needed, exactly.
Only issue was I could not get to the starter, where it was parked.
I tried hitting it with a hammer to knock it of a high spot, if that’s what the issue was.
It was getting late so I headed home, having to work in the morning.
Next evening she called and said she got it fixed.
She asked a guy she knew, a farm boy, and he said he’d put it on and was done in under an hour.
His fee was a bottle of wine.

Are you sure he was a farm boy? I would’ve guessed a 6 pack of beer for a farm boy! Must’ve been a uppity farm boy. JK, glad it worked out for your daughter.
Larry

 

[oldbrownhat]

...Gotta check my pockets more carefully in the future before I put stuff in the wash.

No error codes on mine; it's pre-digital A few years ago my front-load washer started making terrible noises as the "spider" - the aluminum casting that holds the drum - had cracked. I found that the drum had a 25 year warranty, so they sent out a new one. Long story short- I had the whole thing disassembled on the floor and when I was putting it back together, I checked the rubber inlet boot to the pump and found whack of stuff: about $18 in change, a couple of hex screwdriver bits, and a key for my tractor!

 

[glenwolde]

Even if you get it wrong the first time, it's still cheaper.

I had a washer that refused to stop filling. I got the dreaded call from the wife about water running out under the garage door when she pulled into the driveway.

Did my research, likely the pressure switch which if I recall was right there behind the operating dial. Ordered part ($75), installed, no go. Still filling. Hmm.

OK, well, then there's no pressure coming to the switch maybe. The pressure was generated by a clear flexible tube running up from the bottom. As the water filled in the washer it also pushed its way up the tube and that's what created the pressure to activate the switch.

I started going along the tube and found a tiny cut right at one of the tie-downs. I replaced the entire tube. Less than a dollar.

I left the new part in place. I know how this works. You send the part back and a month later it actually does break. The restocking on the part and the shipping was almost half the price of the part anyway. I put the one I took out in the junk box. Just in case I needed it. I never did. But only because I kept it.

One lesson I learned from my years in manufacturing is that your mechanical downtime moves inversely to the amount of spare parts you keep. If we needed to order a part I often told maintenance to buy two.

 

[Golddollar]

No error codes on mine; it's pre-digital A few years ago my front-load washer started making terrible noises as the "spider" - the aluminum casting that holds the drum - had cracked. I found that the drum had a 25 year warranty, so they sent out a new one. Long story short- I had the whole thing disassembled on the floor and when I was putting it back together, I checked the rubber inlet boot to the pump and found whack of stuff: about $18 in change, a couple of hex screwdriver bits, and a key for my tractor!

With all of those Canadian Twonies it would be easy to get $18 in change.