Archive for September, 2007

Swimming Pool Cleaners – Polaris 360 Pressure Relief Valve

On the Polaris 360 there is a pressure relief valve right where the water feed line connects to the swimming pool filter water supply. The pressure relief valve is there to let excessive pressure out before it gets to the Polaris 360 itself. My pressure regulator opens up at fifteen pounds or more [...]

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Swimming Pool Cleaners

Keep your Polaris 360 swimming pool cleaner in top working order by fixing parts that break as they happen before they cause stress on other parts leading to other problems. I have had my Polaris 360 in my swimming pool now for over four years and it is still going strong because I always [...]

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Garage Door Opener Problems – Door Won’t Open

As a proud owner of a Craftsman garage door opener, model number: 139.53985, I had the experience of the door not moving when I pressed the remote control. I have had this particular garage door opener for around five years and it gets a lot of use, so I can’t complain.
I decided that I [...]

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Toilet Tank Crack And Leaking

Ok, so you just moved into your “new” house and learned that the people who owned the house before you added a bathroom on to the children’s bedroom themselves and when they put the toilet in they set it too far from the wall so now the toilet tank has no support behind it causing [...]

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Toyota Corolla-Buzzing Noise Coming From Under Hood

On my 1995 Toyota Corolla there was a persistent buzzing noise coming from, what I had thought to be, under the hood. It turned out to be coming from the front bumper cover because it had separated from the material underneath it as it aged. As a result the bumper cover was [...]

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Toyota Corolla Timing Belt Replacement

At around sixty thousand miles I had to change the timing belt on my 1995 Toyota Corolla. Nothing went wrong with the old belt it was just time to change it based on the recommendations in the owners manual. The first thing that I did was prepare to do the work by going [...]

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Computer Mouse Problems

Computer mouse repair for the type of mouse with the rolling ball can be made fairly easy. If you have a mouse that is becoming difficult to roll or sounding gravelly as you roll it you just may need to clean it. Just by rolling around your computer mouse pad the mouse roller [...]

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Toilet Bolts-Spinning Without Tightening

A problem with the bolts that hold the toilet bowl to the floor is that sometimes they work themselves loose if they weren’t tightened properly after the toilet bowl was installed. When you first install a new toilet you have what is called a wax gasket that goes between the toilet bowl and the [...]

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Toyota Matrix Tires-Michelin Are The Best!

My 2003 Toyota Matrix is on its third set of tires after only fifty two thousand miles and so far I have found that the Michelin tires are wearing the best. The Michelin’s are also giving the best gas mileage, around 32 miles per gallon, so far. Before the Michelin tires we used [...]

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