[homeclinic] Homeclinic'ers, Here's Your DRSNews!

From: Dave Harnish <drs@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: homeclinic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 18:06:22 -0600
The DRS News
June 2003
Hello Homeclinic'ers,

Welcome to your current issue of the DRSNews.
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My goal is to supply you with useful appliance information, 
$-saving DIY tips, an occasional encouraging word, and maybe 
even a smile from time to time.  I've wanted to do something 
like this for our friends for many years, and am thrilled to 
finally have the opportunity!  Thanks for subscribing!  
  - Dave Harnish, Dave's Repair Service, New Albany, PA
    Email: drs@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: 570-363-2404
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In this issue:

1) Rolling Your Own: Cutting Room AC Filters
2) Dishwashers and Message Whiteboards (huh?)
3) New! Common Appliance Parts on Sale on Ebay!
4) A Quick Word About Electric Dryer Motors

1) After many years of cutting foam AC filters with scissors, 
I've finally found a better way. It's another one of those 
things my teens would use the word 'duh!' about.

Visit you craft or fabric store and pickup one of those 
rotary cutters the ladies use for fabrics. I've used one for 
years to cut cleaning patches for our firearms, but this 
use had just never dawned on me.

Lay the filter material out on a cutting board or piece of 
Plexiglas.  With the old filter lying on top as a pattern, or, 
better yet, with a 2' square on top as a guide, roll out your 
filter.  Most of these filters come in 15in x 24in pieces. In 
some cases, you'll be able to cut 2 filters for your AC 
out of one of these inexpensive pieces of 'universal' foam.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fast 
this is, and how handy one of these cutters can be! As with 
all our 'duh!' ideas, please let us know of any other uses 
you may have come up with for one of these, and we'll post 
them for all to share.

2) We install a lot of new dishwashers and I often have the 
pleasure of disposing of the old ones.  (I've tried for years to 
talk someone into letting me lay one of these beauties on its 
back in the front yard, minus its door, and planting Petunias 
in it, but so far, no takers!)

Anyway, with 3 teenage daughters, we've been wearing out 
kitchen message whiteboards faster than telephones.  So, in 
another one of those 'duh!' moments (I seem to have a lot of 'em 
since I've hit 50), I remembered that several of those old 
dishwashers had white aluminum panels behind the black 
or almond ones that were showing. Many older DW's 
included several panel colors, and they were easily 
interchangeable.

So I've cut one of these to size (as *large* as possible!) to fit 
under our phone on the kitchen wall, applied a coat of good car 
wax, and 'voila!' as they say in Freedom Toast country - a 
new, improved whiteboard! 'Even rounded the corners a bit 
to match the rest of our, um, décor, and there you have it! 
It's lasted quite a while now and has been well tested, so I 
thought you might want to know about it.  Painted steel might 
be better for this because you could use magnets on it, but 
hey, that's why they make refrigerator doors out of that stuff.

3) A few issues ago I mentioned learning to market 
anything using Ebay traffic, via the 'Silent Sales Machine' 
e-book that has been such a help to us.  Since using the 
techniques from the book, we've also begun selling some 
of our faster-moving appliance parts on Ebay, and wanted 
to let you know that we can save you some money on parts 
and repairs on occasion.

Our various distributors have monthly sale prices on the 
more common parts, and via Ebay we're able to pass these 
savings along to our customers, whom we consider our 
friends.  And we're making a bunch of new friends this way, 
from all over the globe! Long live Ebay!

The specific parts listed vary from week to week, but you 
might want to save the address when you view the 'summary' 
page:

Just copy & paste this ..long.. address into your browser:

http://cgi6.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOther
Items&userid=birdguy&include=0&since=-1&sort=3&
rows=25

4) We talk to many people confused by electric dryers 
that run but won't heat, so let me just mention this in 
passing.  Dryer motors run on 120V, while the electric 
heating system requires 240V. This is why ½ of the 
electrical supply can be 'missing' and the dryer will 
still tumble the laundry.

As we've said before, don't be fooled into thinking  the 
dryer's 240V supply is OK because it's running. 
It's taken me many years to develop the habit of always, 
always checking for 240V supply to a no-heat dryer 
FIRST!
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I leave you with one of our favorites:

    My computer has a Spell Check...

'Eye have a spelling chequer, it came with my Pea Sea. It
plane lee marques for my revue mistakes Aye can knot sea.

Eye ran this poem threw it, eye am shore your pleas too no.
It's letter perfect inn its weigh; my chequer tolled me sew.

The motto of this story is very plane two sea. Don't four get
too ewes you're brain as well adz you're knew Pea Sea.'
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Thanks for allowing me into your inbox again this month. 
I hope you enjoy reading this little project half as much 
as I enjoy writing it for you.  What great friends we're 
making through this cool medium!

May the Lord bless you & yours, and may He continue 
to have mercy on America.

Your friend,

Dave Harnish 
Dave's Repair Service
New Albany, PA
drs@xxxxxxxxxx
(570) 363-2404

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 and honor, and Life' -- Prov. 22:4  
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