Category: DIY Repairs
Repair the Logitech Force Feedback Steering Wheel G25
An extensive guide and comment thread to help repair the Logitech G25 Force Feedback steering wheel. Essential reading if your wheel doesn’t calibrate.
Read MoreApple Mail on El Capitan like treacle?
Apple Mail was becoming a total pain in the arse but downloading and re-installing Xcode with the most recent version for El Capitan has completely solved the issue!
Read MoreSugru – some ideas for making use of this cool stuff.
Made a 90° bend jack plug for a guitar lead. I just removed the barrel from a normal jack plug, re-soldered the lead and moulded Sugru around the whole thing with the cable coming out of the side. The brown coloured Sugru gives...
Read MoreStop the foam pads falling off your Grado headphones
The original foam pads on my Grados disintegrated and I was never comfortable with them anyway so I bought some cheap replacements off Amazon. The trouble with these is that they don’t stay on very well. The rim around the...
Read MoreHotpoint Induction Hob Controls
Our Hotpoint CID740B Induction Hob got a good review from me last year but it’s now becoming impossible to work with. The touch controls have slowly become less and less responsive to the point where we now have to use a...
Read MoreSalter Megastone non-stick?
We recently sent back these non-stick pans made by Salter – as you can see it’s easy to scrape off the white flecks that are part of the ‘megastone’ coating. “Covered in a megastone coating, these...
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Whirlpool Maytag Admiral fridge flashing panel
This is a problem that we had been living with for a while now: when using the ice dispenser a...
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High Sierra search on ExFAT or NTFS is useless
searching in the Finder on ExFAT formatted SD cards – it finds files but they cannot be manipulated at all from the search results.
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The Eclipse from Helen GA
As totality approaches and the sky rapidly darkens, everyone realises that they are about to witness something special. …this is how people react to the sight of a total solar eclipse!
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Install Windows 10 using old OEM Windows 7 COA
For anyone who’s interested, I’ve just managed to get my spare Mac Mini dual booting...
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