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 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...
Read MoreStoring HDDs – is it bad for them?
I have often experienced problems with disk drives that have been stored for a few years. They may work perfectly well when put into store but after sitting in a drawer for maybe 5 years they are kaput. And so I’m...
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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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High Sierra and flakey Wi-Fi
High Sierra has just been pushed out to unsuspecting Mac users but it definitely creates problems...
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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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Note to Apple: Notes Sync Broken by iOS10 and Sierra
Changes to the Notes App (namely notes sharing) in Mac OS Sierra and iOS 10 have buggered up the...
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