What did you fix today?

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Well, today I fixed the leak that I noticed yesterday under my darkroom sink.

I don't know exactly what the cause was - my darkroom is in the basement below the level of the main drain in the house, so I had a system that involved a collection reservoir (aka, a Rubbermaid tub) with a sump pump to move the gray water up to a drain line near the ceiling. For more than a year there has been a problem with the sump pump motor (it was 13 years old)- it has been tripping the GFI circuit, which probably means that the seals were shot. I knew that I needed to replace the pump, and I was suspicious that the tub might have sprung a leak, so I decided to go for an entirely new 'laundry tray' system.

The trip to Home Despot went well. The only problem in assembling the unit was the eight bolts that hold on the lid - getting them aligned so that all eight would engage the captive nuts on the lower half of the unit was frustrating.

But then I had to make up the inlet and outlet connections. Simple, right? Wrong. Plumbing is always a PITA. Took three trips to the hardware store before I finally had enough of the right fittings to be able to make up those two connections.

But the leak is gone.
 

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2F/2F said:
Four.

One to screw in the bulb.

Three to talk about how fine the old one was.
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I like it! I was born and raised in New Jersey and down here in Virginia I'm considered a damn yankee, but that doesn't bother me though.

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Congratulations McFortner! I've been doing it for years and still get a kick out of seeing the negs when they first come out of the tank.
 

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I found that the flow meter that I had installed downstream from my Fotopanel caused the anti-siphon valve to back up and spill water on the floor. Removed the anti-siphon value and replaced with a brass elbow. Problem fixed.
 

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fixed our upstairs thermostat
and 12 sheets of 5x7 paper
 
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I had forgotten in my old age that Pentax 6x7 mirrors hang when the battery dies. So I followed instructions and "fixed" 2 bodies. But i have 4 bodies, 3 with broken chains. I dissasembled all 4 and discovered that the chain and the loop that holds it are REALLY TEENY. Well I knew from chain hanging down into the lens mount that it was teeny, but the loop that holds it to the ring thingy is worse. I couldn't find chain as small as the original so I fantasized about salvaging the good chain. I tested that bdy and found, as I had suspected from previous results, that it really does underexpose frames intermittantly, so one chain is available. Body number 4 was tested too as I recently started shooting Plus X in it and got a very weird flaw on some of the negs. . I didn't get any "marks" , but I did get underexposure [2-3 -4 stops]- usually a full frame, sometimes one third to one half. I suppose the second curtain is catching on the first or otherwise moving too soon??????
So I re-assembled the two bodies with chains still broken, but fixed so the end can't dangle and shot a test roll of plus X in each successfully. We'll see if merely putting the shims back restores alignment.
I suppose that the cost of trying to get an intermittant shutter glitch repaired is more than getting yet another body. Anyone have that problem and get it fixed??
 

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I'm just glad there are no veterinarians posting to this thread.

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Lucky me, I fixed my wife's Fix-Or-Replace-Daily by putting in a new brake lit switch ,the old one had a broken wire which if you can believe prevented the car from shifting out of park,and all so no brake lights. Cost 20.00 bucks,a honest dealer would have charged $150.00 and a dishonest one the price for a new transmission . Got the rest of the day to fart around in the darkroom. YEEEE HAAAA!!!!!

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Replaced a 2-lamp balast resister in my plate etcher...of course they only sell the new balast resisters, which required a little "rewiring" on my part...and I am not a very good electrician. It all worked well in the end.
 

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fixed dinner:
swordfish steaks and asparagus on the charcoal grill
cold chopped romaine lettuce and hand torn baguette
 

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I'm slowly replacing the light seals in my old cameras. One Olympus Pen EES-2 and one Canonet 28 down and drying, another Canonet 28 is soaking the old seals off. And I developed a roll of Lucky SHD 100 36exp in Caffenol McF. Kind of a slow day with both kids here this weekend.

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McFortner said:
I didn't fix anything today, not even lunch!

Michael
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I could tell you were from the South just by that statement....where else would you "fix" your lunch. I know cuz I am from SC myself.

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In the UK, the phrase fixing lunch would imply that the lunch was broken!


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In the US, particularly in the South and parts of New England, to fix something can mean both to REPAIR it or to PREPARE it. Like so many idiomatic expressions that we are so fond of using, "fix" requires the listener to view it in the context of the sentence to determine the intended meaning.

Also, along that line, in many places the foodstuff used to "fix" a meal are commonly called the "fixings" or "fixin's".

I have never figured out why some people call the act of setting the table (putting plates, silverware, napkins, etc. on the table) by the phrase "take up the table". The first time I ever heard that, I was really confused as to why someone would say they were going to remove everything from the table before the meal had been served!

Smiff
 
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