Kung Fu Maintenance demonstrates how to remove replace plus install patio slider screen door tension wheels.
OK. Today, I’m going to give you another view of how to change these screen wheels. I’m going to start on top right here. If you use a Phillip’s screw, there’s a tension adjustment screw. Loosening it will loosen up tension on the wheel, so it presses in easier. And tightening it will tighten it up, so it doesn’t press in. So I’m loosening it up now, so it presses nice and easy, presses in.
Now what we need to do, here’s our new wheels and the spring goes down inside down in this portion and the anchor clips on the little peg that’s right here. What you need to do is take your screwdriver and spread those two prongs apart, and press in to remove it.
Taking the old one off is fairly easy. Getting the new one on is a little bit tricky; you have to be careful when you’re going to put the new one on. Put your spring down inside like so and when you insert your screwdriver here, and twist, make sure your screwdriver is not in between this portion here, or it will snap the new wheel.
And then, you’ll adjust it up into place, and again, definitely easier said than done here. There we go, we’re on. Now again, it’s easier to put the door on with this loosened up. So you can lift this portion and slide it on to the track, but once you’ve finished putting the door on you can tighten the tension by tightening the tension screw. So now for the other tension roller, we’re going to flip the screen over. And we’ll get the second one here.
Now for this side, this is the back side. It has a gasket here up top. What we can do is pull this gasket back to expose the tension screw here. And now, we can lower the tension down to release the tension. OK, so right here, we can take our Phillip’s screw and lessen the tension on the bar here. And now, we’re ready to insert our new wheel. OK. Again, just insert the thread. Be careful not to be in the portion there of the wheel. And there we go. I got really lucky on that one. Now, we’re ready to put the screen door back on. Now, the screen door is ready for action.
OK, now the screen door is ready to be put back on. The gasket portion goes towards the window. I’ll just lift it up into place. And on the very bottom of the wheels, just use a knife, a flat blade knife, and lift it up onto the track. The front wheel. OK. Now, we can adjust our tension as well as the pivot of the screen door. And we also have adjustments on the top down over here if we need to. That’s how we’re lining up. That’s pretty good there. Nice and even across the whole way of the door. I’ll loosen this just a hair. And some silicone spray won’t hurt either.
The door is hanging up a little bit on the top so I’m going to lift this side up also, adjust the pivot screw here. Give it a little test run. Looks like it’s calling up for some silicone spray, lube it up. And the gasket just gets pressed back into place like so. Here we go. Press the gasket all the way along and making sure now that we’re not coming out of the track at any portion here. It is a little bit at the back so we will raise that up some more.
Accidentally, got it caught in the door so just going to give it a little pressure, while we tighten this tension screw up. And this way, the door won’t hang up on the top of the track. OK. Now, for another test run here. That’s perfect, doing what it should. Now, just make sure everything seats well and it does. Good to go. Nice new screen wheels.
Today I am going to show you how to clean out the lint filter on a Samsung Eco Dry Steam Dryer.
Now you would think this would be really easy. And it looks really easy but it actually doesn’t work the way that you think that it should work.
Let me show you the easy way to get it done.
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Today I am going to show you how to empty the dryer lint filter on a Samsung Eco Dry Steam Moisture Sensor dryer.
It’s a really nice machine. One little bit of tricky part is right here. You know. You want to clean this each load to get your
maximum efficiency.
And got a shelf peg stuck in there.
What happens here, main part of my story is you get your lint caught inside here.
So how do you empty it?
Well it says to empty it. You see this little handle here. Yeah that is just going to mess you up. There is actually a really easy way to empty this. It just doesn’t look so easy. It is actually from the side. If you pick up both sides. One and two, than it is really easy. But if you try to mess with this front part here. Than you are going to fight it all the way.
See. But if you lift from the side. One… and Two… It’s really easy, and than you can just clear all this stuff off the screens. And now your dryer is going to dry much more efficiently.
Nice and easy.
So once again just to show you. It’s really, really difficult to undo it from here(the front clip). And it really looks like that would be the way to do it. But just doesn’t really work that easy. But opening it from the side. Real simple and close it on down and insert your deal back in your filter catch. Which actually goes in the other way.
The KFM Blog Vertical Blinds Skyscraper Video Repair List Post
KFM gives an Ultimate Video Vertical Blinds Skyscraper Video repair list of links to the most likely vertical blind repairs you will need to make in your lifetime.
Vertical blind headrails are often very sharp being made from thin sheet metal and slats can also cut you as they are often thin plastic. Extra care should be taken around these sharp parts. Make repairs at your own risk. I have donated blood many times and would spare you those experiences.
Perhaps the most common vertical blind repair needed is Vertical Blind Slats Broken Repair.Vertical blinds often break off the portion of the slat where the vane is inserted into the stem.
Vertical blind vane breakages are often caused by wind through an open window, not turning the blinds open before sliding them open, and sometimes these just get pulled on and broken off.
There are many ways to repair broken vertical blind slats.
ThePunch Method you use a hole punch to punch three holes side by side on the opposite end of the blind slat to make a new hole for the slat to hang from. Than, if preferred, the broken side can be trimmed off to be straight. This does make the slat shorter than the others. Sometimes the last blind slat overlaps baseboards and shows less. So this is sometimes a good slat to trade with to give a better appearance.
The Knife or Chisel Methodis similar but uses a different technique. You can see each method by clicking on the video links. This procedure you use a small chisel or knife to puncture a new hole similar to the punch method and having the same problem of a shortened blind slat. Again changing the slats to one of the ends can leave the blinds with a better finished look.
TheHot Glue Method does work and does not shorten the blinds but sometimes can be a bit of a mess. I think it is better used for broken blind stems that have fixed grommet ends where stems are not as easily changed.
TheVane Saver Methodis I think one of the best methods of repair short of replacing the blind slat with a new one. These slat savers are especially useful for special finish designer blind slats with unique finishes that are not easy to find or replace. Here is link http://amzn.to/2kKrdoY(Amazon Link) to the Vane saver repair clips. This is the best way to repair these in my opinion as the repair does not shorten the blind slat. Repair clips are usually made of metal and slipped over the broken portion of the slat making a new place to hang the repaired vane.
IfAll The Blinds Wont Turn this is often a case off all the slats overlapping the wrong way. The way to quickly remedy this situation is to poke the top corner of the wrong way blind slat(as shown in the video) to change the way the blinds overlap.
If anIndividual Stem Wont Turn the cause is often a broken stem or missing comb gear. ABroken Stem often has broken teeth so it may only rotate partially or it may keep popping out of step. This can also be caused by a Broken Comb Gear.
Missing Stem And Comb Gear Replacing as shown in the video is not too difficult but the parts are very small and the repair takes a little patience. The easiest way is to rotate the blinds open center. Hold the replacement stem with its gears inserted into the replacement comb gear and push it up and into the carrier with the missing stem.
If you can not get them to go in together another way is to put the comb gear in first, teeth up, ridges facing the opening, with a pair of needle nose pliers. Than insert the stem and pop it into the carrier. Often when you do this the stem will pop in but the comb gear might not have popped in all the way. The trick here is to examine the comb gear. Look to see which way rotating the wand will draw the comb gear into the carrier. If rotated the wrong way the blinds will often fling the comb gear and stem out like a pair of tiddly winks.
Here is a Trick To Replace Gear Stems For Fixed End Blinds. The trick as shown in the video is to carefully drill through the top of the vertical blinds headrail. Position the hole according to the stem position. If centered drill the hole in the center. If off center drill the hole off center. This will create a place that you can push up the old gear stem through the headrail and than insert the new gear through the hole into its place. Often the grommets that hold the headrails together are one time use only. Drilling through the rail can make a way to make repairs in the present and future.
If you haveVertical Blinds Stems That Popped Out.the procedure is similar as above and shown in the video. This sometimes happens when something is in the way such as a toy or couch and the blind wand is rotated. This sometimes forces the stem and or comb gear to pop out. This happens quite often with self aligning vertical blinds as they are engineered to pop over into line a bit easier if out of step.
With self aligning blinds first make sure all blinds are overlapping the same way or correctly and than you can just gently rotate the wand all the way one way and than the other way. Each gear has a little stop on the outward facing end that cause the gear to pop over as needed to bring the slats in step.
With other blinds do not try to force the master control to turn the blinds or it will break the control. For these you will want to take off the corresponding slat than grasp the offending stem with a pair of pliers and gently pop the stem over into the correct orientation. Yes this procedure sometimes breaks the stem, comb gear, or carrier, so be ready to make further repairs if needed.
If you have Vertical Blinds Individual Stems That Won’t Turn the repair is often similar. Sometimes it is broken stem gears and sometimes the comb gear will have popped out. Sometimes you can find the little comb gear fallen on the floor or in the window track.
Sometimes, with wand controlled vertical blinds, if I need just one comb gear I will take it from the first carrier. That takes away the rotation of the first slat but it turns the first slat into a window viewer to see if anyone is outside easily. It being right next to the wand control makes it convenient to control that first slat by hand.
If you have a Vertical Blind Wand That Came Off it is a fairly easy task to set it back on. Just position the wand at the correct angle and you can hook it back on to the master control. There are a few other types of wands. Some have a slide that slips up to cover the hook opening. Some have a hook that rotates into place to open and close the hook.
Vertical Blinds Master Control Brokenis often caused when something is in the way of the blinds turning (couch, toy, box, broom, mop, chair, clothes, curtains, out of line slat etc..) and the master control is forced in an attempt to rotate the blinds closed.
To get at the master control for either repair you will need to remove the end cap. There are many types of end caps. Some use a clip, some use a grommet, some a screw, some multiple screws, some various combinations of the above and more to hold on the end cap. Just understand that these were engineered to be able to be easily assembled plus somewhat easily disassembled (even if a little less so) and repaired.
After removing the end cap you will often need to release the rear carrier catch or stop so that you can slide things out of the headrail. Some of these use a c clip. Some a hook. Some you can can just press up on the hook, others you will need to remove the hook by removing or loosening the end cap screws. One trick if you have a c clip break when you try to remove it or re seat it is drive a small screw through the headrail to create a new stop to act as the final carrier catch stop.
Vertical Blinds Sticking When Sliding is often caused when manufacturing, shipping, or installing. (See my tip towards the bottom of the page for getting less damage when ordering.) This can also be caused if the headrail was hit or dented somehow. Anyway what happens is a slight bend, dip, or twist. in the headrail causes that carriers to hang up, click, or even cause the carriers to come out of the track completely.
Sometimes damaged headrails can be repaired by first sliding the carriers back on track properly and than bending, twisting, or hitting the headrail back into proper shape. Sometimes it is best to just change out the offending headrail.
Headrail damage is also the most often cause of Vertical Blinds Carriers Separated although if something was in the way such as a broom fell between the slats and the blinds were forcefully slid open that could also cause some carriers to separate. Sometimes you can repair the carrier link or sometimes you can link the separated carriers together.
To relink the carriers you will need to follow the instructions above for removing the end caps and releasing the back stop. Once done you can slide the assembly forward out of the headrail far enough to expose the broken portion of carrier linkage. Sometimes you can just reinsert the carrier linkage by rotating it back into the corresponding next carrier slot. Sometimes you will need to change out a broken carrier. The video Vertical Blinds Carriers Separated makes this a bit clearer.
Vertical Blinds Hard To Slide can sometimes also need the headrail to be bent into shape but before you go there it is a good idea to lube the blinds first. Petroleum jelly will work in a pinch however I think it is best to use a silicone sprayhttps://amzn.to/2BF7SzW(Amazon Link) as it dries and still maintains its lubrication qualities. It is a little smelly when first applied but a dry lube will be less likely to collect hair and dust.
Silicone spray is also great for patio door sliders, window tracks, garage, and screen doors!
Vertical Blinds How To Lubricate.So you have your silicone spray ready. What you want to do is slide the blinds all the way open. Then spray the entire track of the head rail with the silicone spray. Wait about twelve minutes for the spray to mostly dry. Next slide the blinds closed and rotate them opened and closed a few times. Waiting the twelve minutes will keep the spray from dripping onto the slats but still leave it a tiny moist to work onto the teeth of the comb gears. If you see any dripping before sliding wait a bit longer before sliding closed to prevent getting any drips on the blind slats.
One of the main causes ofVertical Blinds That Wont Turn Open All The Way is brackets that do not extend far enough from the wall or a portion of the wall. This can also happen from blinds out of step or from anything else that would block the blinds. Also sometimes a whole set of blinds can have a portion of the the slat stems rotated out of step and need to be rotated as discussed above in the section on Vertical Blind Slats Out Of Step.
Check out these videos also on Vertical Blinds Hitting Wall and Custom Extension For Vertical Blinds Hitting Wall In the custom extension video I wound up using the existing brackets and than adding the new brackets to the old so that I could slide out the headrail to get the further needed clearance. There is always a way!
Vertical Blind Slats That Are Too Long can be trimmed down with strong scissors such as butcher scissors. It is a good idea to use a template such as already trimmed to size slat. Slide the top end of your template blind and the blind you want to trim and cut the bottom of your new blind to size. Continue to use the same template for your new blind slat and cut one slat at a time for best results.
If you have Vertical Blinds With Loose Bracketsthere are a number of ways to tighten these up. Sometimes you can just tighten up the screws but sometimes you will run into some stripped out screw holes. In some instances you can just run new screws or larger screws into the studs.
If the holes are in a spot where there is not a stud you can use a drywall anchor or a molly to strengthen things up. Sometimes you will want to move the bracket to a stronger location where a stud is available. In some instances you may want to just add a new bracket to add strength and avoid the need for patching and painting.
Vertical Blinds Fell Off Brackets. Yes this does happen. Sometimes one way to keep it from happening again is to squeeze the freedom loving bracket or brackets a little bit, either with your hand or a pair of channel locks. Than you can insert the side ridge of the headrail into the groove hook of the bracket and rotate it up, snapping it into place of the flatter release tab portion of the bracket. Freedom is good but we still have a job to do to keep things going!
Vertical Blinds End Cap Came Off. As written before there are many types of end caps. Some use a clip, some use a grommet, some a screw, some multiple screws, some various combinations of the above and more to hold on the end cap.
Vertical Blinds Dragging On Floorcan happen from headrails that have fallen out of the brackets. This can also happen from blinds that are positioned to low or sagging mounting brackets as shown in Vertical Blinds Dragging On Floor Cheap Trick. If something is added behind the bracket you want to make sure that it can not fall out and become a choking hazard.
Before you reset a Vertical Blinds Valance That Came Off you may want to watch this video. I show how to reset the valance clip without breaking it. Okay, okay. I will just tell you the secret here. What you want to do is make sure that you clip the back on first and then rotate the front portion on. The back portion has a bit more of a hook and is more likely to crack if you put the front on first. This type of valance clip the valance portion is rotated into place inside the valance to hold it.
Vertical Blinds How To Replace Bent Slats. Replacing broken or bent slats is not to difficult. For many blinds slats you just lift up on the vane/slat and pull it to the side to remove it. For other types you have to pick up the back of the stem a little bit. For those once you remove one slat you can use the slat to slip under the next stem so that you can pull out the next slat.
Well recently I showed you on another video where I had this dryer filter catch which I didn’t know what it was called.
Turns out it’s actually called a slide and what I wanted to show you today is an easy way that you can find parts that you’re looking for or schematics for appliances that you are having trouble finding parts for.
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Okay so I had this dryer and its got a slide that was broken. What I did was take a photo of the model number. That is here on my phone. And we take that model number and we go to this site here which is Sears Parts Direct.
I will leave a link in the description below and if click that link and anything you order through there I may make a small commission on anything that’s ordered. Help support the channel.
I wanted to preface this video by saying that everything you see when you actually go to the site will be much clearer. I shot the video not with a screen recording software but with just a camera aimed at the screen.
Things will be much clearer when you click the links in the description below and actually go to the sites.
So I am entering the model number. DSKS333EC1WW and than we hit search. And we are going to search it under model number.
And that’s going to bring up our model number, which this one is a GE dryer. Now there is actually lots of different model numbers or different models on this website.
And here we go. This didn’t have a perfect match for the EC1WW but we have got enough items here that are close enough and these are most likely going to use the same part.
So lets click this 2 one I clicked on the model number here and what this has is different parts diagrams and this site has a ton of parts diagrams that you can look up.
Now if you couldn’t find your model number you can use the finder here. It will show you the place that most model numbers are kept. For this one it was inside the dryer door. On the face.
Now what we do is click here on this backsplash cover right here you can see the picture here. And this will bring up the parts diagram.
You can also search for the part by name if you knew what that part was.
Now we just scroll down. No thanks. I don’t want to chat right now.
Right here. On the door is where. This is the part that was broken. 3043. So you come down to this part 3043 and there is our part number right there. WEIM407 and we can add that to cart if we wanted to buy it. This one is $50.25.
But the other thing you could do is take this part number and you could search any other number of sites with it. So it is a pretty cool deal. It just has pretty extensive break downs on everything that you might need for different parts. Lot of different manufacturers. Lot of different part numbers.
I will leave a link in the description to the page where you can order stuff or you can research stuff. Again I make a small commission on anything ordered through there. So it helps support the channel.
And if we wanted to purchase this we would just click on add to cart and that would add it to the cart and there is the deal. You can view cart and checkout. Again if you wanted to you could take this part number or the substitution part number and search the web elsewhere to locate that part. Makes it nice and easy. I could take this and search it on Amazon or wherever it is that you want to search.
Okay I will leave the link in the description for you to get to Amazon as well. Again I make a small commission on anything ordered through there. But what you do is you take your part number. So this one here is the optional part number that they had for this dryer lint trap slide. And than you come over to Amazon and you search for that. Or another site but just giving you the example here.
This is another way I make commission. If we can find the part cheaper. Makes sense right. You want to get the best value for your money.
Okay here it is on Amazon. $13 and free shipping on Amazon so you know probably a much better deal. Again I’ll leave a link in the description to Amazon.
It’s just a nice way to look up the part you need. You can come on over to the link here in the description or Sears parts direct. Search the model number and find your part. Now sometimes parts may not even be available. Or where they are available from. But once you have got that part number than you can come to another site and search the part. Find it much easier.
Again I’ll put links in the description below. That way I make a small commission. Help support the channel. And I just wanted to show you a nice easy way that you can locate parts and locate the schematics for your particular parts that you need.
Parts diagrams it just makes things a lot easier and a lot faster. If you have got a refrigerator. You need to know which kind of filter to use. You can come through this site.
If you bookmark this page. Bookmark this video. Save it in your favorites or save it in your watch later. You can always find it later to look up parts schematics when you need to and than find the part that you need and than shop around. And hey there is a coupon on there. Alright.
So a lot of you maintenance guys will be ordering parts through your supply wherehouses, such as HDSupply, Wilmar, or others. This is a great way to be able to look up the part that you need and get schematics for whatever part you need.
If its a refrigerator gasket. If it is a refrigerator door light switch. Whatever it is. You can look it up on this site. Sears Parts Direct and than be able to contact your supplier where house for special orders for a particular part number.
Makes it much faster. And for many of your units you might have a lot of the same unit so bookmarking pages. Bookmarking the schematics or wiring diagrams or diagrams, parts diagrams for your different appliances model numbers can help speed things up in the future.
You have got it at the ready.
If you need a new door. Whatever it is that you need. And if you need a regular part that comes up often you can bookmark those pages to make things a lot faster for ordering and processing everything that you need to do your job better and faster.
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KFM shows a freezer that makes ice but only makes the freezer ice cream soft. KFM is at it again! Showing you the most likely repairs you’ll ever need to make!
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I’ve got a refrigerator that’s not freezing ice cream sometimes it can be just a dirty coil. It doesn’t take but a few 10 degrees difference sometimes if you have just a low temperature it can be from a dirty coil so it’s kind of one of the first things to try also want to make sure that there’s no ice blockage in the condensate drain because that can also cause it not to be getting cold in the refrigerator. But a lot of times if it’s a dirty coil it can make like a seven to 10 degree difference and that’s enough for it to stop freezing ice cream so that’s the first check.
Some refrigerator coils are located at the back of the refrigerator and some are below the machine like this one. Oh yeah that’ll do it.
The normal temperature in the refrigerator freezer is negative four degrees to four degrees plus or minus four degrees as shown in the infograph on the screen. As most of you know water freezes at 32 degrees but ice cream is kind of the exception it needs a colder temperature to freeze and freezes at more like 17 degrees and that’s why the freezer temperature and the fridge temperature is engineered to be at specific temperatures.
For the different items to freeze and or cool down at particular speeds to be most effective. Different refrigerators have different compartments that are engineered for storage of particular items at ideal temperatures. My poor vacuum! So be on the lookout for more Kung Fu Maintenance coming soon!
Kung Fu Maintenance demonstrates how to replace some wheels that are not rolling right on a patio sliding glass door that is coming out of it’s track and not rolling right.
All right, here goes. We’re replacing the wheels on a patio sliding glass door that’s not working too well. Up top, you can see the door is coming out at certain points. See that? That’s not too good. I’ve got to replace the wheels here and get these adjusted out. What I’ve got are these nylon wheels that roll a lot easier. I’ll show you how these roll. Now it’s pushing it, so it’ll give you a difference here.
Sometimes, you may need to lower the wheels a little bit. On this one, I think I’ll be able to lift it straight out. I’m just going to lift on both sides. I’m going to lift the door out of its track and walk it. Now, it’s free.
I’m going to pull this down. In this unit, the carpet’s going to get cleaned, so I’m not too worried about the carpet, but it’s a good idea to throw a towel down or something, if that’s not the case especially if there’s any grease in the track, or if you’ve tried to lube it first, and that didn’t work. So you want to put a towel down, so the grease doesn’t get all over your carpet.
Now here goes. We’re placing the wheels. On this side, we’re going to remove this secondary foot pin here. OK. See inside here, the screws. And it’s nice, because this back Phillips screws actually can pass as a lock too, to lock the wheel in place.
Each setup’s a little bit different. This particular one has a groove back here. What we can do is insert our screwdriver and then just pop it out like so. And this one gets bent into its little tractor. On these, I find that pre-setting the wheel usually works out good for me. Again, every setup’s a little bit different, but this lowers or raises the wheel. So loosening will lower it, and tightening it will raise it.
So on this side, insert it like so, and then bend the wheel into place like this, and get it well tapped. And now, we can reinsert the secondary foot pin here and screw. And this will lock our wheel into place. Again, take care with these old wheels, because there’s usually a lot of grease on them. You don’t want to get that into your carpet. OK. There’s one wheel.
Now, for our second wheel, this one just links into place right here. It’s a little bit more straightforward. But again, if I don’t tighten this screw up, it’s going to lower the wheel down that low, and that’s pretty low, so I find that usually tightening these down about right here…
We can adjust this once it’s in place, but it’s a lot easier to adjust it before we get it up. That’s in theory, because sometimes it can make putting the door back in a lot harder. But I got a feeling this one will work out pretty good this way. So I’ll discard my old wheels.
Now, we’re ready to put the door back up. When I lift, I’m going to insert the top portion into the top portion of the track. OK. Now, it’s just a matter of lifting and walking it in. You’ll see that the wheel side is dropping into the track. And you can see how much more easily it is sliding when I push it back.
Up top here, you want to make sure that at no point is the door able to come out. In this one, it is. It’s a little too close, and that can allow the door to fall. So what we’re going to have to do is adjust the wheels up a bit higher. The other thing we want to look for is to make sure that we’re able to latch it. OK. And this one is, but again, we do need to raise this front wheel out. To raise these up, we can insert a screwdriver into the bottom cavity, and that’s where it lines up with the setscrew.
Now, the problem is, most screwdrivers won’t reach far enough to get in there. So my 6-in-1’s a bit short. We can either get a longer screwdriver, or I can take the head off of my screwdriver and insert that until it lines up, and then just gently get my 6-in-1 to grab the edge here, which doesn’t always work out that well. Sometimes, it does. Sometimes, it’s a little stubborn.
And for ease of lifting this, of getting this to raise up, what you want to do is lift your patio door and just set it on the edge. Now, be careful and watch your fingers. Don’t get your fingers caught in there or anything, but you lift it up and set it on the edge. This one’s going to be stubborn on me. And hold it taut. See, I’m holding it taut with my hand here, so it doesn’t fall back down in there. And then, you should be able to go ahead and tighten it up here, because it’s significantly easier.
Now, this is going to change the pivot of the door, and most likely, is going to change how the lock lines up, but it’s necessary to keep the door from coming out there. So we’re just checking up top to make sure everything is good. And it is good there. And then now, check our latch to make sure this latch is nice and easy. And it is, so we’re good there.
Anyway, here’s the pivot, and everything lines up good. And again, here’s the difference in the door when pushing it open. It just rolls so much easier. Yes, I just got rid of somebody’s free exercise program, but I don’t think they wanted it anyway, so we’re good to go here. Nice new patio wheels. Next, we got to fix the screen.
Alright. Had a huge plumbing leak. Major nightmare major fun with the old torchy torch underground but wanted to show you afterwards. I went and changed the aerators and let me show you why. See inside the aerator. What happens is sometimes soil from the line gets into these aerators and than just clogs everything up. You can see all the soil just blocking it. These particular aerators are 1.5 gallon per minute. So they already have you know a pretty low flow and all that sand in there just blocking it off restricted the flow quite a bit. So a good idea after a major plumbing repair if you suspect there is sand in the line. It’s a good idea to change out all the aerators and also to check inside the shower head screen. So that’s what I did.
I was able to clean out the shower head screen. You can actually clean out these aerators also but they are cheap enough. It is probably better to just replace them. But anyway with the shower heads I just was able to clean them out. Take them apart and clean out the screens and clean out at the flow restrictor. I have got shower heads with a wand so. So on the shower head I will show you on this side. This is where the flow restrictor is. You can clean this out and than where this attaches to the neck. That little screen there. You can pull that out and clean that out. That makes everything run nice and smooth. Much better water pressure. Not like that. Good to go.
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Today, I’m going to show you how to replace a broken pop-up. You see here as I pull the pop up, this should work the pop-up, but the pop up’s not working.
So to get this out of here, you use a small, flat blade screwdriver to get underneath here. Sometimes it isn’t that easy. I may need a smaller one. I’ve got a smaller one here on my Leatherman. So between the two of these, I should be able to get this up. There we go. And it looks like the bottom’s just broken off the pop up.
There’s a number of different types of pop-ups. What I’ve got here is there’s a couple different sizes of universal pop ups, as well as a standard pop-up. Which it looks like this one had the standard one here. It looks like this one is going to fit the larger universal pop-up.
Down below here. You can see our linkage and everything is set up properly. So that’s all set. Now, it’s going to be a matter of undoing the pop up net here to remove the pop up rod and position the pop-up rod through the pop-up. So we’ve just loosened this with our channel locks. And we’re going to want to try to recover the piece of the pop-up there.
So– oh no. It looks like the pop-up rod itself is broken. So if that’s not long enough we’re going to need to replace the pop-up itself. Oh yeah. Oh darn. So we’re going to need to regroup and replace the pop-up rod also.
Since our pop-up has broken off here, we’ve got a variety of different methods that we can do this is with. We can try replacing it with a different nut and clip as long as the thread size is the same. Or what we can do is just replace the pop-up rod here. I’ve got a larger ball, but it’s got a larger diameter rod.
Now, that’ll work for us as long as the back clip– we can reuse that. With this particular one, I can. But the other important thing is that the ball and socket will fit into the pop-up, which this one appears to.
OK, I’ll hook this up and test this out here. This will insert into there, we’re able to tighten the clip down. So that’s good.
On the other side of this, what we want to do is insert our new pop-up. I’m going to try to use this, what should be a universal pop-up. And feel for it. And insert the rod into the holes that are in the back of the rod.
That’s on the second setting, and that’s not very universal, is it? It’s not popped up high enough. And that’s on the first setting. So obviously, this isn’t universal enough for us.
We can try the smaller one. And that works pretty good. I can try this standard one setting one here.
So it’s going to whichever one gives us the best fit. That looks pretty good there. I think we’re going to go with this one.
It seems more straightforward, how it should be. So now on the bottom, I get my threads started and make sure it’s not cross-threaded. Take you down there. We’re going to finger tighten this down here, just kind of hand tighten it, finger tighten it. And we’ll check it for leaks.
[WATER RUNNING]
Turn the water on up above. And just feeling here for any leaks. So now what I’m going to do is push the pop-up in so that it pulls the pop-up down. So we can fill the sink a little bit. And then go ahead, once it’s pretty full, release it. And this way, it’s a pressure cast to test for any leaks. And we’re good here– no leaks.
[WATER DRAINING]
And our sink is draining good like it should. Now, it’s just going to be a matter of setting up the pop-up rod here.
I’m going to push the pop-up rod to where I want it up top. Uh-oh. Houston, we have a problem. This rod is not going to fit through our clip here.
So we can either widen that up a little bit, or we can go with a different rod style. I think we’re going to need to go with a different rod style. OK– back to the drawing board here. We remove our nut here.
OK, pull the pop-up up top. OK, and we’re going to slip this off. I’ve got a smaller diameter rod here.
So attempt to reuse that. My concern is the ball is a little bit smaller. As long as we can make it happen with no leaks.
Yeah, we’ll leave the pop-up and inserting that into the hole of the pop-up and verifying that I can pop it up. Up and down like so, which I can so. OK, and we’re going to take care not to get this cross threaded.
And the question is, is it going to put enough pressure on the ball to prevent it from leaking? No, it’s not. So this is not going to work for us. This is just going to leak like a sieve. So that one’s not going to work.
There was just too much movement up in there. So I have one more here which the ball size seems similar to the original ball size. Oh, it seems a little bit smaller. Yikes.
Again, I’ve clipped the new one in there. All right– that seems to have enough pressure on the ball, as long as everything works properly on top up here as I adjust the pop-up. So I connected everything down. Down below, we’re going to go ahead and leak test this.
[WATER RUSHING]
Make sure we can operate this. See if we have any leaks here. And we can, so that’s good.
So I’m going to go ahead and pressure test it.
[WATER RUSHING]
Just by filling up the sink. While that’s filling, I can get the rod set up in the back. Go ahead and turn the water off.
Here’s our rod clip for the back. And pull the plug. Up top, I’m going to position it pretty much where we want it. Like so, so that we know we’re working with here. So this is where we want it, in this hole here.
And slip the– oh, you can’t see that, can you? And slip the front part of the clip through here, and then the back part of the clip around here. So that’s going to hold it in place here.
That clip is not very good. I’ll try a different clip here. There we go.
It’s a lot stronger so it’s not going to come undone on us. OK, now you can control it from the top rod, which is what we want. So everything works here. Now, we can pressure test this. Fill up the sink.
[WATER RUSHING]
Looks like it’s time for a new aerator there, too. I’m guessing it’s missing the screen. I don’t know, you tell me. I can’t see it in that way.
OK, I can show you a video in the future on the aerator. And you’d be surprised how much an aerator can stop your hot water from flowing through. Have to show you that on a different video.
OK, so now for the leak test. We’re going to go ahead and pull the plug here and feel for any leaks here. Look for any leaks.
OK, no leaks there. We’re good to go. And that’s how to replace the pop-up.
Up here, we can remove the blue film. So we’ve got a nice, brand new, working pop-up. Good to go.
If you did have any leaks but everything was holding securely here, one way you can get around it is to disassemble wrap the threads with Teflon tape and reassemble. Teflon tape comes in really handy for wrapping your threads and sealing any small, tiny leaks. So that’s how to replace the pop-up and the pop-up rod.
Alright well one very nice feature of some of the newer washing machines is this filter they have.
It has a filter inside the basket and it is also something that you one in awhile need to check. Sometimes you will get an error code up here.
Replacing Washing Machine Filter
What you do is push this little tab to pull this out right here. You can already see some gunk on the back wall. So were gonna scrape all that off and throw all that away.
Beyond that inside of this filter here we still got a lot more stuff. So let me show you that. This one is definitely not the worst I’ve seen. I have definitely seen a lot worse than this but anyway. Right here you just squeeze these two tabs and pull up and than there is all the missing socks and stuff right here. So we’ll just pull all that out.
Separating Washing Machine Filter To Clean Out
So anyway I think it is a really nice feature because it just means that all that stuff is not going into your clothes anymore. So beyond that you can rinse out this little micro screen. Get it all going. Than we can set it back in place down there. It just snaps into place and you are good to go. Ready for some more washing.
New Clothes Washer No Agitator Post
Another nice feature of this new washing machine is it has no agitator so it’s a little bit less likely to wear out your clothes. This is perhaps one of my favorite washing machines at the time being. Fairly easy to work on. Not too bad. And it kind of sounds like a space ship when it is going off. Listen.
Kung Fu Maintenance shows trying to get rid of pigeons keep them away to minimize rodent attraction.
These are pigeon stoppers Keep the pigeons from dropping droppings because these will attract rodents You can see up here the pigeons were determined to get in
Pigeon Droppings
and they made it in and made a mess
Pigeon Droppings
Anyway putting these types of spike up will keep them from nesting and landing there plus making a mess at least curb it You can see all types of screens and everything to keep them out of there That is that
