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How To Learn And Improve Your English ~ Blog

00:10 Welcome to the Kung Fu Maintenance dashboard!
00:12 Today I’m going to be showing you well, one-way
00:16 you might improve your english if your learning
00:20 reading, writing, understanding
00:21 improving
00:23 pronunciation, dialogue, all those types of things
00:25 what i have here is using the closed captions feature inside
00:29 youtube
00:30 I haven’t done it to all my videos
00:32 I’ve made a start here in doing this
00:35 and in translating
00:36 I’ll maximize it
00:40 what it does down at the bottom is it has got these captions
00:44 as long as you select that.
00:46 Now let me show you how to do that. Down at the very bottom
00:50 click on this little “cc” button right here
00:54 and that turns on the captions
00:56 and now you click on the captions button
00:59 and you can bring up your language so let us say spanish, russian, portuguese
01:04 japanese, italian, german, french,
01:07 chinese, arabic
01:08 I’d like to add more languages little by little. If you don’t see your
01:12 language here please just put a comment on this video requesting
01:15 your language and
01:17 I’ll consider adding it if it’s possible for me to do it. Also little by little I
01:21 may need help with translations so
01:24 if you’re interested in
01:25 translating or proofing translations you can also put a
01:28 message on here. I am going to be doing a lot of videos and
transffering them over
01:32 also sometimes the translations may not be that good
01:36 so let us
01:37 see on this one today I wanted to go over the five most common problems with washing machines
01:41 converted it to spanish
01:43 and it says it in spanish. Now i’m not sure how accurate that is
01:47 you’ll have to tell me
01:50 I poquitho(Spanish for tiny) know only a tiny
01:51 bit of Spanish
01:54 not enough to translate this but i am trying to learn, I like to learn
01:58 different languages it’s just kind of something I have been studying
02:00 anyway
02:01 anyway here it is in Arabic and
02:05 here it is in Chinese
02:07 so anyway you if you wanted to improve your
02:09 English
02:10 this would be one way
02:12 you can have the subtitles in your own language and than
02:17 watch the video
02:18 and you will get to kind of learn
02:20 two things, well a few things. You will get to learn how to fix stuff as well as
02:26 learn a different language so hopefully that is helpful to you
02:30 uh… one more thing here
02:33 Let me pause the video here
02:36 and go over to my
02:38 blog site The KFM Blog
02:41 now you can get here
02:42 by going to my channel
02:44 I just clicked on my channel here the
KungFuMaintenance channel and i’ve
02:48 got a link here to the blog The KFM Blog
02:52 now on the blog
02:53 I’ve got all these different blogs and I have started putting the translations
02:57 from the
02:57 the youtube videos below each
03:00 video blog so
03:02 for instance this one is all translated
and it’s got the time segments so that you can
03:07 translate it over easier but the
03:09 thing that is really neat about this
03:12 about my site here
03:14 is that you can go down
03:15 to the translator and you can actually translate
in into your language so
03:21 if you wanted to see it in a different language
for instance let us say you understand Hebrew
03:24 really good but you don’t understand English so well
03:27 than you can
03:28 click over
03:29 and change it into Hebrew
03:31 than you can read the articles in Hebrew
03:33 and watch the video
03:34 to go along with it so
03:37 little by little I am going to be adding more and more to this
03:40 again you are probably going to see some errors so
03:43 you have to take it with a
03:46 grain of salt here but
03:47 little by little I am going to have to add this and edit and fix
03:51 different problems there may be some humorous stuff
03:54 I’ve actually had some pretty humorous things
happen with the translation
03:58 hopefully uh… nothing offensive in there with the translation please forgive me if
04:03 there is, it’s not me I don’t translate this i don’t know
04:06 these languages I don’t know hot to speak Finish or German
04:09 I do try to learn
04:11 things a little bit but I’m a far ways from actually understanding those things
04:16 so anyway I hope that helps if you’re
04:18 out there wanting to learn english as well
as pick up some maintenance skills
04:22 along the way this is kind of a nice way to
learn
04:25 a few things at the same time so i hope
you like, favorite, and subscribe
04:29 and if you
04:31 feel up for it there is a donate button
here that helps me do what I do
04:35 Let me try to get this back
04:38 to English here let’s see here we go
04:41 and now it is going to translate it back into
English so
04:44 also got a link to my book
04:46 on the blog here
04:49 and got the donate button where you can
04:51 buy me a cup of coffee
04:52 which would be great
04:53 helps me do what I do and put a
04:56 little energy behind it
04:57 kick start me on the next blog
04:59 or on the next video
05:01 anyway I hope the videos help
05:03 hope you like this video hope it helps some of you out there. Thanks for watching!

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How To Convert Vertical Blinds From Cord And Chain To A Wand

If you have corded vertical blinds that have a centered master control gear running through the center of the gear channels than the blinds can be converted. All you need is a master wand control, a wand, and about fifteen minutes spare time to make the change. First loosen and remove both end brackets. Next remove the gear mechanisms from inside the end caps (usually held in place by a keeper). Discard the inner gears and blind chain. Behind the blind gears opposite of the corded end you will find the cord is knotted or split weight clipped. Cut off the knots or split weights and remove the entire cord. (Watching the youtube video I made on this will help you better understand the steps involved.)

Next find the keeper and make sure it is installed in the proper place just in front of what will be the very last slat. If it is in the wrong place remove it and install it in the proper place. If the blind slats are curved the convex portion should go to the back. Next install the rear end bracket. Now slip off any guides in the way of the first stem control and remove about the first four slats to give better access. Next slide out the main gear a bit and some of the blind stem controls enough for you to use your screwdriver more easily.

The new master control will have two screws that pass through it linking it to a stem control. Remove the two screws and discard the stemless stem control. Next slide the master wand control onto the main gear, screw holes facing towards the blinds. Next slide the first stem control up against the master control and use the two screws to link the first stem control to it. Now re-install the guides previously removed and reattach the end cap.

Attach the blind wand, reinstall your four slats and your ready to test the blinds for proper rotation. If you can’t get a full rotation you may need to pop each stem over a couple points. I will try to cover this better in a future video so subscribe to my Youtube channel if you want to be one of the first people to see that video (your subscribing helps support and encourage me to make more videos and write more blogs).

As I have mentioned before do be careful as the blind head rail is very sharp unfinished metal and cuts flesh just a bit to easily. The video on Stems and Gears should help a bit in understanding the way vertical blinds work.

~ I Wish You Great Success ~
~ Kung Fu Maintenance ~

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