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09
Jan
2013

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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20
May
2011

Getting Vertical ~ Repairing Vertical Blinds

Let us say you go to open your vertical blinds and oh no, the blinds won’t open. The first thing to check for is any blind slats that are out of line with the others. Look for any that are overlapping the others the wrong way and push the top corner to set it the right way. This is the most often needed repair for vertical blinds. Blinds often get out of alignment due to wind, people, pets, vacuums, chairs etc…

 

 

A bigger problem is when one of the gears gets turned out of step with the other gears. The repair is performed by turning the stem the right way. Sometimes you can grab the stem and turn it with your hand. Take care not to bend the slat itself or it may break. Often you will need or want to remove the slat. That makes it easier to grab the stem with a pair of pliers and then pop it over.

This repair sometimes causes a gear tooth to break. Replacing stem gears is fairly easy and I will try to make a video for that repair in the future. I cover all of these repairs and much more in my book, Kung Fu Maintenance. I have another video at present titled The Master Blind Gear. I hope you like it and that it serves you well. It covers (as you probably guessed) how to replace a stripped master blind gear controller for vertical blinds.

Be extra careful when working with blinds and appliances as the metal is often unfinished metal and very sharp. I have given blood numerous times. A little precaution makes for a better day.

~~~ Get Vertical ~~~ Stay Above Horizontal ~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kung Fu Maintenance ~~~~~~~~~~

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16
May
2011

Increasing Your Balance ~ Weighting out a Ceiling Fan Wobble

This is  my eleventh video. It was the first Kung Fu Maintenance video I used my voice on. To my surprise it has gotten far more hits than any of my others. This is true even though (among my vids) it is one of the most disliked uploaded videos. Perhaps for the noise (voice) (music) but I think more than anything for the fact that this repair takes so much patience. It is a tried and true method and I have done it many times. It is not my favorite repair either but it normally works, unless the fan is beyond balancing. I have had many dislikes over the brand of this particular fan. Also I think it gets many dislikes because there are some who think it is not worth it to balance a fan (or believe it impossible) and would rather buy a new one. This is fine. (You can make pizza, if you have the dough( and sauce, and cheese etc. . ). What follows is for the savers.

 

 

First clean the fan. Then tighten up all the screws. Tighten the fan blade screws and especially the down rod set screws where the down rod goes into the fan top. Often times this is enough to fix the wobble. Sometimes you can adjust the position of the light kit or the position of the down rod socket by pushing the whole fan up and turning a little bit (with power off of course). Try several different positions to see if you can rid the wobble.

If those attempts don’t rid your wobble than you will need a fan balancing kit. They are sold at most hardware stores or you can order one from my store Kung Fu Maintenance Supply and Appliance. They usually have instructions to follow which normally involve the following.

Clip the fan blade weight clip to the back edge of a fan blade either on the very end center or in the middle at the back of the blade. Turn the fan on and note if it wobbles more or less. Note the blade you started with than do the same on each of the other fan blades to determine which one gives you the least amount of wobble. This takes a lot of patience as you have to let the fan blades stop each time so no one gets hurt.

Next clip the fan weight in the center at the back of the fan blade with the least wobble. Slide the clip two inches toward the fan center and check the wobble. Than slide the clip four inch away from the center of the fan blade. Whichever direction towards the center or further away gives you the least wobble continue checking for the least wobble in two inch increments until you determine the best spot for least wobble. This is where you will stick one of the fan weights clean the spot on the center top of the fan blade really well. This way the weight doesn’t go flying off later (It’s all fun and games till someone gets hurt). Remove the plastic covering the adhesive and press it down top center of the fan blade directly in line with your fan weight clip.

Now you can remove the fan weight clip and check for wobbling. All set you’re all done but if there is still some wobble sometimes it takes more than one weight. This is why the weight kit usually comes with two or three weights. Repeat the entire process again with the second and if necessary the third weight. Yes it is understandable that this video gets some dislikes. I could even sometimes dislike it myself. It puts a real tester on ADD and caffeinated people .

 

~~~Increasing your Balance~~~

~~~~~~~~~~Kung Fu Maintenance~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

 

 

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