Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 February 2010
fixing buzzing guitar frets
It's been a fixin' it kind of day today.
The Sunday Morning rain preceded a visit to Halfords on the trail of a very particular lightbulb. The blue car had become one eyed and I had to suffer the inevitable time penalty associated with its replacement. It's almost a conventional Sunday activity, fiddling around with a car. It already looks clean though, so there's no danger of even more traditionalism.
Then I was sitting next to my work PC ominously switched on, because of some stuff from Friday that I couldn't complete. Basically, there's another computer fault which means a further trip to the repair den in the office on Monday. This will be the third time since I received the 'new improved' device in November.
And I wanted to record another track from my lyric-making, this time with my rather economically priced acoustic guitar, only to remember that the middle frets have become non-playable since around the last time I re-stringed it.
Grrr.
A few minutes with a pair of pliers and a small piece of plastic and I was back in business. Its probably not the way a luthier would repair it, but it worked for me.
I did try that big bolt "truss rod" adjustment first, but I could tell it wasn't going to work, whilst pinging the pegs for the strings and adding a sliver of packing to the bridge has done the trick.
Full pix for anyone else so foolhardy, are here
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
quick fix sky reception after snow storm
There seem to be two methods, which are dish height dependent.
(1) lower dish. Hit it with a broomstick to dislodge ice and snow.
(2) higher dish. Throw a football at it to dislodge ice and snow.
I have used both methods successfully, although I expect they are frowned upon by Sky.
* I know the picture is of a barbecue. The Sky dish picture was a bit too blurry
Friday, 16 November 2007
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