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Post by dlwdwdvc on Nov 17, 2024 1:48:51 GMT -5
I think I have that same refrigerator .
Sometimes I wonder if it has a remote control for that digital display cause it just will make ice randomly.
Probably would help to read the booklet/ manual that came with it.
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Post by bakerworld on Nov 17, 2024 8:10:14 GMT -5
It's new car day. We got rid of our 2011 Sienna and bought 2024 RAV4. Since the kids have grown, we didn't need the minivan. The new car has so many bells and whistles. The whole Airplay/touchscreen thing is going to take a while to learn. Congratulations!! That is quite a difference in vehicle IMO. Last year we gave our large SUV to our eldest. It probably still isn't big enough but it's bigger. We went out to purchase a replacement car - used, as I have a problem forking over $$$$ for a car. We ended up with two 2021 medium SUVs. I've been looking at the Blazer at Test Track for a few years (DH's been looking at the 'other' one but won't buy it) so we found one on the used lot and purchased it but it does not have all the bells and whistles of the SUV we gave up. So we also purchase a smaller SUV with a lot of those. Frankly, I prefer the 'low end' Blazer with the gear shift because it's hard enough dealing with finding the start button much less changing gears the same way.  I think I have that same refrigerator . Sometimes I wonder if it has a remote control for that digital display cause it just will make ice randomly. Probably would help to read the booklet/ manual that came with it. As long as the food is cooled I have no need to 'test' out the actual temp. Maybe on our wine fridge...  |
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Post by brp on Nov 17, 2024 9:19:48 GMT -5
Our new fridge has a digital display for the temperature, factory default is 37. Well, I mean it says "37" on the thing. What's that mean? I assumed it to mean 37 degrees Fahrenheit. Imagine my disappointment when my scientific thermometer shows it to be more like 41. What! I was hoping that I could calibrate the display but I see no such option. Now I have to mentally keep track. So I set it to "35" and we will let that run a couple days to see where I end up. Just have to dial it in the old fashioned way. The freezer is set to "00" which I assume is meant to be zero F. My thermometers go down to -20c which is about -4f so I will be checking that one next. Now, the boxes are empty, having them loaded with mass could change things, we will see. Our fridge (a Samsung) was set to 37F and -2F. I have measured both independently, with the boxes reasonably full, and found it close enough. For the fridge, I put the thermometer toward the back as it will be slightly warmer in the front.
Cheers.
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Post by captjacksfamily on Nov 17, 2024 10:40:57 GMT -5
Comments on recent post
New Cars:
I have the Rav's more dressed-up cousin a Lexus. If you get use to all of the bells and whistles (cameras and sensors) the car is much safer. I almost always drive with the adaptive cruise and lane keeping on. You can't give it 100% trust but if you take the attitude that it is watching you and you're watching it hopefully everyone is safer.
Cast iron pans :
I have a couple but I wash mine which I know is pure evil to some. Anymore I only use them outside on the grill as I have been moving more to carbon steel, they cook about the same and are lighter. I was surprise to read you're using a gasoline stove, didn't know they made those and I am a bit surprised that it burns clean enough to cook on.
Fridge temps:
I seem to have more of a problem blocking air flow so the top shelf will freeze stuff than hold temp. During storms where power outages could be an issue I use the coin on Ice trick to make sure there hasn't been a thaw and refreeze. My wine cabinets track the temp and humid but since I only lay down my wines for 8 - 10 years in reality the AC room temp would probably be good enough.
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Post by johnb on Nov 17, 2024 10:44:47 GMT -5
It's new car day. We got rid of our 2011 Sienna and bought 2024 RAV4. Since the kids have grown, we didn't need the minivan. The new car has so many bells and whistles. The whole Airplay/touchscreen thing is going to take a while to learn. Congratulations!! That is quite a difference in vehicle IMO. Last year we gave our large SUV to our eldest. It probably still isn't big enough but it's bigger. We went out to purchase a replacement car - used, as I have a problem forking over $$$$ for a car. We ended up with two 2021 medium SUVs. I've been looking at the Blazer at Test Track for a few years (DH's been looking at the 'other' one but won't buy it) so we found one on the used lot and purchased it but it does not have all the bells and whistles of the SUV we gave up. So we also purchase a smaller SUV with a lot of those. Frankly, I prefer the 'low end' Blazer with the gear shift because it's hard enough dealing with finding the start button much less changing gears the same way. Definitely downsized, but that was the plan. We don't drive long distances anymore. Family are all over the country, so that's a flight. DD is no longer playing soccer, so no more soccer road trips. |
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Post by M2JRA on Nov 17, 2024 11:05:34 GMT -5
Congratulations!! That is quite a difference in vehicle IMO. Last year we gave our large SUV to our eldest. It probably still isn't big enough but it's bigger. We went out to purchase a replacement car - used, as I have a problem forking over $$$$ for a car. We ended up with two 2021 medium SUVs. I've been looking at the Blazer at Test Track for a few years (DH's been looking at the 'other' one but won't buy it) so we found one on the used lot and purchased it but it does not have all the bells and whistles of the SUV we gave up. So we also purchase a smaller SUV with a lot of those. Frankly, I prefer the 'low end' Blazer with the gear shift because it's hard enough dealing with finding the start button much less changing gears the same way. Definitely downsized, but that was the plan. We don't drive long distances anymore. Family are all over the country, so that's a flight. DD is no longer playing soccer, so no more soccer road trips. , it sounds like my family is in a similar situation to yours. We traded in our 2011 Town & Country minivan about a year-and-a-half ago and downsized but not toooo far. We still had two in college at that point who we need to move stuff in & out for, and we still want to be able to take 6 people fairly comfortably on occasion. Then again, we could see that pretty quickly we won't be traveling long-distances much as youngest DD now only has 1.5 years of college left and we keep our cars a long time. So, we went with a used Infiniti QX60 and I do love it. My DD (22) is looking for her first car and we went out looking/test-driving for the first time just yesterday. So far she likes the Rav4 and the Outlander Sport, but still has a lot of research to do. She wants a hatchback but doesn't want to actually pay for one, lol. She's currently driving a 2005 Camry that my mother gifted my girls when our oldest was entering her senior year of high school in 2017. My girls have been trading it around ever since, and though we've had to do regular maintenance and a few repairs (looking at you, Amelia, after that fender-bender on the GSP!), it is still hanging in there. My DD drives it 45-min each way to grad school & back 5 days a week, which is way more than my mom ever drove it when it was new! |
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Post by johnb on Nov 17, 2024 17:06:42 GMT -5
Definitely downsized, but that was the plan. We don't drive long distances anymore. Family are all over the country, so that's a flight. DD is no longer playing soccer, so no more soccer road trips. , it sounds like my family is in a similar situation to yours. We traded in our 2011 Town & Country minivan about a year-and-a-half ago and downsized but not toooo far. We still had two in college at that point who we need to move stuff in & out for, and we still want to be able to take 6 people fairly comfortably on occasion. Then again, we could see that pretty quickly we won't be traveling long-distances much as youngest DD now only has 1.5 years of college left and we keep our cars a long time. So, we went with a used Infiniti QX60 and I do love it. My DD (22) is looking for her first car and we went out looking/test-driving for the first time just yesterday. So far she likes the Rav4 and the Outlander Sport, but still has a lot of research to do. She wants a hatchback but doesn't want to actually pay for one, lol. She's currently driving a 2005 Camry that my mother gifted my girls when our oldest was entering her senior year of high school in 2017. My girls have been trading it around ever since, and though we've had to do regular maintenance and a few repairs (looking at you, Amelia, after that fender-bender on the GSP!), it is still hanging in there. My DD drives it 45-min each way to grad school & back 5 days a week, which is way more than my mom ever drove it when it was new! The Corolla Cross looks nice if she wants a crossover/hatchback. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 17, 2024 20:21:37 GMT -5
She's currently driving a 2005 Camry that my mother gifted my girls Ha ha my dream car. A bulletproof car from the tail-end of the "good ole days" that people don't want anymore because it isn't an suv. Do those transmission drain/fills and engine oil and keep it clean and you'll be sitting pretty. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 17, 2024 20:31:47 GMT -5
Our fridge (a Samsung) was set to 37F and -2F. I have measured both independently, with the boxes reasonably full, and found it close enough. For the fridge, I put the thermometer toward the back as it will be slightly warmer in the front. Good to know; I will check it in the back, didn't think of that. I was only moving it between the shelves, but in the center. Mine is empty at the moment, so who knows what will happen when I load it. When will that be? |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 17, 2024 20:44:25 GMT -5
Cast iron pans : I have a couple but I wash mine which I know is pure evil to some. Anymore I only use them outside on the grill as I have been moving more to carbon steel, they cook about the same and are lighter. I was surprise to read you're using a gasoline stove, didn't know they made those and I am a bit surprised that it burns clean enough to cook on. "Gasoline stove" it is a green suitcase-style camping stove, to be used outside. People slightly younger than me know them as propane fired; people slightly older than me know them as "Coleman fuel" fired, which is basically clean gasoline. If you've ever noticed the smell in the air when walking into the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom, it is the smell put off by the flaming torch guy, very similar to naphtha aka Zippo fuel. My camping stove makes a similar smell. You may like this: My research on cast iron shows that washing cast iron isn't what is used to be. In the olden days, when cast iron was everywhere, "soap" was real soap made by treating fat with lye (see the movie Fight Club). These days, what we call "soap" is more of a synthetic grease solvent, no lye involved. This makes it relatively safe to use on cast iron pans as long as you don't go crazy. I wash mine gently every time I use it. If I don't, it makes the scrambled eggs yucky and grey which nobody wants. I would like to hear more about this "coin on ice" thing you mentioned for power outages. We don't get power outages like we used to because they buried our power lines behind our house a couple years ago, but for years, we would lose power once or twice a winter when a tree went down on the lines. Our properties back up to the woods. No wonder the power company finally decided to bury the lines. |
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 17, 2024 20:58:31 GMT -5
 New front door! My sister texts me, complaining about how her xmas lights don't match or something. I'm like "I'm happy to have a front door that closes, three cars that are road worthy, and I'm not sick" so everyone's priorities are different I guess. Any experts, go ahead and chime in. We bought a good door and it seems to have some kind of NASA-approved zero-friction hinges. So much so, that I lined the hinge-side up with our 1957 house (based on appearance) and the thing wants to swing wide open. Like a ghost is opening the door. I know this is because it isn't plumb. I've been working on this, and I can't say it is better...I got it to a position where it doesn't swing too much but then it is out like an eighth or more (front to back) which I guess I can account for in trim but it bothers me. I'm contemplating making the hinges tighter on purpose, or getting spring hinges. I finally decided to give up for the day and put the deadbolt in it so I can lock it. Hooray! |
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Post by M2JRA on Nov 18, 2024 10:04:59 GMT -5
Piggybacking on Adelard's front door question for the door-hanging experts, here's another one:
I'm looking to switch an interior door from opening away from me to opening toward me. I want to keep it hinged on the right, but want to open it by pulling towards me rather than pushing away from me. (I hope this makes sense.) What is the easiest way to do this for folks who are not very DIY savvy? Should we remove the moulding and take the whole door out, replacing with a new prehung door, and then putting the moulding back up (if we can remove it intact)? I don't want to get into beveling out for all the hardware on the existing frame. What's the best way to accomplish what I'm looking to do with the least amount of effort? :-)
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Nov 18, 2024 15:43:29 GMT -5
Piggybacking on Adelard's front door question for the door-hanging experts, here's another one: I'm looking to switch an interior door from opening away from me to opening toward me. I want to keep it hinged on the right, but want to open it by pulling towards me rather than pushing away from me. (I hope this makes sense.) What is the easiest way to do this for folks who are not very DIY savvy? Should we remove the moulding and take the whole door out, replacing with a new prehung door, and then putting the moulding back up (if we can remove it intact)? I don't want to get into beveling out for all the hardware on the existing frame. What's the best way to accomplish what I'm looking to do with the least amount of effort? :-) There are ways to ghetto hack that but for your cleanest and least problematic end result, your best bet would be to get a new prehung door like you said.
You say "folks who are not very DIY savvy" but you already know that you would be taking off the trim and removing the old door, frame and all. If your house is somewhat modern (70s, 80s etc) everything should be standard sizes and stuff. There are plenty of youtube videos you could watch, or simple entry-level articles on like FamilyHandyman .com or This Old House or Bob Vila. Those Family Handyman magazines make everything very approachable. You might want to punch that up first and see if it looks like something you could tackle. Maybe you would see their pictures and a couple videos and say "That doesn't look too bad."
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Post by dlwdwdvc on Nov 18, 2024 16:43:54 GMT -5
Another thing to keep maintained for Property inspection if you ever sell your house in Florida …Thank you ,governor…Just part of the changes to DVC monthly meetings governance that just went into affect….
My garage door maintenance inspection guy alerted me to keep a yearly inspection .
If for some reason I had to replace garage door or the metal railings on back wall bolted to plasterboard or whatever that interior/exterior Wall is made of..
Would require a complete rebuild of that wall to make it sturdier which would also affect the other 3 townhouses attached to my building … We would all have to rebuild that wall to Pass Code if we ever planned to sell.
I just cleaned the entire railings because the auto up&down was starting to act wonky.
Did not take very long.
I need to buy silicone spray or go to hardware Do Not use WD40 on windows , etc…
Must use silicone spray unless there is something better on the market.
Appreciate if anybody knows so I’m not wandering around ACE Hardware.
Funny how State of Florida allows anybody to do almost anything but bolt garage door to the wall in houses built before this year… Makes me really worry about DVC governance and state of Florida for condos & townhomes since that huge collapse in Miami .
Florida does not want a repeat of all those legal issues ever again …
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Post by captjacksfamily on Nov 19, 2024 9:50:33 GMT -5
Cast iron pans : I have a couple but I wash mine which I know is pure evil to some. Anymore I only use them outside on the grill as I have been moving more to carbon steel, they cook about the same and are lighter. I was surprise to read you're using a gasoline stove, didn't know they made those and I am a bit surprised that it burns clean enough to cook on. "Gasoline stove" it is a green suitcase-style camping stove, to be used outside. People slightly younger than me know them as propane fired; people slightly older than me know them as "Coleman fuel" fired, which is basically clean gasoline. If you've ever noticed the smell in the air when walking into the Lion King show at Animal Kingdom, it is the smell put off by the flaming torch guy, very similar to naphtha aka Zippo fuel. My camping stove makes a similar smell. You may like this: My research on cast iron shows that washing cast iron isn't what is used to be. In the olden days, when cast iron was everywhere, "soap" was real soap made by treating fat with lye (see the movie Fight Club). These days, what we call "soap" is more of a synthetic grease solvent, no lye involved. This makes it relatively safe to use on cast iron pans as long as you don't go crazy. I wash mine gently every time I use it. If I don't, it makes the scrambled eggs yucky and grey which nobody wants. I would like to hear more about this "coin on ice" thing you mentioned for power outages. We don't get power outages like we used to because they buried our power lines behind our house a couple years ago, but for years, we would lose power once or twice a winter when a tree went down on the lines. Our properties back up to the woods. No wonder the power company finally decided to bury the lines. We always called the fuel for those stoves "white gas" but I did have to google it see what the difference was: "White gas is a highly refined naphtha-based fuel with low benzene content. Gasoline is a mixture of hydrocarbons, with small amounts of impurities like sulfur and nitrogen." True about the soap but there are more than a few people out there that refuse to use any soap on the CI pans. Coin on ice is something we do when we are going to be gone for several days. Put a glass filled with water in the freezer, once the water is frozen put a coin (or any item) on the ice. If the coin is below the ice when you come home you know the freezer was off long enough for the freezer to defrost and then came back on and refroze the ice. These days there are probably easier ways to know but this works. As far as your door goes, you may want to look up Miami Hurricane doors because they open out instead of in to help prevent the doors from blowing open in hurricanes. |
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