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Dishwasher repair

The dishwasher started tripping out the RCD on the house so I pulled apart the door to see if water had leaked in to the control PCB. It was worse.

The mounting points lugs of the PCB have broken and all 4 corner screw mounts of the button panel are snapped
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Single use vacuum

We purchased a Vax upright bag less vacuum cleaner 3 years 2 months ago and it came with a 3 year manufacturers warranty. It is now broken.

The disassembled VAX VAU1200
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Starter motor repair

My daughter’s starter motor was playing up so after she purchased the wrong one I repaired her old one

Starter motor in pieces
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Acer laptop USB repair

We purchased an ex-school Acer laptop that the USB2 ports were not working.

Faulty Acer laptop

I pulled it apart and found that one USB socket was part of the motherboard and the other was a separate circuit with the power switch

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Missing ice cream

I was given the last bit of ice cream at church today. I took it to the car with all our other stuff we had to take home and left it on the front seat with my Wife to go back inside to grab a WiFi access point I had to get working. By the time I got back to the car it had all but evaporated, with my lovely wife looking at me questionly saying if I had wanted to eat it she should have been sitting in the drivers seat. I feel I have a strong argument for a divorce.

The only evidence of ice cream left

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Laptop battery re-cell

My power has tripped quite a few times recently due to some faulty electrical equipment and me doing some testing. One of the issues with this is that the laptop hosting this site has a dead battery so does not stay on or shutdown nicely with a power outage. A new battery is $35, so I thought I would give repairing this one a shot.

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Snake

Caught a White Crowned Snake slithering in the back door. Amy was not impressed.

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SanDisk thumb drive

Just a couple of photos of a 32GB SanDisk thumb drive I purchased today for $7.88. I chose this over the Toshiba for the same price as it came with a 5 year warranty as opposed to 1 year. I couldn’t find any datasheets on the chips as they are SanDisk branded.

USB and memory controller
820410PA1
J013EAW153
SDC1
CHINA
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Lighting to HDMI adaptor

I recently acquired a subscription to Disney+ and wanted to play it on our main TV. The newest device we have in the house is an iPhone 6s on which the app is installed, so I ordered and received a Lighting to HDMI adaptor off eBay.

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8-Pin-Lightning-to-HDMI-Digital-TV-AV-Adapter-Cable-For-iPhone-7-XS-MAX-6S-iPad/183848810436
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PEZ Codes

My kids got a PEZ refill packet and it came with a code for the PEZ Play app to unlock games. My kids liked the one game the code unlocked, so here is a collection of codes I found on the internet and my own.

Partially empty PEZ refill packet