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Web site keeps track of Black Friday deaths and injuries!
Black Friday shopping can be hazardous to your health. One web site is keeping score.
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China Built A Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier Made Of Concrete
China and India might be buying weapons like Americans are buying discounted Nintendos, but this particular Chinese warship won’t be threatening the Japanese islands anytime soon because, though it’s a full-sized Nimitz-Class Aircraft carrier, it’s made entirely of concrete.
Shockingly given the huge array of stuff they stock, the building looks surprisingly small from the outside but they have provided me with parts for everything from my lawnmower to my furnace to my clothes dryer to the dishwasher. ?
Appliance Parts, Lawn Mower Parts, Heating & Cooling Parts. 365 day returns.
One million parts for appliances, lawn mowers, furnaces, and 40 other household products ship the same day. Call 800-269-2609 from 7 a.m. to midnight.
I did however make one brief excursion today to visit the folks RepairClinic.com for a pressure switch for the dishwasher. Unfortunately this crapped out yesterday during one of the few days a year that they are closed. I turned on the dishwasher to do a load before Jules started on Thanksgiving dinner only find that the drain pump was running but it never filled with water.
After some googling I traced the problem to either the float switch or pressure switch. After opening up the side of the dishwasher and checking the electrical switches I found them fine and it was actually a float within the switch that was contaminated and stuck. One $32 part and about 20 minutes of labor later, the dishwasher was running through a cycle.
Had I not been the type of person that prefers to fix things myself whenever possible, this would easily have been a $200-250 service call.
Now if only this had occurred 24 hours later or sooner, Max and I could have avoided half a dozen sinkloads full of handwashing yesterday. ?
