The repairman for your broken refrigerator also works on TVs and has you scheduled for the day after the cops pull you kicking and screaming out of your Motel 6.
I just got done going into one of my "junk" piles in my garage and retrieved an old light on/off pull chain switch that I had salvaged from somewhere or other and used it to replace the bad switch on my banker's lamp that I have on my desk. The old switch had been bad for years and I had just screwed it in and out to turn it on and off. It got so corroded that the center post was black and not allowing continuity. Working properly now.
Yesterday, I replaced my daughter's gas water heater. A week or so ago I replaced her thermostat. A few weeks before that I removed all the Freon in her A/C, silver soldered in a new liquid line enhancement-drier, evacuated the system and recharged the system with new Freon. It had been running at a condensing temperature of 50 degrees above ambient with a high amp draw. It condensed at 13 degrees over ambient and dropped several amps (at 240 volts) when I finished. Someone had either not pulled a vacuum on the system when installed or mixed r410A with R22.
Having just had a colonoscopy and having to have gone through what they politely call "prep", let me just say that, should I ever have another, I will be buying a box of adult diapers first.
