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Totally Invisible Wireless Charging DIY project

August 21, 2019

So at this point everyone has probably seen
or heard of wireless charging or Qi charging. Some phones are naturally capable of doing
wireless charging like the Galaxy S6 Edge or Nexus 6. You can see the phone light up
as soon as it makes a connection with the pad. Some phones require a special back to
allow it to charge wirelessly like the Note 4 or the Galaxy S5. Eventually Apple will
also catch up to modern technology. Normally this charging pad is always visible on your
nightstand or desk, but today I’m going to hide mine permanently. All the parts I
use for this project are linked in the video description below. In order to hide it I need
to see that the Qi pad is capable of charging through a layer of wood. Taking wooden shims,
I can slowly adjust the distance of the phone from the charging pad. The phone will kick
on with about 3/16ths inches of wood between it and the pad, but will charge pretty consistently
with 1/8th inch of wood. Now I just need to make my desk 1/8th inch thick. We want to
get as thin as possible without ripping through the top of my desk. I added some tape to the
top of the desk to help protect from the torque of the router. I screwed some metal latches
into place to hold the charger. I cleaned up the charging pad cable and added a few
pennies to the charger so it would be tight up against the top of the desk. You can always
make yours look less “Jerry-rigged” if you want :). Speaking of which you should
hit that subscribe button if you haven’t already. And it works. Now I’ll never have
to plug in my phone while I’m working. It can just sit right there on the top of my
desk and charge wirelessly. If you were wondering, the charging pad does charge through glass
as well and doesn’t look half bad with a decent braided cable. I will link everything
I used in this video in the video description below. Thanks a ton for watching! Follow me
socially for sneak peeks at my other projects. Hope to see you around!

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I Ranked All Car Brands from Worst to Best

August 21, 2019

rev your engines
today I’m going to talk about the ten worse and best car
manufacturers that sell cars in the United States but I’m not going to
include the European companies because I don’t advise anybody to buy those for
various reasons I’m talking about all the others now I’m gonna start with the
worst ones and number one as the worst manufacturer of car sold in the United
States its Fiat Chrysler no surprise there Chrysler had low quality problems to
begin with it fooled the Germans when they were damla Chrysler the Germans
lost billions I’m at the owner they dump them and then Fiat bottomed out well
it’s like going from the frying pan into the fire
having Chrysler and Fiat merged now Fiat itself left the United States decades
ago and it came back but look how horrid their car sales are going now the actual
Fiat brand in the United States sold less than a thousand vehicles in June of 2019
fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me well the Americans don’t
want to be shamed so they’re not buying these Fiat but of course the Fiat
technology is in many of these Chrysler cars the engines the transmissions and a
lot of it is pure garbage I’ve had customers who bought brand-new once the
engines blew up at 40,000 miles the transformations never even shifted right
in the first place they’re just terrible vehicles and I
would advise to stay far away from them so if you only listen to one thing that
I say make sure that you don’t buy a Fiat Chrysler product if you value your
money now the second worst vehicles as far as I’m concerned our GM vehicles it
doesn’t matter if you come GM GMC Cadillac whatever they’re all owned by
General Motors I remember when I was a kid dad a song what’s good for General
Motors is good for the USA what’s a good thing that that’s not a truism anymore
because if the country was in the same shape as General Motors we’d be in dire
straits then I learned to drive on a Chevy Biscayne was like a boat you
didn’t drive it you sailed it down the road but it was a pretty bulletproof
vehicle it ran and ran and ran but it was in Niagara Falls New York so
everything rust there and eventually the body rusted out but we saw the tool
gauger in a junkyard he took the engine out and put it in his
junkyard truck that he went around picking up junk with and drove us for
years and years the engine kept going but sadly if you
jumped it today General Motors products just aren’t what they used to be their
quality control is there moving a lot of production to China it’ll move it all
over there I don’t know get better quality control but to stop there make
it over here many of my customers that had GM products told me they will never
buy another one if they bought one that was made in the last eight ten years
especially we were talking about small or cars GM never really made very well
built small cars overall the company just doesn’t show that they’re making
quality products anymore I’d stay away from them to the number three on the
list is Nissan they kind of merged were taken over by Renault a couple decades
ago not for me it’s a sad case because when I was young they were called
Datsuns and they were little cars that could run forever
then they came out with the sports cars the 240 Z’s and they were great sports
cars after they merged with Renault and yeah the early 2000 ones they could be
okay that was after the merger but you go 2006 or above there you’re making a
lot of junk I had customers with them 40,000 miles the mufflers fall off
I mean that’s a simple thing if they can’t even weld a muffler in a car
correctly think what they’re going with the rest of the cars I mean horrible
transmissions and they make a lot of CVT transmissions to just fall apart I see
more Nissan’s with CVT is going out and then people find out that hey it’s gonna
cost me six eight thousand dollars to put another transmission in and the cars
worth three or four and they just junk the car so stay away from Nissan if you
value your money the number four on my list Kia I would not buy a Kia
not if you’re cheaper you want to save some money they can be okay cars if you
don’t drive more than a hundred thousand miles or keep more than six or eight
years just keep your mind they don’t have the quality and you’re not saving
all that much money I did a video the other day and I showed that back in 2008
if you got a Kia SUV $6,000 cheaper than the rare for SUV and even though the
quality was a lot I worked on one the other day it had
50,000 miles in the air-conditioning had already broken the compressor went out
on it but if you compare a 2019 Kia SUV to the 302 rav4 you were saving less
than two thousand dollars buying a Kia and for that small amount of money hey
I’d buy the Toyota every time if you went a long lasting cart it doesn’t give
me any troubles you don’t buy a Kia, now the last manufacturer and I wouldn’t buy
a car from I rate as low is mitsubishi they’ve always been cheaper made cars
many of my customers with Mitsubishi’s at an
early age they burned a lot of oil I don’t know why they can’t learn from
history they’ve always had cheap piston rings they just burn oil as they age go
back three decades ago I had a customer who wanted blue smoke looked like they
were fumigating for mosquitos driving down the road often you can only get
parts at the dealer where the prices are extremely high and a lot of people don’t
know how to work on them so you go to the dealer you’re gonna pay outrageous
prices to get them fixed so even though they’re cheaper to buy they can be much
more expensive to fix and really there’s so much choice these days and decent
vehicles why would you go and try to save a little bit of money get anyone
that’s a lot cheaper made the piston rings wear out the engines burn oil now
yeah they do cost less that’s how they sell them you can get a Mitsubishi
Mirage they started like $13,000 that said I’ve had customers that were happy
with them for a while they don’t fall apart as soon as you buy them and since
they’re a cheaper car people always want to buy something that cost less but if
you’re really value your money over time it’d be better off buying a used Toyota
or use Honda then you would be buying a brand new Mitsubishi also probably last
two to three times as long as you keep them a long time, now here comes the five
best ones number five is Subaru which might
surprise you cuz I generally tell people I’m not a Subaru fan I’m not a Subaru
fan but lately they’ve been making some interesting engine designs if you live
in a snowy area the system in a Subaru is pretty much
one of the best systems out there there are the ones that really want whole-hog
I’m all wheel and four-wheel drive systems I got that down pat you live
where there’s a lot of snow but Subaru may not be a bad idea I know in the past
that head gasket problems their automatic transmissions or garbage I
still tell people today if you really have a choice the Subaru get a standard
transmission no number four is Mazda now I’m not a big miles to fan myself but
there are reasons you could buy a ma so let’s say you want a little cute sports
car you can’t beat the Mazda Miata for the money there are excellent cars
lately my customers with Mazdas they’ve been reasonably happy with the vehicles
they make some decent cars of various types and they’re pretty dependable
vehicles now number three on my list of the better made car is ford and I know people
might say oh it’s an American manufacturer well their quality has gone
up and they’re more or less starting to specialize here in the United States
they’re pretty much given up on a car market they’re only gonna be making
Mustangs and they’re gonna be stressing pickup trucks and SUVs which as far as
I’m concerned is a smart move on for their smaller cars they weren’t that
well made they had problems so I Ford’s sticking to what they do best
trucky type things hey I put them number three on the list, and number two on the
list is Honda, Honda actually makes the best engines in the world their engines
are even better than Toyotas Honda has less engine related failures on their
vehicles than even Toyota Honda’s one on the list for engines and Toyota’s number
two and just like Toyota they have a wide range of vehicles you can buy and
here again I’m just have really good resale values because they’re generally
really well built cars but as they’re always warned people you got to do a
little research on anything because some of the newer Honda’s that have the GDI
turbocharged engines have an oil dilution problem I wouldn’t buy one of
those until they ironed it out but that’s not often that honda
make big mistakes, and of course Toyota is the best car manufacturer period
people go whine all they want say oh they’re not as quality as they used to
be well nothing is but they’re still better than all the rest they hold up
yeah you’re gonna pay more for one but there’s the market for you Toyota’s have
insanely high resale values why because people know they’re good the market
isn’t gonna lie on that if cars are crappy like Jaguars check their resale
value, I get customers if they’re crazy enough they can buy a
beautiful look and use Jaguar that’s seven or eight years old for a couple of
grand, so now you know the bottom five and the top five car manufacturers
in the United States that you can buy, so if you never want to miss another one
of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell

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Here’s Why New Toyotas Suck

August 21, 2019

rev up your engines
JJ says all new cars are ticking time bombs so saying get a Toyota
doesn’t mean what it used to me yes that is true the complexity that’s in modern
cars getting your front end aligned can cause problems and then you have to have
that system reset yes they’re very complicated but still Toyota makes the
best cars for the money for what you’re gonna get
if they’re a ticking time bomb because of all this technology yes but something
like your adaptive cruise control doesn’t work or something that’s what
might happen in Toyota let’s say you got a Fiat Chrysler well hey there the
engine might explode the transmission might explode fall apart and leave you
with a car you can’t even drive over the years I got customers with old Toyota’s
old Honda’s even old Fords and sometimes lots of things are broken but they still
go down the road you could drive them so maybe I thought we’re gonna be able to
hope for anymore, doctor ankle says what are your thought on a Nissan 350z
or Infiniti g35 for a first car they have very low resale value you
lose a lot of money but they can be perfectly fine Cars the problem of
those cars our people beat the heck out of them to buy them plus if they’re made
after the Nissan Renault merger the quality went downhill I would never buy
one of those used with eighty or ninety thousand miles because it’s probably on
its last legs and what you expect of the vehicle because they are extremely
fast fun cars to drive but on the other end I gotta fix these things as the age
and often when I show the customer what’s wrong or what it’s gonna cost to
get rid of the car cuz they’ll say I don’t want to
have spent five grand on that thing so they don’t so you don’t pay a lot of
money for used one I wouldn’t even buy a used one tell you the truth, skater
stance says can heat effect my car battery do you need to drive it to charge it
sometimes if you don’t drive it much yes the worst thing for batteries are
extreme heat and extreme cold the extreme heat can just make them overheat
wear out faster and the extreme cold they lose a certain percentage of their
charging ability when they’re cold you don’t drive it much yeah you’d want to
recharge it every once in a while because they’re made for car batteries
to start the car recharge start the car recharge if they just sit
they don’t store it all that well that’s why people that buy both
they get those deep-cycle ones because maybe they are only using the boat 15 20
times a year and it’s just sitting there so you need a deep cycle battery that
costs more and can last longer for that cars batteries or make to start recharge
start recharge so if you don’t drive it much yeah you’d want to charge it up
every once in a while, big meet says can I swap out of 2.7 for 3.5 on a
Dodge Charger 06 anything could be done if you’ve got time and money and
patience but realize that your modern cars are all around the engine and the
transmission computer software sensors and it’s not like when I was a kid that
you could take any other engine out pretty much swap it in and it would go
you maybe you changed the carburetor sometimes you have to change the
carburetor but today it’s an involved job and I have more problems with people
bringing me a car that doesn’t run right and I’ll say ok what’s going on here
something looks weird and I’ll say well we put a 7 year old newer engine in the
car I said you can’t do that you can’t unless you know a pro who can reprogram
computers and even then sometimes it won’t work right with the software and
you just have to start from scratch so your best to stick with stock with any
modern car and not mess around with putting other engines in them cuz I see
the other end when you try to fix them in and nobody can fix them, Steve Jones
would you buy an older honda cr-v with 150,000 miles for about 3 grand well I
tried to pay less but those thing can last forever
I got a customer the one and she drove it from Houston where out to West Texas
to Big Bend and she was driving on 100 something miles now are some of the way
now the speed limits like 85 when you get out there so people do drive fast
and I mean that old thing at Creek and it would shrink made it down back yeah
those things are pretty well made those older ones I would try to pay less but
they could run an awful long time they were pretty solid built vehicles, Jay
Anderson says what are your thoughts on her labelling the 2013 Shelby gt500
drivetrain that was a really over engineered car because it can go over
200 miles an hour that’s said if you drive it over 200 miles a lot it’s gonna
wear out there’s no if ands or buts it’s the same thing with let’s take a good
Japanese motorcycle you buy Suzuki GSXR 750 kicks are right there screamers they
can go really fast they’re so over to you engineer if you
only drive a hundred miles an hour and those things it might last forever if
you know right but if you drive the limit of the vehicle yeah it’s gonna
wear out faster so it depends on how you take care of it
if you had that Shelby and let’s say you rarely drove over 100 miles an hour that
thing will probably last forever but if you push it as hard as you can of course
like anything else it’s gonna wear out, odds guy says I think Toyota should get scotty
a brand new top of the range Lexus for PR
work I’m sure Toyota’s watching well I don’t know if they’re watching but to
tell you the truth my wife likes her 2002 es300 lexus that I paid 3 grand
for with 60,000 miles I showed her some of the new ones she says I wouldn’t be
seen dead in one of those with those crazy mouths they have in the front
she actually likes your car better hey it’s only got 77,000 miles on it might
be the last car we ever buy unless it gets wrecked or something,
she wouldn’t even drive it she said she thinks they’re ugly she wouldn’t want
one the last one she would want was one that’s five or eight years old to still
have the nice front didn’t have that horrible scowling piece of junk that
these ridiculous designers are working on, so if you never want to miss another
one of my new car repair videos remember to ring that Bell

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Here’s Why Your Car Runs Like Crap

August 21, 2019

rev up your engines
Sam is Good says my 2001 jeep cranks but it won’t start and it backfires it’s
been running kind of poor lately anyway alright could be a thousand different
things you know you gotta always do the simple thing spark plugs make sure the
air filters not clogged make sure that the fuel filter isn’t clogged up it’s an
01 so it’s an old vehicle and here’s what I
always tell people to do if they check the simple things and it still doesn’t
take the spark plugs out it’s a six-cylinder easy take all six of them
out get a compression test or you can buy one of those autozone ones for 29
bucks or ebay whatever check all the compression dry then get a tablespoon of
oil and put it in each cylinder for one at a time put it in one then redo the
compression that’s a wet compression so you’ll have readings for the dry and a
wet and if you find that the wet compression is way way higher than the
dry the piston rings weren’t out in your engine shop because I did one of those
last year hey the compression was so low and the Rings were so worn out I told
him I said your engine’s just flat worn out and in that guy’s case ah he said I
don’t wanna rebuild this junky thing but I’m gonna drive it around so he went
to a junkyard got a used engine installed for like 800 bucks
parts and labor and he was happy it ran okay when he got it back, Ruska Stevie
says Scotty how do you properly ask the mechanic to go and check out a used car
at a dealership I’ve been doing that for years when you go to the dealership you
tell the dealership you’re bringing it to your mechanic that’s the end of that
you do not have the mechanic go to the dealership he doesn’t have those
equipment to take it there any honest dealership will bring the car to you
your mechanic checks it out I have that all the time sometimes
they make one of the salesmen come with them sometimes they
don’t you know you never know one way or another what they’re gonna let you do
but they gotta let you take that car to your mechanic or go somewhere else
that’s just the way that it goes now if you deal with a private individual and
your mechanics eight hundred miles away well that’s gonna be a hard thing but
even their most private individuals will come with you to the mechanic and let
check it out if they don’t look somewhere else
the madman says why are SUV so absurdly popular I went to the grocery store no
less than four rav4s and three CRVs they’re all over the place they’re
convenient for people when I was a kid the big thing with station wagons we had
Ford station wagon with Chevy station those things we’re great and then when I
was a young father we had a Toyota Camry station wagon one of the best cars we
ever had I bought it used for a couple of grand drove the heck out of it sold
it for $1,500 ten years later I mean station wagons are great but hardly anyone is
making station wagon where they want to make SUVs instead and people like them and of
course when it comes to popularity realize that humans are quite a bit like
sheep they follow each other around so if everybody has SUVs they all feel like
oh the next door neighbor has an SUV and the wife I have to have an SUV too so a lot
of it you know as a cultural thing but they
are handy vehicles I mean you can get a bunch of people and I got four doors but
then I have a big hands-free can throw a bunch of stuff in so they are actually
relatively handy devices but I mean so were the station wagons in a station
wagons had even bigger trunks on them you could sleep in them you could get
ten kids in there but days the station wagon seemed to passed us all by, Willie
Smith Ten says I got an 06 Ford f-150 the engines running poorly and it’s got
cylinder number five misfire and ignition coil primary secondary circuit
codes what you want to do is it’s saying number five is misfiring take the
coil on plug somebody for number five put it on number one and put the one on
number five and drive it and if it switches and now has a misfire on number
one you know it’s the coil of plug assembly just replace it simple thing to
do right now let’s say you do that and it doesn’t and it stays exactly the same
well I just fixed one of those a month ago and it turns out that it was a short
in the computer now you’re gonna have a hard time figuring that out I had to get
up my oscilloscope and measure stuff and it turns out that the computer circuit
that drove the number five was shorting out I’d see drops in the oscilloscope
readings and I had to replace the main computer for the vehicle and that was a
lot of money but if you switch the coils first pray it moves if it moves and you
know the coils bad it’s an easy test that you can do I always try the simple
things first and then work your way into more complex ones, new car guys I got
an 07 PT Cruiser AC compressor keeps cutting in on and off the
compressors good and there’s no air in the system all right if they cut it off
you got to put pressure gauges on the low side in the high side
watch them if you see that the high side pressure keeps going up high then it
shuts off then up high and then it shuts off you got a restriction somewhere in
the system that builds the pressure too high and then the switch turns it off
could be a bad expansion valve a crushed line clogged condenser could be lots of
things but you have to put both the low side and high side gauges to see what’s
going on is it restricted on a high side or the low side are the pressures right
you got to do all that you can’t just guess cuz once you have those gauges on
then you can get a really good analysis of what the system is doing is building
up pressure because or say there’s problem in the low side if the low side
goes into suction it’ll turn it on and off too and then when it builds up it
starts talking and when it goes into suction and negative pressure it’ll turn
it off same thing you got to do a pressure test first, back bugs345 why
do my lights randomly turn on at night when a car is off I got a Hyundai Accent
2008 I’m thinking you got a burglar alarm problem and it’s turning the lights on
and off so what you need to do is first thing if you got a burglar on relay or a
fuse take it out at night and if it stops doing it you know
there’s a problem the bird alarm system if it’s an aftermarket burglar alarm
system just disconnected if it’s the factory system though you’re gonna have
to pay a mechanic who’s got a Hyundai dealer scan tool to work on the burglar
alarm system because it’s part of the main computer you can’t just unplug it
it doesn’t work that way it’s a lot more complicated but most of the time that is
alarm system unless you’ve got weird friends that are sneaking and turn your
lights on the middle night just to freak the heck out of you, so if you never want
to miss another one of my new car repair videos, remember to ring that Bell

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Laptop Key Repair When Key Popped Off Keyboard

August 21, 2019

– [Narrator] Alright, if you happen to have a key that pops off your keyboard. This is a Dell Inspiron computer. I don’t even know if I say
Inspiron correctly or not, but you get the idea. If you happen to have a key
that pops off, such as this, I managed to pop this one off myself, though I’ve had my little children pop keys off a computer a number of times. It can be a little bit
of a pain to put back on, if you’re in luck, the little spring assembly
plastic piece here will not have been damaged when the key popped off,
it’s quite frequent for them not to be damaged so there’s
a good chance you’re okay. On the bottom of the key, you’ll find a couple of tabs, kind of
like a C clamp, like that. You’ll also find some that are
a little different looking. You want to properly align the four connection points, and in case, these two
tabs line up very good, obviously you also get
that same idea by the direction of the key
itself, and the label on it. To do this, we’ll be taking
the end that slides in, put that inside, we’re
gonna try slide it over, and then push it back in place like that, and voila, the key is replaced, and away you go.

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Homemade Desktop and workspace – under $20 DIY (4K)

August 21, 2019

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How to Replace the Speakers | HP ProBook 450, 455, 470 G4 Notebook PC

August 21, 2019

Before you begin: Remove the service cover, hard disk drive assembly, optical drive, keyboard, and top cover. Removal Important: Make careful note of the routing of the speaker cable for later replacement. Remove the speaker cable from the routing channel on the top cover. Remove the two 3.5 mm P1 Phillips broad-head screws that secure the speakers to the top cover. Remove the speakers from the alignment pins and retention tabs on the top cover. Reverse this procedure to install the speakers.

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Moto G4 Teardown – Screen Replacement – Repair Video

August 20, 2019

The Moto G4, a solid mid-level device that
passed my durability test. It’s time to take it apart and see what
it’s made of. I have an unopened G5 on my desk, but life
would not be complete without a tear down of its older sibling first. We can test the G5 tomorrow. Let’s get started. [Intro] It’s a pleasant change from when I finally
tear down a device that isn’t glued shut. The back panel is removable, but that only
gives you access to the SIM and SD card trays, everything else is still hidden under 19 d4
screws surrounding that back plastic panel. At this point we can pretty safely assume
that the more screws the phone has, the more durable it’s going to be. There’s one ribbon we need to disconnect
before lifting off that back panel; it’s under this rubber tab. The little ribbon that unsnaps goes to the
camera sensor and flash. The two gold tabs on the opposite side go
to the earpiece. I’ll show you that in just a second. Now this tape does not come off in one piece,
so if you do swap out your screen or battery, it’s going to be easy to tell that someone
has been inside of your phone. The battery connector is a pretty flimsy little
two-prong plug. You don’t see this type of connector very
often anymore. The battery, unfortunately, does not have
any magic pull tabs either. Instead it requires a bit of aggressive negotiation. I’m using that flat side of my metal pry
tool, taking special care not to puncture anything since a punctured battery would be
the end of your phone. This guy is a 3000 milliamp hour which is
actually the same size as the new Galaxy S8…interesting. The eccentric rotating mass vibrator motor
is over here at the bottom of the phone. With the same type of connector that we saw
the battery using. It’s tucked under this black little rubber
blanket that also covers the non-modular micro USB charging port. There are two more T4 screws holding down
the motherboard. Some phone manufacturers, who I won’t name,
seem to be ashamed of their headphone jack. But we have Motorola over here rolling out
the red carpet on top of theirs. Thumbs up for the red decorations, Motorola. It’s actually got a really interesting design
– this headphone jack. It easily pulls out, leaving a ribbon with
gold contact pads inside the little hole in the frame…totally modular. Before the motherboard can lift out of the
screen frame, I’ll disconnect the screen ribbon; it’s under the copper tape. And we have the last little ribbon for the
headphone jack up here at the top. I’ll lift up the latch connector and slip
it out with my tweezers. Before we look at the screen, let’s talk
about the main board, specifically the cameras. The front camera has a little bit of gold
tape covering the latch connector. I’ll set that off to the side next to the
water damage indicator. Once that tape is off, the latch will lift
up unlocking the front camera and it can slip out and away from the motherboard. The rear camera is on the other side. It has the same type of latch connector that
we’ve seen all over this phone. And then both cameras are free. The camera on the left is the larger 13 megapixel
camera. This camera only shoots in 1080p, but since
most TVs and computers are still displaying 1080, that’s fine for the moment. It’s just not future proof. The iPhone 6 only shoots in 1080p as well
and a lot of people are still using those phones. The front facing camera is 5 megapixels. Neither of them have optical image stabilization. Now remember that huge speaker grill on the
front of the phone? This is pretty interesting actually. Take a look at this tiny speaker back here. Talk about compensating. I’ll rip out the extremely large speaker
grill material so we can see exactly what’s going on. There are a few screw holes, but the speaker
is literally only shooting out of that far left side of the grill. Such a strange placement. It’s not even in the center. It’s such a small speaker for such a large
hole. Maybe the sound is supposed to echo down that
chamber or something. Kind of weird. Either way, this is the replacement screen
now. And like always I’ll be including replacement
parts in the video description. Luckily the Moto G4 screens are pretty cheap
now. You might need to separate the old LCD from
the frame. Just use some heat to soften the glue, remove
it, and then reuse the frame for your next screen. Replacement screens should come with adhesive
preinstalled. Once you get the new screen into the frame,
the rest of the assembly is pretty simple. I’ll tuck that earpiece back into the frame. Then the motherboard can literally click down
into place. Make sure the external power and volume buttons
are lined up with the motherboard or you’ll have problems later on. New screen gets clicked in with the metallic
tape over the top of the connector. Then the headphone jack ribbon can get slipped
into the little slot and locked down with the little latch. The vibrator motor needs to be sitting into
the frame, along with the two silver T4 head screws that go into the two holes on the motherboard. Lay out the red carpet for this headphone
jack – couldn’t agree more. And finally the battery goes in with its little
flimsy motherboard connector. Make sure to tuck the black and red wire underneath
the plastic brackets right there alongside the battery. The back plastic slides on, then you can clip
the flash ribbon connector into place. And 19 screws later I’ll toss the exterior
back panel on the phone and hear is satisfyingly snap all around the back. And it’s over. The phone is back together and fully functional. You can join me tomorrow for the durability
test of the Moto G5. We’ll see if the new metal design holds
up as good as its plastic sibling. And check it out – I just did a whole repair
video without once saying the word “Lego” …and… never mind. Thanks for watching. I’ll see you around.

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Organize hardware in this cubby hole storage cabinet. Made from recycled wood.

August 20, 2019

Three most common resolutions for 2015: Lose weight, get organized and Microjig Maker of the GRR-RIPPER Work safer, work smarter. One of the things I really like about having
a workshop is that it’s constantly changing. I’m always adapting it to suit my needs as
they change. I’ve been in this space for 14 years and it looks totally different now than it
did in 2001. Floor space seems to always be at a premium. And while I’ve always liked having this enormous 4 foot by 8 foot workbench in the center of
my shop it just doesn’t leave me enough room to work
around. So one of the things I’m going to do is downsize this workbench. But before I get started on that, I want to try and organize this, which has been a mess for a long time. I’ll admit, I built this hutch because I thought
it looked cool to have all these tools hanging on the wall. But actually, it’s not that practical because I only use a few of those tools. I don’t need them all on display. What I do like about this are all of these cubby holes here that I can store boxes of screws and glue and all sorts of
things. So I just want to expand on that more than
anything. Wow, this seems a lot bigger now that it’s
out here than when it was on the wall. Now I can clean those up and get a more accurate cut on my table saw. These six boards will be enough to make the dividers for three cabinets. I’m going to mark the bottoms of these and that way when I make a series of grooves for the shelves, it doesn’t have to be exactly spaced on each
cut. As long as I reference that one side on each
board, they’ll all line up. I’m using my dados blades to cut a series
of grooves in one side of each board. And I’ll keep moving my fence over. Again, it doesn’t have to be exact. On the back side of these three I’m going to make three grooves. I’m going to mark them by eye. Maybe I’ll put a groove there, one in the middle, and one over here. These shorter pieces are for the tops and
bottoms. And I need to cut a series of wider grooves
in them. I’ll split all these boards down the middle. Glue and tack these together. Cutting these grooves makes lining everything
up a lot easier. I want to make sure that all of these marks
I made are on the bottom so they all line up. I’m going to reuse these thin dividers from
the old unit and I’m going to slide a few of them into
place now to help keep the dividers square and from
bowing. Before I put the back on. I had to cut two pieces for each back because I didn’t have enough big pieces left
over from the old unit. I’m going to hang these to the wall using
french cleats. I’m cutting these long strips of plywood at 45 degree bevels. Those little bumpers will just keep it away from the wall, like that. This color of paint will make it
a little bigger on the inside. {Advertisement} Well, that’s a start. You can tell, I still
have a lot of work to do to try to get this all organised. I do like having my router table out here where I can get to it a lot easier than when it was over in the corner. Make sure you watch next week. I’m going to be building a new workbench for the center of the shop. I’ve got free plans for this cubby hole organizer you can download. Check in the description for that. And I almost forgot to welcome you to my first video for 2015! I think it’s going to be a great year. I’ve got a lot of plans in store. Make sure you keep up everything Mere Mortals by going to ForMereMortals.net And also subscribe to my second channel, Mere
Minutes. Let’s get organized and make it a great year
everybody. I’ll talk to you next week.

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How to Replace a Front Wheel Bearing in Your Car

August 20, 2019

1, 2, 3, 4! Rev up your engines! [MUSIC PLAYING] It’s time for ScottyKilmer.com Today, due to
popular demand, I’m going to show how to
change wheel bearings on a front-wheel drive car. When you’re driving down the
road, and the faster you go, the louder your car roars, you
need new front-wheel bearings. It’s a greasy job so put
on a pair of these gloves, and you won’t ruin your hands. Then jack-up the car
and get ready to work. And be sure to put a jack stand
on so it doesn’t fall on you. Then take off the wheel. And then you have to take
the brake caliper off, take the bolt off, and
move it out of the way. Then take the caliper
mounting bolts off, and take the caliper
mount out of the way. Then take the pin off
of the drive shaft, put a socket on, and
take the nut off. Then you have to
remove the tie rod, so take that nut
off, and get your tie rod removing tool ready. And hammer it off. There it goes. Then you have to remove
the two bolts that hold the strut assembly in. There’s one. There’s two. Get a hammer and a screwdriver,
and tap the drive shaft out of the axle assembly. There it goes. Then the last step
to take off the axle is to remove the nut on
the lower ball joint, and remove that too. Then just pull the
whole thing off. Now here comes the hard part. The wheel bearing is
hiding inside here. As a professional mechanic,
I have a giant SIR set of tools to pull it out. They cost over $1,000,
so you might just take this to a
machine shop and have them press the old
bearing, or the new one in. But here’s how my tool works. The SIR tool kit
comes with this anvil, and you put the whole axle
assembly on top of it. Then you put a socket in
the hole and hammer it out. There, we’ve got
some of it off now. Then you get a pair
of snap ring pliers. Put the snap ring
pliers on the ring. You take the ring out. Now to get the
actual bearing out, the tools is inserted
into the axle assembly. You put a wrench on each
end and it forces it up. And out comes the
rest of the bearing. Then before you put
the new bearing in, put a little grease
on the outside edge so it slips in better
when you press it back on. With the pressing
[INAUDIBLE] tool engaged, just tighten it up to press
the bearing back in place. Then just bolt
everything back together and you’re ready to go. And in the case of this Toyota,
change the drive shaft too because it’s cracked. So you know how to
change a wheel bearing on a front-wheel drive car. And if you have any
car care questions, just go to ScottyKilmer.com,
and I’ll answer them all, free.

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