{"id":864,"date":"2007-06-23T16:19:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=864"},"modified":"2007-06-23T16:19:17","modified_gmt":"2007-06-23T16:19:17","slug":"home_maintainence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"Home maintainence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3854.jpg\" alt=\"shorted light switch\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nI had a couple of things break in the house recently.  My exhaust fan was not working and making snap-crackle-pop noises.  Which is acceptable in breakfast cereals but not in light switches embedded in walls.  At first I thought it was the fan that shorted out.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3856.jpg\" alt=\"exhaust fan\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSo I yanked off the cover and investigated the fan.  I like how they use a small plug for the fan module.  How convenient!  But it took me a while to pry the fan out.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3855.jpg\" alt=\"exhaust\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nNotice how someone wrapped duct tape to stop drafts?  But when I plugged the fan into an electrical outlet, it worked fine.  Sigh.  All that effort for nothing.  So I removed the light switch and went to Home Depot (another new one on Braker and Mopac.  Man, they are spouting up all over the place!).  I also found out that if you turn the power back on with the light switch missing, then nothing else on the circuit works.  I should know that everything is wired in series&#8230;\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"photo\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pictures.hamzy.info\/blog-photo-IMG_3858.jpg\" alt=\"garbage disposal\"><\/img>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nNext up was the garbage disposal.  In my peach pitting marathon, I accidentally let one of those suckers escape down the drain.  Where it promptly wedged itself in the disposal.  I was able to fish out two pieces with my hand but there was still more in there.  Fortunately, my model has a slot for a big Allen wrench to fit into.  And I was able to turn the blades and clear the blockage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a couple of things break in the house recently. My exhaust fan was not working and making snap-crackle-pop noises. Which is acceptable in breakfast cereals but not in light switches embedded in walls. At first I thought it was the fan that shorted out. So I yanked off the cover and investigated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hamzy.net\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}