jamaclassics

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it, if it is broke, fix it yourself...unless it's brain surgery!"

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Last Seen: 7/22/2008

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Retired Auto Restorer and Street Rod Builder. Worked in the transmission pit at Lamar Ferrel Chevrolet after graduation from The National Institute of Automotive Technology, and briefly at Tune Up Clinic. I love cars, and tools. I have always sewn, a third generation seamstress, and began upholstering cars when I was 18, marrying my interests into a business. I retired when my eyesight got bad from late nights hanging over a hot sewing machine, and went into rehabbing houses for fun & profit

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How to Make a Template for a Headstall for a Horse

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How to Live By The Golden Rule

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How to replace the water pump on a 1996 Cadillac Seville

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How to Replace an Oil Boiler With an Electric Water Heater

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How to clamp oddly shaped glue joints

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by jamaclassics on 07/22/08 : This instructions are for WOODBURINING UNIT with gas starter. All components including the firebreak were inspected and meet code for the state of GA. Did you really read it anyway? ...
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by Sweeper on 07/21/08 : Apparently we're instructing here how to install a gas insert, in which case ussing double or tripe wall chimney, as instructions suggest, is completely WRONG, as well as not to code, and UNSAFE. The suggested type chimeny is only for wood burning appliances. A gas insert requires a length of flexible chimney(flue) liner, designed speciffically for a gas appliance, which connects to the gas insert and is run through the EXISTING chimney flue(inner part of chimney); sealed off at the top with a top plate and a proper gas vent cap isntalled. If these instructions are for a wood burning insert, and as the photos would suggest the existing freplace uses a framed "chase" around existing pre-fab metal pipe which, again as demonstrated by the framed chase would be connected to a Zero Clearance F.P.(pre-fab built unit), then one is in for a surprise if one attempts installing a wood insert in th ...
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How to Build a Trebuchet on 10/18/07

Cool! My grandson just asked me how to do this, and I didn't know. He will love this article!
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How to Repair a Rotted Windowsill on 10/18/07

Well done article. We just did this job on our kitchen windows a few months ago, using new thermo pane ones for replacements. Self Adhesive flashing applied to the new frame helps to seal out air & moisture.
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