How to Fix Loose Micro-USB Cables

 

Can't Charge Your Cell Phone
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Every experience the frustration of when you phone port breaks and Can’t Charge Your Cell Phone unless you do all manner of acrobatics to hold the cable JUST RIGHT.

The video shows how I made a simple hack to fix the problem.

Well this does not exactly fix the problem, but it does give you extra time before you have to buy a new phone.  I have used this hack on my cheap streighttalk wireless phone to give me an extra six months between buying a new one.

All you need is a charging cable, a rubber band, and some tape.

The idea is that the metal band inside the charging port wears down so it does not hold the cable securely.  This is the reason why you can’t charge your cell phone.

A rubber band holds the cable tightly which reduces the need for the metal band.  You would think they would build a sturdier charging port, but I think it is planned obsolescence so you drop another couple hundred on a phone.  With as often as new phones come out and people trying to keep up with the Jones I would imagine a lot of people would not have the problem of wearing out your phone port.  However, I bet many of those reading this probably have.

Basic Electricity

Basic Electricity
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One thing the military does better than anyone is technical training.  In the military they take a raw 17 year old and in the course of a few months teach them highly technical skills that the young soldier or sailor must do under times of great stress.

This military based training manual on basic electricity is something every farm, homestead, or prepper library should have on the shelf.

This is an expanded and revised U.S. Navy training course text provides thorough coverage of the basic theory of electricity and its applications. It is unquestionably the best book of its kind for either broad or more limited studies of electrical fundamentals.

This book is divided into 21 chapters and an extensive section of appendixes. Chapters cover safety, fundamental concepts of electricity, batteries, series direct-current circuits, network analysis of direct-current circuits, electrical conductors and wiring techniques, electromagnetism and magnetic circuits, introduction to alternating-current electricity, inductance, capacitance, inductive and capacitive reactance, fundamental alternating-current circuit theory, direct-current generators, direct current motor magnetic amplifiers, and synchros and servomechanisms. Appendixes acquaint lay readers with common terms, abbreviations, component color-code, full load currents of motors, and cable types; they also supply trig functions, square and square roots, basic formulas, and laws of exponents.

This book supplies the reader with a complete basic coverage of all important aspects of electricity. And, drawing on its ample funds, the Navy was able to fill this text with dozens of illustrations so that the book becomes almost a multimedia teaching process.

This is an excellent text for classroom use or for home study. Students will also find it a valuable supplement to courses in which theory is emphasized while little attention is paid to application; it will also supplement a course in which this situation is reversed. In addition, Basic Electricity serves the lay reader who simply wants a knowledge of fundamental concepts of electricity or wishes to study more advanced concepts and applications. 1969 edition.

Kitchen DIY: Meatloaf in a Springform Pan

Meatloaf in a Springform Pan
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This was a kitchen experiment, it worked well, even though an experienced chef may say “Why”?

There really was no reason to try to cook meatloaf in a springform pan other than my wife learned I needed a springform pan to make cheesecake and then went on a diet after the first cheesecake.

I have to use the pan for something, and I thought if I use a springform pan for meatloaf, then removing the meatloaf would be easy.

This worked pretty well, but the typical meatloaf method of making a sling to lift out the meatloaf after cooking works well also.

In actuality I would rather post a video of an awesome cheesecake recipe, but they are an item I am forbidden to cook – so I wait until the wife leaves and clean up all the evidence.

I can only write about it here because she never reads this…..

I know this is probably a pointless post, but on this website I do what I do and post the results no matter if it works or not.  I figure if I show my failures and bad ideas you can see I am real.

This may be pointless and silly but its not pointless and silly if it works.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Island of the Blue Dolphins is a book I read over and over as a child.  In the beginning it was because I would have loved to live on a deserted island.  Later it may have been because I wanted to know where I could find my version of the stories heroine.Here is an excerpt from the text:

Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kelp beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches.

Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply.

More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana’s quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.

I am looking forward to sharing Island of the Blue Dolphins with my son.

Tactics of the Crescent Moon: Militant Muslim Combat Methods

Tactics of the Crescent Moon
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The tactics in this book deserve a lot of thought.  It is my opinion that war will eventually come to America, and those that fight against our citizens will either fight in the manner described in this book, or will be defeated by the tactics described within.Tactics of the Crescent Moon is required reading at Forts Benning and Leavenworth (and some Marine commands), because it fully details the Islamists’ yet-to-be-defeated 4GW method.

That method is best countered by “light” infantry tactics, but America has had only “line” infantry since 1943.

Its modern sequel travels mostly by truck and fights mostly with supporting arms. That’s because the Pentagon still practices a “higher-tech” version of 2GW (killing as many enemy as possible).

How to operate the latest equipment takes up so much of the young infantryman’s day that he never learns how to sneak up on an expert defender.

He and his buddies don’t become any less visible by donning advanced electronics, so their traditional small-unit maneuvers remain just as predictable. Instead of historical artifacts, all Posterity Press books should be viewed as vehicles of long-overdue change.

I don’t know if that description is interesting to you, but I think it makes this book required reading for those concerned about Islamism.