fixed1t Money Saving Tips
This blog contains a number of simple money saving solutions I have discovered to potentially expensive repairs or replacements. For Example: Cleaning of the shower mould using domestos grot buster saved me hundreds of pounds, and the fact that it keeps the mould out of the caulk saves me hours of additional cleaning.
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Friday, 7 April 2023
Gardening Tips DIY Seed Tray Tamper by @fixed1t
Friday, 2 December 2022
Removing Laser Printer Drum Lines And Marks Quickly
As I've highlighted in many of the descriptions of my @fixed1t
youtube videos, most of them came about due to a repair I needed to
carry out for myself or from the very long list that my wife keeps just
for me ;-) a growing and expanding list. One such item was the fact
that her laser printer was now putting messy lines, spots and smudges on
her laser prints.
After running the clean the drum routine (it hardly ever works) she
asked me to fix it. So this is me Removing Laser Printer Drum and
removing the Lines And Marks quickly and effciently. Althought this
video is about a Brother laser printer the same principle applies to
laser printer makes. However, there is never guarentee this will
complete work and I accept no responsibility if you decide to copy what I
show in this video, but it does work and often buys time to get another
roller and or ink cartridge.
I hope you like the video, if it helps you or saves you money, please
consider using the Superthanks heart link under the video to buy me a
coffee or biscuit. Most of all, don't forget to subscribe to the @fixed1t channel and share it with others.
Malcolm aka #fixed1t
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Surviving Poverty : Can A Meths Candle Cook An Egg Part 4
In Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 3 I achieved my result a temperature of 80+ centigrade and a hard boiled egg. The time taken was cut by a third by adding insulation to 2 hours 15 mins. In this video Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 4 I've substituted the Tealight Candle for a candle sized Methylated Spirit Burner to try and reduce the cooking time to reach 80 degrees centigrade. My modification was really successful as you will see, if you watch all the video. Background The UK economy is in trouble, normal working people are regularly having to work two or three jobs and shifts in order to bring in sufficient money just to live. The energy crisis caused by the energy companies price hiking with no controls other than 'The Market' ie themselves means that working people are desperate to reduce their energy costs, fuel bills and food bills to try to reduce the increasing amount of debt they are having to take on just to survive. So where does that leave those without jobs, or in such poorly paid zero hours jobs where they find themselves with only a few pennies to spare for heating, lighting, food and cooking or the old on miserably low UK pensions and disabled on benefits, the worst in the free world. It leaves them with nothing. So I've decided to set about finding out what I can achieve with the meagrest of items and over this series of videos I will be doing truthful and repeatable experiments and eating, drinking and staying warm with the outcomes. scenario one: So your in a war zone, you need to stay indoors perhaps in a cellar, you have limited water, only a single small candle and a lighter plus a tiny 250ml pan and one egg stolen from a local chicken. If you like the video please subscribe to the channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know about this series, the things I am learning will have greater significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into other ideas.
Malcolm aka @fixed1t
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 3
In Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 2 I achieved my result a temperature of 80+ centigrade and a hard boiled egg. It can be done with patience, you can cook a hard boiled egg, this video shows how. However, it took a very long time to boil the egg a toal of 3 hours 52 mins. In this video Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 3 I've made some alterations to the plan in order to try and reduce the cooking time and therefore cut the time the candle is burning. My changes were really successful as you will see, if you watch all the video. Background The UK economy is in trouble, normal working people are regularly having to work two or three jobs and shifts in order to bring in sufficient money just to live. The energy crisis caused by the energy companies price hiking with no controls other than 'The Market' ie themselves means that working people are desperate to reduce their energy costs, fuel bills and food bills to try to reduce the increasing amount of debt they are having to take on just to survive. So where does that leave those without jobs, or in such poorly paid zero hours jobs where they find themselves with only a few pennies to spare for heating, lighting, food and cooking or the old on miserably low UK pensions and disabled on benefits, the worst in the free world. It leaves them with nothing. So I've decided to set about finding out what I can achieve with the meagrest of items and over this series of videos I will be doing truthful and repeatable experiments and eating, drinking and staying warm with the outcomes. scenario one: So your in a war zone, you need to stay indoors perhaps in a cellar, you have limited water, only a single small candle and a lighter plus a tiny 250ml pan and one egg stolen from a local chicken. If you like the video please subscribe to the channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know about this series, the things I am learning will have greater significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into other ideas. Malcolm aka @FIXED1T
Sunday, 13 November 2022
Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 2
In Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 1 I
attempted to heat a small 250ml Turkish Milk Pan with a single Tealight
candle to 80 degrees centigrade to hard boil an egg. I didn't manage to
do it only achieving 72 degrees and a partly cook boiled egg.
In this video Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg
Part 2 I built on the knowledge from the previous experiment and
achieved my result a temperature of 80+ centigrade and a hard boiled
egg. It can be done with patience, you can cook a hard boiled egg, this
video shows how.
Background
The UK economy is in trouble, normal working people are regularly having
to work two or three jobs and shifts in order to bring in sufficient
money just to live. The energy crisis caused by the energy companies
price hiking with no controls other than 'The Market' ie themselves
means that working people are desperate to reduce their energy costs,
fuel bills and food bills to try to reduce the increasing amount of debt
they are having to take on just to survive. So where does that leave
those without jobs, or in such poorly paid zero hours jobs where they
find themselves with only a few pennies to spare for heating, lighting,
food and cooking or the old on miserably low UK pensions and disabled on
benefits, the worst in the free world. It leaves them with nothing. So
I've decided to set about finding out what I can achieve with the
meagrest of items and over this series of videos I will be doing
truthful and repeatable experiments and eating, drinking and staying
warm with the outcomes. scenario one: So your in a war zone, you need to
stay indoors perhaps in a cellar, you have limited water, only a single
small candle and a lighter plus a tiny 250ml pan and one egg stolen
from a local chicken. If you like the video please subscribe to the
channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know
about this series, the things I am learning will have greater
significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into
other ideas.
Malcolm aka @fixed1t
Saturday, 12 November 2022
Surviving Poverty 1 Preventing Heat Loss Through Tripod Legs
Whilst carrying out my first experiment to cook a boiled egg from cold using just a small Tealight Candle, I realised that a lot of the heat going into the tripod mesh was being lost heating up the metal tripod legs. So I've come up with a single fix for Preventing Heat Loss Through Tripod Legs. In the next experiment we will be testing this theory, but here is how I did it. If you like the video please subscribe to the channel, and if you know somebody struggling with poverty, let them know about this series, the things I am learning will have greater significance than just the video and may spark them or yourselves into other ideas. Malcolm aka @fixed1t
Friday, 11 November 2022
Surviving Poverty : Can A Tealight Candle Cook An Egg Part 1
Malcolm aka @fixed1t