Hi,

Is there good literature on how to repair stuff? Just general things, not specific appliances. How to repair wood, how to properly sand wood and metal, how to replace a tile, how to read and analyze circuits, identify faulty parts and correct replacements, etc. I just want to become better at repairing stuff.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I wish I could find a good intermediate reference that picked up at the level of detail the books you mentioned leave off.

    For example, I’m framing a wall for the first time and although every book will tell you “put studs 16” on center," it’s hard to figure out that the spacing gets measured from the left edge of the first stud. They also don’t tell you things like where the seam should fall when the wall is long enough that you need more than one board for the top plate, or what to do if you want to locate an electrical box halfway between two studs, or (in a lot of the books) even something as basic as how to detail a corner connection.