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How to Fix and Replace a KitchenAid Blender Coupling

What you see there is the plastic coupling that sits on the base of a KitchenAid blender that turns the blade inside the blender. Did I mention it is made out of plastic? My wife was making a smoothy this morning and apparently the frozen fruit was too much for our KitchenAid Blender (Model #KSB50B3) [...]

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Samsung TV Capacitor “Clicking” Issue and Free Repair

If you have a Samsung LCD TV and are experiencing a growing number of startup issues with it or weird sounds, this post is for you. Many users on AVSForums have reported experiencing delayed starts, “clicking” sounds, and eventually having the Samsung TVs stop being able to power on. This apparently is being caused by [...]

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Missing HD Channels on Dish Network from Satellites 119 and 129?

Are you a Dish Network customer with missing HD channels like TBS HD (139) and TLC HD (183) because every time you tune to them your tuner box pops up the Signal Aquisition dialog box that scans all the Transponders for that given Satellite? Me too. In my case, I have the Turbo HD package [...]

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UPDATE: Samsung LNT-xx71f Dead Pixel Panel Replacement

You might have caught our coverage at the end of May of the seeming problem Samsung was having with their LNT-xx71f (LNT-5271F specifically) panels having dead pixels popup out of the clear blue after a few months of use. One of the readers, TiVoHD, pointed out that it’s a known issue and referred to as [...]

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Laminate Wood Flooring Guide (with Tips!)

NOTE: There is a lot of good information in here, but if you are impatient please at least read the Tips section below to save yourself a headache later. Introduction So you have a new house or want to spruce up your hold house by putting some laminate wood flooring down? Well I’ve just gotten [...]

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Panasonic NB-G100P-S Infrared Toaster Oven Review

Update #1: As most of you finding this post know, Panasonic stopped selling this toaster oven shortly after it got a lot of rave reviews and a dedicated following. I assume this is due to some patent infringement owned by Black & Decker as they seem to be the only company continuing to sell IR [...]

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Mitsubishi WD-65831 "Air Flow" Problem

Readers of the blog first started reporting the problem in this thread. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, but now I’m on the 4th day of my TV turning itself off because of “Air Flow”. Following my First Incident with getting a replacement and now this White Blooming issue going on [...]

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