There are plenty of times when a homeowner, home mechanic, or general handy-man needs to source a welder. Whether it’s to fix a broken metal plate or to help join two materials together, welding at home is often a rarity and some resort to asking their Facebook friends if anyone knows a professional welder. With the vase marketplace of Amazon, owning your own personal welder is now something easily accessible and something that anyone could quickly learn at home. Today, Vevor is showcasing their new MIG Welder with 200 amps. This big blue box is capable of three different welding…
Author: Justin Vendette
In an uncertain economic time, a lot of people are looking at ways to save money and some even are looking at second sources of income. A common and easy way to create a side hustle is to get involved with using your own skill set right at home that others may lack. Perhaps you have a crafty mind and want to make jewelry to sell or create stylized clothing designs. Websites such as Etsy are a great place to get started on selling personalized goods at a decent price and create that welcomed second source of income. Vevor, a…
Ever want to see where everything disappears to after flushing a toilet? Me neither, but there are many professions that need to investigate such pipes and locations. Clogged, damaged, and collapsed pipes inside a home or office can be devastating to fix. Given that pipes are often underground, knowing the cause of damage to them can be vital is a successful repair. Pool pluming, gutters, water lines, and even toilet sewer drains are all common failure points at some point in time and we often have to give people a call to take a look to fix these sorts of…
Amazon accounts for over 50% of all e-commerce in the United States [source] and with that comes a whole lot of deliveries. During COVID, world shopping quickly went “online”. We can have food, other groceries, and everything else under the sun delivered directly to our doors nowadays, but that means someone has to bring it to us. Even if Amazon does eventually nail down their drone delivery service, long-haul truck drivers and delivery drivers will still be a needed workforce in this apparent digital online ordering world. With more delivery drivers on the road, companies and normal drivers may want…
My house is full of smart home automated tech that would make someone from ten years ago be stunned at what I can do from just a phone in my pocket. As great as the plethora of home tech can be, it does come with countless headaches, issues, and IT troubleshooting. Sometimes basic and simple really can be better. With new homes coming with a front primary door and a rear entry door, it can be helpful to have a doorbell installed to a door that isn’t the front door and spending tons of money for a wired video doorbell…
X-Sense 3-Pack SC07-W Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm Overview It was only a few years ago when I moved into my first apartment and then eight months later need to move out due to my above neighbor catching their garage on fire. Luckily, I wasn’t home at the time, but the smoke and damage from the fire caused great valuable losses. If only their garage had a smoke detector to alert them of a raging fire, then most of the damage may have been suppressed by a fire extinguisher. Fires in homes are devastating and carbon monoxide can be deadly;…
When migrating a MDS model from one database (or server) to another, the MDS Deployment Tool may report that the input mask is not valid. Input Masks in MDS represent the data-type of each field; think of a cell datatype in Excel. Each Input Mask is represented in the SQL database under the [tblList] table. This lists the available Input Masks available to users in MDS. To my knowledge, the only way to add Input Masks is to insert them into this table. During the migration of an MDS model using the Deploy Tool, the tool will attempt to check…
Remove DevOps Server or TFS On-Prem User Locks In the situation where a user no longer works at the company or a file has a phantom lock on a DevOps Server/TFS repository, administrators may undo the lock on the repository or file in question. This guide was created for DevOps Server 2019, but should continue to work on older Team Foundation Server installs. 1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio from the Official Download Page. Visual Studio 2019 was used in this situation. 2. Install the matching copy of Team Explorer for the previously downloaded Visual Studio client. 3. With both tools…
Performance of gas without the noise, fuss, and fumes – An Ego Power+ 24in Snow Blower Review Back in March of 2021, I bought my first house here in enjoyable-summer, yet cold-winter Wisconsin. After I got settled in, around August, I knew it was only a few months until the aforementioned cold-winter Wisconsin was about to begin. On average, my town in Southeastern Wisconsin receives about 45 inches of snow each year. Granted not all of this snow sticks or accumulates on the ground, but there are often a few days when 2 – 5 inches are expected to land.…
Spectrum/Time Warner Cable Outlook Email Setup with Pictures If you’re like me, you may still be using an email from your internet provider for some legacy online accounts and/or services. While ISP provided emails are convenient, people have heavily transitioned to online email providers such as Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo. Even though I’ve transitioned most of the accounts, I need to maintain my old Time Warner Cable email address in my Outlook for the one-off emails it receives. I thought this would be a straightforward thing, simply add my account to Outlook and be done with it, but Spectrum, who…