Author: snewton
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Replacing broken Ford F350 sun visor clips
My 2005 diesel F350 is a wonderful vehicle, but the interior plastic bits are around 20 years old, and decades of sun embrittlement have been taking their toll. Worse, Ford changes around their interior pieces periodically, so parts from new trucks aren’t necessarily going to fit into my older truck. One of the cab parts…
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Chicken and steak quesadillas
As a San Diegan, Mexican food is part of my core food groups. There are supposed to be four or five food groups, depending on when you attended school over the last few decades. Well, if you lived in California, one of those groups is definitely Mexican food. Since moving to Ozark, AL, I have…
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Chicken bake sandwiches
This was a relatively quick lunch for my kids, taking roughly 20 minutes to make (while weighing ingredients and taking pictures). I expect that someone who’s reasonably on top of their game can bang this out in 15 without rushing. Bake time is 10min if you’re doing burger buns, or 7min if you’re doing rice…
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Dog fur pusher for Ryobi PCL705 hand vacuum
So, I recently got tired of having to reach into my trusty Ryobi PCL705 vacuum cleaner to remove dog fur, and I designed and printed a tool to do it for me. With my two and a half dogs (two husky mixes and a wolf/malamute mix), fur-shedding season can be brutal. I fill the vacuum…
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Decibel Meters For Autistic Kids
If your kids are on the autism spectrum, and are verbal, there’s an excellent chance that voice volume control is one of their challenges. It certainly is the case for my kids, and has been a challenge for me as well in my life. I think perhaps if my parents had had one of these…
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Cable machine weight stacks are lying to you
So, I very much like to know exactly what I’m doing in the gym. Free weights are the gold standard for being reproducible, but there’s something to be said for the convenience of cable-based weight machines and their weight stacks and pins. I’m not going to lie; I use them myself quite a bit. But…
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New wireless, old camera
Disclosure: Affiliate links in article; if you purchase something from an Amazon link on this page, I’ll receive a small amount from Amazon. Over the course of my almost-15-years working for Sony Electronics, I acquired quite a few cameras – video and still. While most of them are HD only (I only have a couple…
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Weights of the Bars At Ozark Health & Fitness Center
So, this is not going to be of much interest to folks who aren’t working out at the same gym I go to (Ozark Health & Fitness Center). I find myself hauling bars over to the scale every now and then when I’m not exactly sure how much they weigh. So, this post is mostly…
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Making 3 Open Face Subs For $2.50 in 2024
A friend was recently complaining on Facebook about how basic fast food sandwiches are no longer $1. I certainly share in the annoyance of fast food inflation, but this made me realize that folks may not be familiar with the scope of their available options. Wal-Mart uses (or perhaps misuses) a lot of vertical integration…
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Eat that in a small town
One of the things I focus on at Newton Publications are things that you miss from the big city, and what to do about it. If you describe what you’re missing to the locals, it seems irrelevant to them, because they’ve never had it. It’s like you are describing colors to someone who’s very happy…