Random Thoughts - Part Deux [NO POLITICS]

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Razor

this?


https://www.razer.com/mobile/razer-phone

[spike021]

For you DIY-ers, anyone have advice for fixing one of these:



The parents have a set of these in the living room and one of the panels' shutters open on their own fairly easily with gravity, whereas the other 4 panels stay shut as normal.

Like you could walk down at night and think the place is haunted because one panel is open and you can see outside.



Is there a DIY solution to get it to.. stick closed better? I don't know a better term for it. Would be cool to see if I could fix it for them.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

Razor

[Spawn_Of_Creation]

Originally Posted by spike021

Is there a DIY solution to get it to.. stick closed better?

Glue?

[spike021]

Originally Posted by Spawn_Of_Creation

Glue?

These are adjustable lol. The fix isn’t to keep the shutters stuck. The point is usually that there’s probably some kind of tension or something to keep them in the position you open them or close them to.

[BirdTRD]

Originally Posted by spike021

Is there a DIY solution to get it to.. stick closed better? I don't know a better term for it. Would be cool to see if I could fix it for them.

Check for a tension screw on the side

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[Spawn_Of_Creation]

Originally Posted by spike021

These are adjustable lol. The fix isn’t to keep the shutters stuck. The point is usually that there’s probably some kind of tension or something to keep them in the position you open them or close them to.

Usually its a string or worm gear that moves the middle rod connected to the shutters. Possible its stripped or broken.

[spike021]

Originally Posted by BirdTRD

Check for a tension screw on the side

That's perfect. Darn, just checked and there's no hole on the side that's easy to access, and checking for a hole on the other side probably would require taking it off the hinges.



Will have to see what I can do when it's light out tomorrow.

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by spike021

That's perfect. Darn, just checked and there's no hole on the side that's easy to access, and checking for a hole on the other side probably would require taking it off the hinges.



Will have to see what I can do when it's light out tomorrow.

Won't the blind sections open up far enough to check for a screw on the inside?

Are you sure the screw hole is not plugged and you are overlooking the plug?


Bubba says just to bang the edge of the frame towards the louvers, in several places, with a hammer, till they behave ….


humfrz

[humfrz]

OK, folks, our 3 days without grandchildren ends tomorrow morning.

I finally got caught up. Caught up on doing what? Caught up on doing NOTHING!





humfrz

[Spawn_Of_Creation]

Originally Posted by humfrz

Bubba says just to bang the edge of the frame towards the louvers, in several places, with a hammer, till they behave

Gotta love percussive maintenance

[ScoobsMcGee]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

...until it wears out.[/IMG]

"Pfft. That's for the second owner to worry about, pleeb."
- Typical Panamera lessee

[MuseChaser]

Originally Posted by spike021

For you DIY-ers, anyone have advice for fixing one of these:



The parents have a set of these in the living room and one of the panels' shutters open on their own fairly easily with gravity, whereas the other 4 panels stay shut as normal.

......

Only experience I've ever had with plantation shades (which is what these are called, I found out last night while trying to order some for an interior opening window cutout BETWEEN rooms in our house) were in villas and apartments in the Caribbean. They were typically all swollen due to the humidity and required a lot of force to adjust the louvers. That vertical bar has a bunch of little tiny sort of metal staples along it that, in turn, are looped through a similar loop on each of the louvers, and that's it.. no magic mechanisms. The louvers each pivot in the frame and are held in place by friction at the pivot points. As the wood swells and shrinks, that friction changes, making them either immovable or, as you're experiencing, too movable.


Yours look like they're hinged. Can you swing them open and then do as Humfrz suggested and try and bang the frame a bit closer together? If not, taking a syringe and just putting a few drops of water at each slat's pivot points might help the wood swell back up enough. Look at all of the pivot points... there might be a tension adjustment of some kind as someone else suggested, maybe something as simple as a screw with a rubber stop that's supposed to rub on a single slat's pivot shaft, which would affect the whole system since they're all linked.



Just some ideas/guesses/theories/waste of bandwidth. Let us know what you find out!

[MuseChaser]

OK... gathering ingredients to make a few cheesecakes for an upcoming gathering. Making shopping list. Need vanilla wafers for one of the crusts. Wife pulls out unopened box from cupboard, but suggests maybe we should get new box. I inquire, "why?" She says, "It's dated 2012." Yeah, but they're sealed in a plastic back inside a glued shut unopened box. To prove I'm right, I open the box, grab a wafer, pop it in my mouth eagerly, chew vigorously, and....

...am rewarded with something that tastes like a cross between mildewed cardboard and fermented rancid pickles with sort of a back flavor of vomit off in the distance.



I still feel sick. I guess there's a limit as to what chemicals, preservatives, and hermetically sealed packaging can accomplish. Ewwwwww.