Anyone familiar with this Bissel carpet cleaner? This waste canister seems to be split in half there previously joined with like rubber cement or silicone. What would be the purpose of making it in two parts? Do just clean it up and use something suitable for plastic? Something with flex?
All the parts lists show it as one piece.
Typically a part like that is cast in two pieces and then electronically welded together.
I would use a plastic glue like Duco Cement.
Be sure to clean the joint well. I'd use lighter fluid to clean.
I don't think silicone will hold well there.
Ah. So when you say weld, you talking about fire and like plastic? I'm only familiar with metal welding and plastic repair. You saying welding is done with plastic in production somehow?
I guess I don't see why not. Just a other softer material that can melt and reform just like metal right?
Hi all, possibly a stupid question, but I'm trying to confirm whether or not there's something wrong with my microwave before replacing/modifying it. It's a GE JVM1540SM5SS OTR microwave (picture attached). It's vented to the outside. My problem is (possibly) with the intake for the vent. I'm not sure that it's really any good at actually drawing air up away from my gas range.
The microwave has a slotted grill along the top front of it, with two small intakes for the vent behind the grill (red arrows in attached picture). I confirmed that it does suck air in here, by loosely holding tissue paper near these spots and having it adhere to the grill from the air pressure. However, I would expect that the vent would primarily draw in air from beneath, where the blue arrows are in my diagram. There are grease traps down there. The problem is, I don't think that it is drawing in air from there. I never see any effect on steam rising from my cooking when the vent's on, and the same tissue paper test underneath the microwave has no effect on the paper. Maybe it's a small thing, but it just doesn't seem to be working properly.
Is this something that I could change? Some alternate means of routing the airflow so that it draws in from the bottom, rather than the top? For what it's worth, the grease traps don't seem dirty at all, and I really don't think the previous owners would have cleaned them. Or is there a good way to test and see if the vent is in fact drawing in air from the bottom, besides observing steam or the tissue paper I used?
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I live in an apartment and I'm trying to install a range hood.
How would you recommend? What kind of range hood? Where should I plug for power?
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