Q:I like gardening and growing flowers and plants, but I need to save up money in this crisis ya know, and good ol? regular planters are just too expensive. I have all this old equipment piling up and making mess on my back yard. a tv screen from the 1980?s. a computer screen from the 90?s an old vcr that must be just as old, etc etc.and they?re all just sitting there waiting for kingdom come. So I figured Hey why not make a planter out of the whole lot o?them! maybe just the tv screen. Does anybody have any experience with odd planters? I just do it like I would do it with any regular planter?

Hollow it out drill holes in the bottom of it make sure it's raised off the ground for water to flow out after watering ( for the long term) fill with soiland done.

Q:I have a 2000 Chevy Cavalier 2.2L Automatic. Tried starting it and nothing works. What DOES WORK are the headlights, horn, door chime, brake lights, tail lights, hazards, and the interior lights. No idiot lights, radio, heater/fan, and doesn't turn over. Battery is charged. I also put a screw driver to the posts of the starter and it sparked, so juice is going to the starter. I know that it is something electrical. What puzzles me is that not even a idiot light comes on, even when I turn on the headlights, the dash lights turns on as well and that didn't come on. Does anyone know what I should look for or check? Has anyone heard of a Relay that goes bad where GM had a recall once? No answer is a stupid answer unless you tell me to check my antifreeze. Thanks!

The ignition switch feeds power to your starter and your instrument cluster ( which is all your idiot lights). I would check for power at the ignition switch located on the steering column behind the ignition key tumbler. You should have power going into the switch at the red wire and power going out when the key is turned to the start or run position on yellow wire. Check the wires with either a DVOM or a power probe. I suspect you have a bad ignition switch. It is a 10 pin connector at the switch the Red and dark blue are battery wires so there is always power at those two. it should have power at the others when the key is turned on and to the yellow at the start position that goes to the starter.

Q:2000 malibu power windows will not work at all. replaced the circuit breaker and still does not work

Here are the components to check: The fuse, the window switch, the window motor and the regulator. The regulator is a cable mechanism that actually moves the window up or down (not the same as the motor). If it does not move at all, the fuse, switch and motor are the things to check first.

Q:I need help figuring out why my off road lights are not working. They were working about a week ago and now they don't work. I have the power wire connected to the battery to a toggle switch. The power wire has a fuse on it but if the fuse was blown the light wouldn't go on on the toggle switch right? Then I have the toggle switch grounded. Then I have the white wire going to the off road lights which are LED and have all of the lights grounded and have regrounded them twice since the first time they were not working that was the problem. I even tried a different toggle switch but that didn't fix the problem. The only thing I can think of is the fuse is blown on the power wire but like I said the light on the toggle switch wouldn't light up right? Please help me figure this out!!!

Assuming that the fuse is between the battery and the switch then I would say the switch is burned out. The switch could still light because different contacts in the switch are used for it. Try by-passing the switch and see if they work.

Q:I have a 24' sylvania color tv that suddenly stopped working. I discovered that the fuse had blown out but when I replaced it with another one it immediately blew again why would that happen? There were no other components plugged in at the time, just the tv alone.

Because theres something else down the line that made the fuse blow, something shorted. Dont worry most people who replace the fuse happens to them to. Recycle it. or Get it repaired.

Q:I have a 30amp fuse that operates my door locks and power seats. I carry around a box of them because sometimes the fuse will last a couple of weeks, or days or hours. Any ideas of an easy fix?

Either you have an intermittent short to ground in the wiring or something on the circuit (motor, for example) is adding resistance and subsequently pulling excessive current because it is binding/starting to fail etc. and causing the circuit to overload and the fuse to pop. Is there anything else on the circuit that you know of? Do the power seats move smoothly and consistently on the tracks? Some cars have several motors that control the power seats so it can get complicated if one of them is the culprit. If it is not in the wiring and a component is causing it it sometimes it is easier to wait for the problematic component to take a sh*t and then just replace it. That's about the best that I can say over a computer. Good luck!

Q:I need the wiring diagram for a 1999 Saab 9-5 SE. It is for the front fog lights, I have looked everywhere and cannot find a site that has them for free.

generally there is a light(s) a switch, a fuse, and a relay for the components. If you are looking for the schematic, they are the same components for every car so I would recommend going to your local auto parts store, look on the shelf of fog lights, and on the back of the box has the schematic drawn out. you can copy it or just draw them on a piece of paper, because there are not a lot of wires. I hope this helps ~Joe

Q:I was driving my 1990 jeep cherokee and hit a bump all of a sudden my stereo, clock, and dome lights stopped working. All fuses are good under the dash in the fuse box. Where do i go from there? Please help. Is there a fusable link that conects all those components or what?

double check the fuses, if they all are good. you might have some lose wires

Q:both these components stopped working suddenly on my automatic 2001 toyota Rav4 today. I have had no prior problems until this morning, now both arent registering anything at all. Any ideas what the problem might be, and how much its going to set me back financially to fix it?

get the speedometer working and the odometer will start working.

Q:I was just wondering what happens when an electrical component or circuit becomes 'shot' as we term it. Now I am studying engineering, and my field has delved slightly into electricity, so I understand electricity to a point. But anyone out their with a good understanding of electricity, what exactly goes wrong? Thanks.

The power supply which, we get in our home, contains atleast two wires, one is phase which carries currect inputtin from the transformer, and the other wise is neutral which is commonly dummy, but when we connect the circuit, then this neutral wire provides return path for currentand if these two wires get shorted, then a current of 200 times normal current generates in it, but the wires can carry only upto 5 to 10 times the normal current. so when short occures then such high currents use to do damageso the introduction of circuit breakers or fuse is necessory.with its use the the circuit is get breaked even when the short circuit current become higher than 10 times thanx