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How to break a 2x1 meter glass in a safe and handy way?
If you are not in a hurry you could try selling the glass to someone in one piece. Put it on craigslist or facebook or whatever local buy/sell service is popular where you live. Who knows, maybe ...
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How can I improvise a magnifying glass?
If you have a smooth, cylindrical drinking glass made of clear glass, you could fill it with water and allow the convex shape of the glass to magnify the object behind it.
Alternately, if you have a ...
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How can I improvise a magnifying glass?
If the reason you are having trouble reading the small type is because you are farsighted/nearsighted, or because it is dark (causing your pupils to dilate and your vision to get fuzzier) you may find ...
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How to clean out a peanut butter jar for recycling?
To help you get the remainings more easily out of the glass, there are silicone scrapers available in different shapes and sizes. They work quite well. Actually it works a lot better than you could do ...
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Best method of getting a wine label off a wine bottle?
According to Popular Mechanics the most effective method was using baking soda and water:
Baking Soda and Water
Directions: Three bottles, 16 tablespoons of baking soda and 32 cups
of water, ...
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How can I defog a bathroom mirror?
I once discovered, that a hair dryer entirely removes that fog.
Simply point the hair dryer at your mirror and blow hot air out.
I usually only defog the top middle of the mirror, so I can make sure ...
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How to avoid background reflection Computer display
As long as you can't block the major light sources easily, then you need a Monitor filter (wikipedia), which has anti glare or anti reflex/reflective behaviour. These can be bought commercially for at ...
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How can I remove streaks on my windshield from the wipers?
There are several possibilities that can lead to streaks from the wipers:
Worn out wipers: replace them
Dirt particles or leaves: clean the wipers
Wax polish on the screen: clean the screen with an ...
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How can you get algae out of of a glass bottle?
Use sand.
If you are close to some source of sand, you could put some into the bottle and swirl it around to "scrub" the bottom of the bottle with some hot soapy water. Sand is fine in size, abrasive,...
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Efficient cheap way to make a door top which is glass material blurr for outsiders which prevents peeping
It is very usefull (and cheap btw) where nothing can be see through it by eyes, but sun (or light from another room) can pass it.
So we talking about privacy window films.
You can find it (in my ...
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Is there an effective way to clean up shattered glass from a floor?
Broken glass pieces are sometimes scattered to an invisible size. It is important to clean these scattered and splashed broken glass in the best way possible. Otherwise, another accident or injury may ...
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How to clean out a peanut butter jar for recycling?
Put a few tablespoons of flaxseed meal into the glass and rub against the wall with a wooden spoon. The flaxseed will pick up the peanut butter cleanly. Eat the mixture with yoghurt.
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How do I remove a car window sticker?
For starters try using your hair blower to add heat to the sticker, and see if that doesn't help pulling it off.
Next step would be to use a scraper of some sort, i.e. oven scraper or paint scraper, ...
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How can I safely sanitise my smartphone's display?
If the screen itself is not greasy or visibly soiled then you should just wipe it down with a microfiber cloth. If the cloth is clean the screen will be clean. Clean the cloth though sometimes, I ...
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How to differentiate glass from plastic?
Glass will be colder than plastic when you touch it. In addition, glass will warm up more slowly from the heat of your hand, whereas plastic will reach the same temperature as your hand within a few ...
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How to remove sticker from car windshield without tearing it
If it is a plastic sticker, try to heat up the window from the other side of the sticker so it becomes somewhat loose, then you can gently peel it off and it should come right off.
However, if it is ...
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How can I defog a bathroom mirror?
One solution I've found that helps in this situation is to apply an automotive product intended for car windscreens to the mirror such as Rain-X. When the bathroom is dry and humidity free, clean the ...
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How to differentiate glass from plastic?
You won't require Scratching it, just tap it with finger nail and you will know by the sound what is it.
A light plastic me produce a pop sound.
Glass would be hard and will produce a tunnn sound or ...
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How to avoid background reflection Computer display
Tell your employer they are likely breaking health and safety rules regarding screen glare and need to do something about it, ideally a blind on the window would be the best (as then you can also ...
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How to transport a glass without breaking it
Remove the legs from the table, tape the glass TO the table to ensure it doesn't slide around.
You now have a holdable moving platform for the glass :)
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How to cut glass without a glass cutter
A carbide scribe (for writing on steel) makes an admirable substitute glass cutter -- in fact, before wheel cutters were common, hardened steel scribes were used routinely.
In fact, anything that ...
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How can you get algae out of of a glass bottle?
If you let some chlorine bleach stand in the bottle overnight any and all organic stuff will have been de-colourised and softened up enough to most likely rinse out.
We soak out water bottles ...
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Efficient cheap way to make a door top which is glass material blurr for outsiders which prevents peeping
Craft stores, when I was a kid, carried a paint-on glass coating that dried to a crystalline appearance. The colorless variety blocked very little light, but it scattered very effectively -- meaning ...
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How to best clean unused wax out of a glass votive candle holder?
I usually put the candle holder in the refrigerator overnight. The next morning I take a knife and pop the wax off. Works every time.
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How to break a 2x1 meter glass in a safe and handy way?
I am not a big fan of uncontrolled shattering of the glass - shards everywhere and it’s hard to control, even within a bag or box.
I recommend you get a (diamond) glass cutter to neatly cut up the ...
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Best method of getting a wine label off a wine bottle?
you can also boil the bottles in a large pot of water for a few minutes, provided your pot is big enough. When my friends and I reclaim used beer bottles to bottle our homemade brew, this is always ...
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How can I clean my car headlights?
The easiest and most hacky way is using toothpaste. Yes, you've read right. The thing that makes your teeth shiny can also make your headlights clean and shiny again.
Some may recommend using bug ...
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Car windscreen has lots of tiny scratches. How to remove them?
I had an older car with lots of scratches in the windshield and took it to a professional who said that no hacks are available. He could of course be soliciting his business, but I didn't get that ...
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How to avoid background reflection Computer display
This sounds bizarre, but can you tilt your monitor down a bit? It should then reflect more of the floor and your lap, and you wouldn't see the sunshine in it. (It may become difficult to read, though.)...
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How to avoid background reflection Computer display
You can knit a privacy sock. The one in the image is for a laptop, but I'm sure the design can be adapted. It's a sock that covers your head and your monitor, so no one can see your display but you. A ...
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