How to Repair iPhone 5c Li-Ion 3.8V Battery Replacement

Fig.1 Li-ion 
Battery 3.8V 1560 mAh

By Gary Boutin

Tools and Supplies:
Apple iPhone 5c Smartphones
Lithium-Ion Battery for -
          Apple® iPhone® 5c - Black
Sam's Club Membership

Like all technology eventually it fails and needs to be repaired. We purchased our iPhone 5c from Sam's Club during an special phone sale. The phone has been great and has handled all our needs but it was slowly needing to be charge every day and some days it might need to be charge twice. The solution was to replace the battery. At first I wanted to do this job myself but in the end we decided to have our local Sam's Club Technology Center handle the job. It took them about two hours for two phones. Watching the technicians I was happy that I didn't do it myself.

This post shows in five steps how we decided to repair our iPhone 5c. This is a review of Sam's Club Technology Staff that repaired our iPhones.

Step 1: Put in iPhone 5c battery replacement on your favorite search engine. This will help you decide what plan that needs to be chosen. Either do the work yourself or do your own repair.
Step 2: If you choose Amazon as your supplier, there are many different prices for tools available to replace the battery.  
Step 3: Fig.2 shows some of the tools that come with the replacement battery: Metal tweezers, Philips Size PH 00 x 40 screwdriver, plastic opening tool, 2-adhesive strips, spudger, suction cup,  Pentalobe (Five-Star) screwdriver.
Step 4: We decided to let the Sam's Club Technology Staff replace our batteries. The replacement batteries took one hour per phone. The price is what changed our minds on doing it yourself. Don't believe the advertisement that it takes 15 minutes to replace iPhone batteries. The technicians went to school for an entire week before repairing public phones. 

Step 5: The Sam's Club price was around twenty five dollars per phone and it came with a 90-day guaranteed. 

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Coax Cable Wall Plate Installation

Alligator pliers

By Gary Boutin

Supplies and Tools:

Cable wall plate kit

Slip-join pliers

Small flat screwdriver

I was called by a Mr. Applehumber in Santa Clarita, California. They were selling their homes and moving up to Colorado. After the Realtor checked their beautiful home, she requested a huge laundry list of repairs. Jim wanted a cable plate repaired. 

This post shows the six steps on how to install a cable wall plate kit. 
 
Step 1: Fig.1 shows cable coming out of a wall box with no cover.

Fig.1 Cable 
and no plate

Step 2: Fig.2 shows wall plaque is the answer and will have a neat look and be ready to use.

Fig.2 Wall Plate Kit

Step 3: Take apart the package and look at the front and the back.
Step 4. Find the rough part and twist the F-connector from the wall onto the back of the wall plate.
Step 5: Fig.3, fig.4 and fig.5 shows the progression of the cable into the wall plate.

Fig.3 Plate connector 
front view

Fig.4 Back view

Fig.5 Back view 
cable connected

Step 6. Fig.6 shows that the back is connected twist the television cable on the front of the plate.

Fig.6 Front view

Step 7. Fig.7 shows both cable are in place and the plate needs to be screwed to the junction box. The job is finished and it looks better than having the cable coming out of the cable junction box.

Fig.7 Both in the plate

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How to Paint Laundry Room Wood Floor Baseboard

Fig.1 Generic blue 
painting tape

By Gary Boutin

Supplies and Tools:

Blue painting tape

Kilz® primer

White enamel paint
1-inch brush

George Applecart noticed my internet ad and asked us to visit San Diego, California. He paid for our little trip to this beautiful resort area. George live in Chula Vista near the Mexican boarder. He had a laundry room that had an unpainted floor molding and needed to be painted the same color.

This post shows the four steps of painting a laundry room floor molding.

Step 1: Fig.1 shows the pictures shown were the blue tape was applied on the floor and the top of the back molding.
Step 2: Fig.2 shows blue tape is being applied near the dryer vent pipe.

Fig.2 Tape the floor

Step 3: Fig.3 and fig.4 shows that the painters tape has been applied and the area is ready to be primed.

Fig.3 Tape above 
the baseboard

Fig.4 Two lines of tape

Step 4: Fig.5 and fig.6 shows the wood using a 1-inch brush. After the area dried, I applied two coats of white enamel paint to the unpainted wood areas. Next, I removed the blue tape and the job was finished. Now the area looks like it should with no differences in color.

Fig.5 Tape removed

Fig.6 Baseboard painted

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