You can't raise the level in the bowl unless you plug the drain. The level in the bowl is at the top of the trap, so like you discovered if you add more liquid it just drains out. The tank float has nothing to do with the bowl either. I'd try scrubbing it with Bar Keeper's Friend. So far there's no stain it won't take off our porcelain farm sink. You can turn off the water supply and flush the toilet so the tank and bowl won't refill, leaving the ring exposed above the water so you can scrub it easier.
Be sure and get the good stuff, aka the stuff WITH the VOC's, that non-VOC shit is for pussies. Or just use Bar Keepers Friend, that shit works great.
Usually I'm not for killing a tree, but I have an annoying one in my backyard that's staring to push against the fence and it's covered in thorns. This was discussed a little while ago, what's the easiet way to "ring" the tree?
Use a chainsaw, then rot out the stump. Otherwise you're going to have a dead tree that could do more than lean against your fence.
I had a thing when I was working in Kuwait, and I haven't been able to even turn up anything similar on the internet: Feta cheese stuffed croisssants. Like, individually wrapped in a box of 12, from the grocery store. They were amazing, and I can't find even the merest whisper of them with my normally formidable google fu. Yellow and red wrapping, if I remember correctly.
One of the many variants they have is to use something like croissants for "single servings", but really it's still just two layers of pastry with cheese/sugar goodness.
Got a big ass slab of concrete for a back patio that is in the shade most of the day. Got a smaller slab of concrete for a front patio that is covered and is in the shade all of the day. Looking to stain it. Everything I've come accross says "let a professional handle it." Sorry, but looks like basic clean, powder, seal it and clean it to me. (My 3000 psi pressure washer should make it nice and pretty beforehand.) Questions are as follows, in order of priority... 1) How expensive is it? 2) How difficult is it? (Part of my pay is for handyman/carpenter duties, though I'm not on Nett's scale if that gives you any idea of where I stand) 3) What are the steps you recommend?
Are you looking at just making it a simple single-colour stain, or making it look like faux marble? Because the former is somewhat easy and very DIY. The latter is totally "hire an immigrant who's been doing it for 20 years to do it or it'll look like ass" territory.
Single color, basic, "make it not look like concrete." The house is an old ranch house, somewhere 70-100 years old. Even going over it with that gas pressure washer the concrete still has that dirt and age to it that just says "I'm old as fuck, leave me the hell alone and get off my lawn!" The idea is some kind of brown stain, like you would on an old piece of wood, to preserve and bring out what was already there. And because I know we have some history nerds here: Spoiler Where I live, in TX, we also have a house on our place with a historical marker. It was, and I guess still is, the original stage coach house along this rather famous wagon trail (now road). A creek that has been here forever runs through our place; right now it makes for good floods, during the dry months better bass fishing. Back then? The creek was a stopping place, where decisions were made about how deep it was and what was the safest way to cross it. The house was on the other side of it. The door frames are about 5.5 feet, the old wash room is in the same place with what looks like a bed spot, and the "general store" part has a half wall where on the other side is a living area.
I'm borrowing a buddy's floor jack and the wheels on two of the castors are rusted solid and refuse to spin. Even though it's my buddy's jack I'd like to be able to return it to him in better condition than what I got it, and after several attempts at getting rid of the rust I feel at this point that these castors are challenging my manhood. What's the best rust remover out there?
Take it apart as much as you can and let the pieces soak for a day or three in some penetrating oil. Just about anything from your local auto parts store will do. Then hit it with a wire brush and some elbow grease. Get down to some fine steel wool to finish it off. Then degrease all the parts and regrease the parts that should be. Or just replace the castors altogether. Probably not that expensive and way, way easier.
It depends, sometimes casters can be expensive, or hard to get, price it out first. Diesel works really well too for derusting stuff. Best thing for a rusty chain(bike/chainsaw) is to let it set in diesel.
I'm kind of guessing that he might have a cheap-ass floor jack using cheap-ass castors. I'm thinking that if it had "Snap-On" on the jack it wouldn't be all rusty.
Toss some red meat to the musicians out there: I’ve decided the time has come to learn to play an instrument. The two goals are to keep my brain active, and to eventually be able to play in casual/ amateur gigs without embarrassing myself. Should I choose the guitar, the bass, or something else? My initial though was to learn the bass, ‘cause I love Morphine, but am open to anything.
The nuts and bolts of bass are probably the easiest to pick up. You're dealing with 4 strings, usually no chords (though some players do use some), and for most contemporary music, the bass lines are generally pretty simple. I've been in several bands, and in one of them we didn't have a bass player initially. I enlisted my friend who played a little guitar (and let me stress 'little') and I arranged the songs in a way that made the bass lines easy. He didn't embarrass himself at all. That being said - being a 'true' bass player? Really tough. Having played drums, bass, rhythm guitar and lead guitar in a number of bands in my life, there is a world of difference between a guy that kind of plays bass to hold things down and a true bass player. True bass players are very much in demand and usually pretty incredible musicians.