r/howdoesthiswork Oct 12 '24

Tutorial Electric fireplace

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I bought an electric fireplace at a garage sale, and I know it worked because they had it running and I felt the heat coming out of it. But I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it running. No matter what I turn on or off, no matter how I flick the switches, I can't get it running. Can anyone help? Thank you!

r/howdoesthiswork Jun 15 '23

Tutorial My first virtual pet

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Can anyone tell me how this works

r/howdoesthiswork May 02 '23

Tutorial Thermostat with no feedback

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No idea how to read this thing. I’m guessing it’s night/day but is plus warmer or cooler, no idea how warm or cool. I just know it’s too hot even though it feels like the air is on. Interior of the building is cooler but by the windows it feels like the heat is on.

r/howdoesthiswork Feb 06 '22

Tutorial How does wheels work on a cart?

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I hope this is correct place to post in? I sometimes make up stories in my mind. One of the stories was about spaceship crash landing in a nice forest. The survivor was planning to put together a small simple cart to push stuff around. How to put wheels on the cart? I know that you can connect two wheels on an axle. But how to add axle to bottom of cart without any friction?

A simple tutorial with pictures would be nice.

r/howdoesthiswork Jun 18 '14

Tutorial How Does One Build A Reddit Shortlink?

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Reddit's Shortlinks are a convenient way to reduce a Reddit pathname into a more copy-and-pasteable length. The righthand sidebar contains a readymade shortlink. However, on some devices, that string of characters is inaccessible. So—you want to use the shortlink, you can see it and can't copy it—what do you do?

You make your own.

Reddit shortlink format

http://reddit.com/{keyGoesHere}    
http://redd.it/{keyGoesHere}

Example

A self-referent pathname:
http://www.reddit.com/r/howdoesthiswork/comments/28gpzg/how_does_one_build_a_reddit_shortlink/

The submission id segment:
28gpzg

The Shortlink:
http://redd.it/28gpzg
http://www.reddit.com/28gpzg

Inspired by

YSK: Each reddit post has a short link version on the side by /u/Danyn in /r/YouShouldKnow.

See also
redd.it: 30% less typing! by /u/raldi in /r/announcements.

r/howdoesthiswork Feb 05 '20

Tutorial How do you do this? How do you take a picture and just change the background??

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r/howdoesthiswork Jun 02 '15

Tutorial Escaping from Zip Ties

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r/howdoesthiswork Sep 25 '15

Tutorial HDTW | Baking Bread 101

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r/howdoesthiswork Jan 21 '14

Tutorial How Does One Gracefully Dismember a Wooden Pallet?

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r/howdoesthiswork Aug 04 '15

Tutorial The Ultimate Paper Airplane Glider In Action (+ tutorial) - My Best Ever Paper Plane

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r/howdoesthiswork Jun 30 '15

Tutorial Raising a Copper Vessel, Start by Sinking

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r/howdoesthiswork May 21 '15

Tutorial HDTW: Fast Marlinespike Hitch. For Pulling Wire, Rope

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r/howdoesthiswork Mar 31 '15

Tutorial How To Make A Flaming Zombie Cocktail

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r/howdoesthiswork Dec 17 '13

Tutorial How to tie an Eldredge Tie Knot (reposting fro/r/learnuselesstallents as requested)

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r/howdoesthiswork Jul 10 '14

Tutorial How Does One Create "bookmarklets" in Safari on an iPad?

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r/howdoesthiswork Sep 24 '15

Tutorial HDTW | Tying a Multi-strand Matthew Walker Knot

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r/howdoesthiswork Oct 09 '15

Tutorial HDTW | plastic bottle mouse trap

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r/howdoesthiswork Oct 05 '15

Tutorial Building Delta Kites - 3 Different Low-Cost Options.

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r/howdoesthiswork Nov 29 '14

Tutorial How speakers make sound

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r/howdoesthiswork Jul 10 '15

Tutorial How to Make a Bullwhip (in 15 minutes, with stuff from the hardware store)

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r/howdoesthiswork Sep 14 '15

Tutorial HDTW | Make Bump Keys the RIGHT way!

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r/howdoesthiswork Oct 02 '15

Tutorial HDTW | how to make a traditional homemade kite

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r/howdoesthiswork Feb 07 '14

Tutorial How stuff works

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r/howdoesthiswork Aug 27 '15

Tutorial HDTW | How to: Reuse a Plastic Zip Tie

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r/howdoesthiswork Aug 30 '15

Tutorial HDTW | Stringing a Package (Or Life Before Duck Tape & Zip-Ties)

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