Workbench contributor and engineer Duke Evans writes that he has repaired many a circuit board trace with bare wire. In his years of circuit board repairs, Duke has also noted that some older ...

One of the most common parts to fail on a single-phase HVAC system is a run capacitor, so much so that we sometimes refer to junior techs as “capacitor changers.” While capacitors may be easy to ...

Kristin is a lead editor at Forbes Home and has nearly a decade of professional experience as a writer and editor. She's previously worked at sites like Talking Points Memo, Insider, Delish, Angi and ...

I have this speaker that I took out of my old school BMW(yea I know their stock speakers blow, espeically when they are 13 years old) that has a capacitor that has a lead broken off. I had previously ...

Scoring a pair of old, well-constructed speakers at a yard sale or thrift store isn’t unusual, but those old speakers may need a little TLC to get back in prime, proper-sounding shape. In this ...