I am not an expert of anything except telling people what they shouldn’t do.
They say that we learn by experience and I have that experience.
I have done more dumb things than anyone else I know. With being a professor of what not to do, I am probably the Einstein of the subject. I tried to repair a window air conditioner once. I had all the pieces laid out on the dining room floor. I washed every piece and laid them in a row. Unfortunately, when it came time to put the parts back into the air conditioning unit, I did not know what piece went first. That was when we decided it was time to purchase a central air conditioning unit. We once had a space heater that hissed every once in a while. I knew it was the sound of fuel leaking out of the nozzle. I had soldered many things, and I didn’t think it would be a big deal to put a bead of solder on the nozzle. I wouldn’t even be touching the flame to the nozzle. I would heat the solder and drop a bit on the nozzle. Instead of repairing the space heater, I had to go out and buy a new one. The new space heater had every safety feature possible so I couldn’t touch the insides of it. My wife trusts me to not touch anything. She said she trusts me with her life, but she also knew she could trust me to break anything I try to fix. I’m not allowed to touch anything that has to do with HVAC or electric, or plumbing, or …