A YouTube education

[Bobje]

Apparently you can learn anything on YouTube!
What's the last thing you watched on how to do something?

In the past, we've changed a heating element and a thermostat in the oven.
This week I've replaced my car key battery watching a video - saved me £10 😁

Not quite what you’ve asked, but,

I can’t travel abroad, for boring reasons to do with cost, and health, and the cost of health insurance, but I’ve recently been on some lovely first class train journeys across Canada and through Japan via, as Uncle Bryn would say, the You Tube.

Doing knots! Brillant.

Not answering your question but my random You Tube viewing is Tornado chasers. Love it!

How to turn a heel when knitting socks, darning, replacing the brushes in the washing machine, changing a bike inner tube

Very interesting viewing!
Hope you have fun exploring the world via YouTube @EveryKneeShallBow .

I've also learnt to crochet and lots of gardening tips.

What are brushes in the washing machine @RhinestoneCowgirl ?

I'm hoping to learn how to fix the stuck button on ds2's playstation controller via The You Tube.

It looks quite easy. Previous experience tells me it won't be.

The last thing it taught me was how to pronounce a Polish colleague's, who I was about to meet in person for the first time, name.

I always look on you tube to find out how to do things!
The last time I looked was to find out where to find the vin number on the car.

@Newuser75 that's just reminded me I also looked up how to disable the safety lock from one of the passenger car doors (could only open from the outside).

How to properly sew a school badge on a jumper…!

Ooh loads.
Fixed multiple kitchen appliances via the spare parts videos.
Made a wooden teepee for my pumpkins to grow up.
Sewing techniques are probably my most used.
Researching cruise ships and destinations.

Physio exercises after hip replacement, lace making

@Bobje Brushes in the washing machine are little sticks of carbon that are designed to wear down over time as they're in contact with the motor. When they wear down completely the machine stops working. But for a few quid you can buy new ones and watch a video to show you how to fit them.

It is my first port of call, most recently how to sew a dress from an online pattern although the pattern instructions are amazing I still liked seeing it demonstrated in a video by a woman who explained it all well.

We have with the help of Youtube; installed bathrooms, tiled, laid flooring, installed a Quooker boiling water tap, re-pointed the patio, cleaned Ds2's computer keyboard by removing the keys, basically any DIY task, any recipe I like seeing someone make it on a video. In case anyone wants some DIY people, Proper DIY, The DIY Guy, Gosforth Handyman and Ultimate Handyman are fantastic and for plumbing, Plumber Parts and MJ Tiff.

I watch youtube to learn about all sorts that I have no intention of doing myself, the wigs of Bridgerton behind the scenes, any Edutainment (Tom Scott, CGP Grey, Jay Foreman) Geoff Marshall and anything to do with trains, stations, the tube, engineering, how things are made, manufacturing, history of anything and everything, Hannah Fry, Jenny Draper and Joolzs Guides - history walks of London. I love Youtube.

Just last night I learned a little trick to reset my earbuds because they’d disconnected from my phone and the Bluetooth couldn’t find them. Magic!

Most recent thing was how to unblock a clogged toilet, using only fairy liquid and hot water and without having to even touch the toilet.

I was hugely sceptical but it worked a treat.

How ro open the bonnet of my new car. All the videos were American, so then had to reverse everything.

How to do a Rubik cube
Lots of crochet and knitting tips
General DIY stuff

6yo and I are unsuccessfully learning the ukulele on YouTube.

How to do a particular knitting stitch. (The video and the written description on the pattern were miles apart!)

How to change the seal on a washing machine. Saved me lots of money!

Was very grateful to the electrician who posted a vid showing how to wire in a replacement dishwasher front panel!

How to do baseball stitch - for sewing up certain knitted items.

Nothing really but I do love those posters who live in a van/car and how they make it livable.