As most of you recall, when our household has a problem of any kind, my sweet hubby and I try to fix it ourselves before we call in reinforcement, and before I call in my sweetie, I try to fix it myself.  I’m just like that. I can’t commandeer it. My dad was a do it yourselfer, my brothers both grew up with a wrench in their hand, and their bicycles up side down, more than right side up, and even my mom would try tackling something herself.  My relative Jack, along with Louie, say, if together,they can’t fix it, or figure out how to make it work some other way, it just can’t be done.  It’s genetic.  It gives me fine fantastic satisfaction to fix something that someone else has given up on (hence, thrift store shopping!)… and if I do say so myself, (breaking arm, by patting my own back…ouch!) I am pretty mechanically predisposed. I have to be, because I sure lack in the ‘book smart’ department. God thought I needed ‘something’ to gain me through, so mechanically inclined, I am…..but I couldn’t figure out this one.                            The bottom left corner of the control panel of our 13 year old (and NOT excessively used) microwave panel was loose. It was getting looser (how can that be?). Louie and I for the past few weeks have commented on how it needed ‘looked at’, but that is as far as it go. (Well, in all fairness, I theory we ‘looked’ at it over a dozen times, but we just didn’t do anything about it.)  This morning, I got up, and unhesitating that ‘today was the day’. I looked for screws, and found one, but when I removed it, couldn’t see it’s significance, so I put the screw back in, and did not forward movement a thing. I thought a bit, and tried a couple other things, but failed….so I went to my computer and started doing searches for my microwave copy, and searched for a pdf manual. (Am I the only one who can’t find their appliance manuals?)That failed, so I ‘googled’ my question on how to fix a untied control panel. I found a youtube video, and within 58 seconds, had my answer on how to remove it, or to at least see what held it in.  I didn’t ado watching the rest of it, but here it is.

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