BRIAN LIFE AND TECH

Hi all Problem with chain adjuster? The chain keeps loose its tension and requires frequent tension adjustment? It is with my Honda RS150. At every 200km to 400km, I have to tighten my motorcycle chain. that causing too much problem for me since I travel quite a distance from home to the workplace. Thread for chain adjuster got damaged just after 6000+km. Not sure why. After asking around, some people said this is a common problem with the original chain adjuster. Look at the picture below for more detail. it is quite a headache because it became my main problem every time I travel to my workplace. Solution: The solution was to replace the chain adjuster. Cost around RM25 per set. and replacement work is quite straight forward. It is easy to do work, however, you need basic tools. Procedures: 1) lose the nut on both chain tensioner/adjuster. 2) then, lose the bolt that holds the wheel. Remove the rod nut. 3) take out both old chain adjuster and...

Several weeks ago, when cleaning the house, I am accidentally drop my WD MyBook world when trying to rearrange its location in the house. This ending up damaging the hard disk causing me a lot of data lost. Luckily, some of the necessary data already been backing up on another NAS (Synology 2-Bay drive).   WD MyBook world that contained broken hard disk Disassembly of WD MyBook wold NAS to replace broken hard disk   photo of Synology NAS drive There is a lot of solutions on the internet how to reinstall fresh system on the new HDD on the WD MyBook world. One of it is from Polish guy from the website iknowsomething.com (thanks to him). It was my main reference when doing my firmware installation. However, I find a lot of difficulties, to get everything done firstly, with the hard disk wipe-out and secondly with the mdadm packaging not available in the Ubuntu package To make it easy, here I listed the procedure I followed till I managed to mak...