00:00I'm sure you know what these are. This, what is that, 30 years ago, Brookstone Indoor-Outdoor Thermometer, was one of the first companies to make these, but they're very familiar now.
00:20What this one has here is a minimum, see, there's 9.7 minimum Fahrenheit temperature, and now, since it's indoors, 68, because I just took it out.
00:39But I remember how many times I repaired this, and I'll show you how to do it.
00:48The first time, I just took it back to the store itself, when they were still in the local area.
00:56But you have the reset, and you have the Fahrenheit and Celsius.
01:02First, and you can see also that this broke off, and I just used some electrical tape or whatever I had.
01:16This unit here only requires, I think it's for a long time, too, it lasts, just one battery.
01:27And there's where it plugs in.
01:32Now, this cord is long enough, where I'll show you how I repaired it.
01:39First, let's clean it up.
01:43Got some Windex.
01:47Usually, you spray the Windex on your paper towel, because you don't want to really soak the inside of the electronics.
01:57I'll be right back.
02:02I just want to clean it up a bit.
02:04Also, like, on my outdoor pool, one of the best things you can get is that SOS blue stuff.
02:11Just, uh, don't use the Brillo pad on it, but try to get the drippings from the chemical off of it.
02:20See that?
02:25Side.
02:25Side.
02:27I'll finish up on it, and then I'll show you how to repair the main cord here.
02:36Now, I did notice with a long cord here, they definitely give you enough cord.
02:50And, uh, originally, it was probably, like, a foot longer, and I used to, uh, take off just a couple inches, but by being cramped in the window, like, when you throw it out the window, uh, over time, this could get destroyed by closing the window on it.
03:11You know, it just breaks up the wire a bit, so I went down a good foot this time, and there's two wires, and both of them, you know, it would look easy enough that it would work.
03:23But, uh, strip the ends of the wires, and then the ends of the, make sure you don't get too short here like I did.
03:32You know, over the years, I used to, you know, leave, leave a good amount of slack here so you could keep this.
03:42I don't know what would happen if you were just to leave the two bare wires outside.
03:50I wanted to try that, but I wonder if you, uh, I think you would need this for sure.
03:59Anyhow, if you try it one way, you splice the wire, connect just, there's just the two of them, and look at this as you're doing it.
04:10And if it has, like, weird marks on it, then try it the other way, where, like, positive and negative, I would think that either way would work, because it's still, you're still connecting it.
04:26But it does have to be, on this particular unit, it does have to be, um, one or the other.
04:34So, you can see now, see how close that is, which means it's fixed, and I put just a little piece of duct tape, or you could solder, um, on each side.
04:50And then, see, there's a white wire in there, and I think that was black, so you're talking positive and negative.
05:04But as long as, uh, you might want to put another one over both of these.
05:10So, let's go over to the refrigerator, test it out.
05:27Turn the light on.
05:28And I'm going to put this in the freezer.
05:37One sec.
05:38Which would be just as safe as, uh, a window sill, or closing a window on it, because you only have the rubber, um, the rubber gaskets on the refrigerator.
05:53And there it goes.
05:59Find out the temperature of the inside of the freezer.
06:0736.
06:1331.
06:14There it is, below freezing right there.
06:1727.
06:27I wonder how low it does go.
06:3119.
06:33I wonder if there is a difference in, from all the years I've owned it.
06:38With the sun beating on it.
06:40Let the fan's aim straight at it.
06:5415.
07:04Slowing down a little bit.
07:06But that's how you repair it.
07:10Good for another 10 years, maybe.
07:16We'll see.
07:18Alright, take care.
