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A Must-see Place in Taichung - Rainbow Family Village

In Taichung, there is an amazing village, where almost everything is painted joyful colors. People call the place as “Rainbow Family Village”, which takes up a few city blocks in Taichung. The whole village is full of romance atmosphere that many people go to there to take pictures. The site now has become a must-see place in Taichung. Family Villages is an old military dependents’villages built in the late 1940s and the 1950s and a lot of them have been demolished and rebuilt. The rainbow family villiage is a very beautiful art center and attracts many tourists from other cities or countries to visit it. As you can see, the village is painted by auto spray gun and paintbrush in colorful, whimsical art. The colorful painting covers the dull world of wall, door, mailbox, and corner, making the place extraordinary. Bright lively colors recall your inner child memories as you find what appears to be an endless seam of creative whimsical imagery. A sense of wonder and peacefulness is felt as you wander the tiny streets of this modest section of the big city.

The great pieced artwork is made by a 90-year-old street artist. He turned an old ordinary military dependents’ village into a lovely and colorful rainbow family village. I think he is just like a magician! Huang Yung-fu, who is now known as ‘Grandpa Rainbow’, originally from Hong Kong but used to live in Taichung. He is really into painting. Believe it or not, he has no previous professional trainings. He just picked up a paintbrush about 3 years ago and the whole neighborhood is his huge and borderless canvas to paint.

Almost everything in this village is painted with joyful colors and interesting figures or patterns. Blue appears to be the background color that is used the most in the village. I especially like the pastel colors on the window covering. By the way, if you also want to make your living place more colorful like the rainbow family village, but you are not sure you can do as the Granpa Rainbow did, you may use paint spray gun to create your special work. Painting with the tool is much productive and quicker than painting with a paintbrush.

Is Street Graffiti Art or Vandalism?

If you walk into the street in Taipei, you certain have ever noticed a lot of drawing or words on a public walls, black places etc. The drawings and writing can be black or vivid colors. Some young artist would use graffiti to show their personal feeling and attitude. Especially, they want to raise awareness of social and political issues. Graffiti has long appeared on railroad boxcars and subways. At present, paint, particularly auto spray paint, and marker pens have become the most commonly used graffiti materials. However, there are many people feel graffiti is bad for the city's image. They see graffiti as vandalism rather than art and think it should be banned because it makes the city look disorganized and messy. But for huge graffiti fans, all that bare concrete is too attractive to resist.

As far as I am concerned, it is a cool way to release their individual feeling except for some obscene or rude images made by spray gun or painbrush. I would not mind graffiti directly across the street where I have to look every day. Many of the street artwork is very creative and striking that often leaves a deep impression on me. I also much admired for the amazing street work some talented artist made. Moreover, I found a very interesting phenomenon is that there are a lot of graffiti writings in English, but rarely come across big, colorful Chinese characters saying. The reason is there are a large graffiti influences in Asian countries that mostly come from modern Western culture. Modern graffiti art appear a new trend that combine additional arts and technologies. It is called light graffiti, also known as light drawing, is the process of using long camera exposures to create stunning lighting effects. It gains popularity recent years and have gradually in place of the traditional graffiti.

Things That A Computer Technician Should Have

There is an old saying goes like this: If a workman wishes to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools.  With the working tools as complete as you can collect, your job can be done more efficiently.  As a network technician, there are generally ten items you should own, and you can also prepare a network installation tool kit for all these items.  Firstly, the hand tools like screwdriver is a must for you, and the screwdriver should at least be one large and one small type for different purposes.  Besides, the ESD wrist strap, which is the one that mostly forget by computer service technicians but at the same time, the most important item to prevent the electrostatic discharge damage on components.  

The USB flash drive, of course, is also a must-have item in your tool bag. But before you put your USB in your bag, you should first copy a virus removal tool in it so that you can solve the malware infection problem when the internet is unable to connect.  Meanwhile, a set of USB keyboard, mouse and network cables are needed for testing out defective input devices when you are troubleshooting.  The wireless router is also a convenient tool when you are solving the network problem, especially for home wireless routers problem.  

What's mpre, a PC power supply can prevent you from having to return to the site to perform a simple power supply installation.  A flashlight which can eleminate frustration and make you do the job easier to perform is also important to your network installation tool kit.  At the same time, tie wraps plaly the role of  organizing every cords and cables neatly, which can make you look more professional.  Last but not least, the portable air compressor is needed to have for cleaning dirt and dust on computers.  

Pros and Cons of RO Water Purification Systems

To drink clean water is a trend nowadays, and one of the most common ways to get the clean water is to choose a proper water filter system.  Among all of the purify systems, the reverse osmosis purifiers are the most common way for water purification.  The reverse osmosis is also known as RO, which is a system works by using pressure to force the water through a semi-permeable membrane and allow the pure water through, blocking anything larger than the water molecule.  

So, if you want to make your drinking water in the best purification, you should know the pros and cons of the RO water system.  In order to get rid of anything that is smaller than water molecules, the additional carbon filter is a must.  The carbon material can help to absorb all these things like herbicides, pesticides or chlorine.  The filtered water will not taste pleasant like carbon filtered water. However, RO water purification systems work well if you are just removing earth, silt or other large molecules from your water supply and RO purifiers require minimal maintenance and yet the whole process requires a long time to wait.  

It is important to have your water tested before deciding to buy an RO water purifier. The water test will tell you about the minerals and bacteria present in your water supply and these results will tell you whether RO purification is the best way to treat your water. Depending on the water test results, you might discover that RO system is the best water treatment option. A lot of RO systems come with carbon filters, meaning they are able to remove more chemicals and toxic waste and provide you with safe, clean drinking water.

 

The Benefit of Using A HVLP Spray Gun

The spray gun is widely used as painting equipment, and mostly fed by air or gravity.  The convenience of this pneumatic tool have replaced the traditional painting brushes and rollers for years, and the reason why people tend to use pneumatic sprayers is because it can work more effectively and accurately.  And the applications include painting on automobiles, machines, furniture and some equipment that have to be painted elegantly on the surface. 

Since the spray gun can be employed in so many fields, the types of the gun are various as well.  There are two main types: high volume low pressure and low volume low pressure sprayers.  In order to name the two types easily, we usually abbreviate them as HVLP and LVLP.  According to different level of the pressure, the sprayers will be in different working condition.  When you use a HVLP spray gun, you will find it very easy to finish your painting work.  Except for this one, there are still some other advantages of using high pressure sprayers.

Firstly, the HVLP spray gun can help you stay away from inhaling harmful chemicals.  The normal paint sprayers sometimes are not ideal for long term using because the paint additives or solvents are toxic, and it might damage our health if we expose ourselves in such working environment.  So, it would be better if you have another choice on tools.  Moreover, the HVLP spray gun provides you controllable paint while working.  It is important to know how to control your sprayers because most of the people have troubles when they are about to finish the work.  When applying HVLP one, some users like to add a thinner to the fluid.  In this case, the painting will results in dilution, and the fluid will be much easier to atomize the fluid.  

 

 

How to Make Jewelry with Butanch Torch

Do you want to make jewelry on your own? It will be easier if you have a butane torch first.  Torches are famous for its handy and portable feature.  If you are the beginner user, you will realize how convenient it is.  As follow, I’m going to share some of my experiences of working with torches. 

First of all, you will be ready to begin creating fused wire links after you gathered all the tools and jewelry making materials.  The butane torch here is to help you heat pliers.  Mostly, the material of the wire goes to silver because it is more flexible and capable of shaping.  However, if your wire is half hard, you will need to anneal the wire first so that you can work on it with ease.  Secondly, you need to coil and cut the wire links.  In this procedure, you have to coil the wire with flush cutters into rings.  One tip here to make the job easier is that you can flush cuts on both sides, so you will fuse easier.  Then you can file the edge, and the reason why for doing so is because the heated metal will not flow since the cutters are too straight.  Take jump ring for example, you will have to move the wire back and forth until the edges show up against each other.  Without filing the edge, the end might split up.  So make sure your wire ring is perfectly flat before moving forward to next step like heating the entire piece.

Finally, which is also the most important rule, is about joining.  Except for joining, you will have to heat the entire piece when fusing.  If you focus on joining with butane micro torch, you might burn away the metal and all of your work will be in vain.  Instead of wasting the metal material, you can start to fuse wire links by slowly rotating the torch around the entire piece.  After that, you can focus on the butane torch on the join to make your metal flow. 

Are you ready to start your work on making jewelry?  Whether you are a beginner or an expert on jewelry making, the butane torch is undoubtedly your best partner!  

 

How to Make Crème Brulee with Brulee Torch?

Have you ever seen the reality show called “Master Chief”?  If you don’t have the chance to be on the TV show to compete with other chiefs, you can try to be the master in your house!  To start your chief dream, you can try to make the delicious desert – crème brulee by yourself.  Before you start the desert, you should check all the tools you need.  For example, the brulee torch is one of the essential tools to make your dessert looks more perfect.  The easy instruction for the classic dessert is as followed:

First of all, mix the 2 cups of heavy cream, some vanilla bean and seeds in the saucepan by placing them on medium heat for melting.  Then, remove the saucepan from the heat and also remove the vanilla bean in the saucepan.  It would be better if you can preheat the oven to 320-325 degrees while doing the mixing.  Next, whisk 5 eggs yolks and 1/2 cup of sugar together in a medium mixing bowl, stirring them until they are smooth and creamy.  When it starts looking creamy, try to add the cream and vanilla you just mixed into it, but at the same time, do not stir them too hard because the extra bubbly may make your brulee fail to eat. 

After making sure that the stirring work is done, place the un-filled ramekins in a baking dish and fill it up with hot water for about half-way up sides of the container.  Then you can pour the egg mixture into the ramekins and start baking the dish for about an hour or so.  After 40 minutes for the baking, remember to check your dish every 10 minutes in case of over-baking.   When it is done by an hour, insert a knife into the center of the egg mixture to check whether it is okay or not.  Then remove the ramekins from baking dish and lay it onto clean dish towel to dry and cool.  Finally, sprinkle sugar evenly over the surface of the baked custard and take out the brulee torch, running it on top of the custard until the sugar bubbles and caramelizes.  You can also add some additional accessories like slices of strawberries and pieces of mint onto it.  Now you can enjoy the delicious crème brulee for your afternoon tea desert.

 

Five Steps to Learn About Butane Torch

The butane torch is recently being applied as kitchen gadgets, jewelry making and some glasswork.  The reason why the torch can be employed in such field is because this tool can create intensive hot flame to generate high temperature.  The flame usually comes from the flammable gas inside the torch called butane, and the temperature is usually high enough to melt metals.  Since the size of the torch is manufactured in smaller shape, the application is getting wilder. 

In kitchen, you can caramelize sugar in cooking by using the butane torch.  When you apply the torch to jewelry making, it requires some tips to accomplish the design.  Generally, there are five steps for you to know.  While you are using this handy tool, first of all, you have to verify whether your torch is filled with butane or not.  The butane is inexpensive, so there is no need to worry about the refilling, not to mention that it is easy to get in the market.  Secondly, you have to check and make sure that your working area is in a heat resistant condition.  The reason why this step is so important is because some of the items like wires can be affected by the heat and it might cause dangerous flame. 

After checking the safety, now it’s time to focus on the usage of the butane torch.  The first thing you have to remember is to hold the torch in your preferred hand, so that can make your work easier.  Then, pull the trigger and light the torch.  When the torch is lit, careful and slowly working is your top priority.  Remember, the temperature generates from the butane can be very high, so every user has to pay attention to the severe burns without doubt.  Finally, when the work is done, don’t forget to release the trigger and set the tool back to a very safe place to make it cool.  The best place to put the tool should firstly avoid from children since the torch can be very hot.  Also, keeps the tool stay away from something flammable because you would not like your house in fire caused by a small butane torch.

 

Soldering Metals with Soldering Torch

Soldering is a technique for jointing metals together by melting items slightly.  Most common tool for soldering is soldering torch.  The reason why we use torch to solder is because every kinds of soldering require high temperatures to escalate the strength of jointing. 

There are three types of soldering: soft soldering, silver soldering and brazing.  The soft soldering uses tin-lead alloy as the filler and silver soldering applies alloy, which contains silver.  The filler for brazing usually goes to brass alloy.  The temperature of the filler metal can be adjusted with the soldering torch.  When it comes to the tool, there are also different types of torches to choose from.  There are electric soldering iron, soldering gun, hot-air gun and soldering torch.  The major difference between them is the power they supply, and the soldering gun provides more power than any others while the electric soldering iron provides a wide range of tips for applying. 

One thing special about soldering torch is that this device uses a flame, which is powered by butane.  While using the soldering torch, you can feel free to work with small sizes soldering like jewelry work while you can also apply this device to some larger work like copper piping. Hot-air gun is specifically designed as a revise tool in soldering.  It is a tool that allows you to rework the component packages, and this task is not easy to do with other tools.  

 

Brief Introduction of Blow Torch

The blow torch, also called blowlamp in the UK, is a tool commonly used where a diffuse high temperature flame heat is required but not too hot to cause welding temperature.  It is a handy tool for applying lower intensity and more heat or flame for several applications.  Except for the use of cooking, it can also be used for melting snow and ice form driveways in some cold climate areas like the USA and Canada.  Some of the road repair crews may also use the blow torch to heat bitumen for repairing cracks.  

For the types of the blow torch, generally in industries, can be categorized into two types, gas and liquid.  In both of the types, the fuel tank is often designed in small way so that it can be easy to handle.  As for the refuel, it is usually be done by changing the fuel tank with liquefied gas.