Hydralic cylinders have teflon seals and o-rings that seal in the housing. Usually have a spanner nut ato the top of the cylinder you unscrew to dissemble the cylinder push rod. There no reason you can't reseal it other than if you can't find the right size telfon seals and o-rings. Again the age of the jack most likely the seals become harden and alow fluid to seep pass. any type of additive the will cause the seals to soften and swell up may revive the old jack. If and when you do get it resealed now you have to bleed all the air out. which is pretty hard and takes awhile. If the pump rod is pitted form years of contamited fluid it still may leak. If you want something to last for even then you have to have a routine maintenance schedule. On the jack this would be a good cleaning every couple of months, greasing the pivot points and changing the hydraulic fluid every other year. I agree don't ever trust a hydraulic jack when going under a car ALWAYS have a backup incase the jack suddenly falls, Yes this can happen when there is air in the system or an o-ring failure. Ususlly the hydraulic system will give you warning signs. like lost of fluid, jacking but, the push rod don't work right, or jacking something heavy and it bleeds down on you are all signs of potenial failure.

Thanks so much for the offer, Bob. We do have Cox Cable, and it is connected to the TV monitor. Our VCR-DVD is a Toshiba DVR620KU, and the TV is a Samsung Led TV monitor, SyncMaster, series 3, TA350 and series 5, TA550, whatever that means. I don't know which letters and figures may be useful, so am repeating them all. I am sorry for not having gotten back to this problem for several months. There has been illness in the family, as well as computer problems, which are now solved, hopefully, with the aid of a friend, and what with personal problems and job demands, I just didn't feel like concentrating on the TV/recording problem. What I want most now, and can't do, is to record TV shows. Not HD or HBO or anything--just a few KPBS or sit-com things. Our TV cable service is basic. A visitor showed me that with an HDMI cable, I can watch tapes and DVDs from the Toshiba unit, a step in the right direction. However, I seem unable to bring up anything on the TV screen that will let me record to either the tape or the DVD. There is no place to plug in a coaxial cable to the Toshiba, so I figure that any recording would have to be from signals sent from the TV. (In fact, even if I could send signals directly from the cable connector in the wall to the Toshiba, there would still be no way to select channels to be recorded.) The problem is that all the ports and other places for hitching the TV to the Toshiba are labeled "IN" and, unlike our old TV, there are none for "OUT". Well, Bob, or any other kind person, does it seem that there may still be a way to record to the Toshiba device? Even to be able to record to VHS tapes would be great.

The better answer would be a monitor could work. Not all monitors would work. Most have a 15 pin video connector. You'd need a monitor with a/v inputs AND a/v outputs from the satellite. There are some monitors that have RF inputs, but I'm assuming you're referring to computer monitors rather than video monitors. Possible, but not common. Then there's the issue of audio which will vary by the monitor. So it'll depend on a lot of different variables and there's no one answer. Your simplest and cheapest solution is a cheap tv. If you get one with a stereo headphone jack you could connect some computer speakers (or any speakers for that matter) that would give pretty decent audio. I have a 13" tv in my kitchen and the sound on it is great. I think I paid $99 for it about 10 years ago.

I dropped mine in the toilet as well. Had it in the jacket pocket, and it flipped out when adjusting clothing. What a shock! They say not to try to start it (I did). Put it in a container surrounded by rice for a period of time. Then DS took some part out (not the battery). I set the phone on the counter and turned on my hair dryer about 6' from the phone and let it run about 20 minutes. Then I put it on the TV cable box which is warm for 1-2 days. The phone worked after all that. Then I took the phone to Apple so they could look inside. Apple guy said he saw corrosion in it but I should continue to use it as long as it works. It never did stop working and would probably still be working but I replaced it with a newer model. The above practices to dry a phone are not recommended by the manufacturers (except maybe rice).