random lj link

It looks like LiveJournal has managed to get rid of most of the spam and fake LJ accounts. I've clicked on the Random Journal link bunches of times this evening, and all the pages I've gotten, unlike the last time I tried it, have been real journals. Many of them are in Russian, but at least they are real. This one has some neat photos. Apparently they have zombie-philes in Russia too.

Fagor "Splendid" Pressure Cooker valve reassembly

The first time I used my new pressure cooker, while trying to wash it like the instructions said, the pressure valve came apart. It was difficult figuring out how to put it back together, so I wrote down notes on how to do it. I'm posting this here in case anyone else has the same problem and does a search.


Fagor "Splendid" Pressure Cooker

If the valve/dial piece comes apart, it reassembles like this:
the grey piece goes over the black stem, with the flat side towards the bottom, and the small and large black tabs at the top aligned into the small and large slots of the grey piece

and then the spring goes over the black stem, inside the grey piece, with the tighter end of the spring towards the bottom, and the end of the spring gets pushed up over the 4 small black tabs sticking out on the bottom of the black stem.

Once the valve is reassembled, it can be placed back into the pressure cooker's lid by aligning the grey slot in the valve with the black tab in the lid's opening, pushing it in and turning it.

In the above, "bottom" refers to the side which is on the bottom when the valve is correctly placed in the pressure cooker's lid, and with the lid on the pot in cooking position.