Is it that deeply scratched? If not I might try to polish it up.

>>2991764
That thing lost 20% of its value the second you signed the paperwork at the dealer. In 200k miles it will be worth negative money as you will likely have to pay someone to get rid of it. Who the fuck cares if it is scratched? It has zero effect on its ability to operate and the value of the fucking thing is sinking like a stone every day that goes by. Drive the fucking thing, do the maintenance, and ditch it when it costs more to fix than it is worth. Scratched paint means nothing. Literally more effort than it is worth.

I don't do car paint . But to me it looks like those scratches can be buffed out

go to an auto parts store. Those dont go into the paint later, smoothing (lightly samding) the clearcloat and wax will hide that better than a paint pen. Therell be kits with several steps, but youll be surprises.

then to address the issue, i saw everything from comforters duct taped to pool noodles used to address this in condo buildings. just get creative.

AI should be banned feom Youtube. Also any that puts captioning in a video that has audio. I'd like to see a browser add-on that blocks this kind of stuff.

>>2985598
Vinegar Will do the same.

>>2985662
The Steam had to be kept at 550± Celsius almost exactly

>>2985599
Fpbp

this corrosive acid chemical reaction that eats iron oxide, should I just leave that on the steel, also derived from iron, underneath and expect no consequences?

that is a tool. you use it to chemically remove what is annoying to mechanically remove, but as others have said, you don't leave that on your car, rust is really the secondary issue; the thing you need to PREVENT is metal being exposed and then corroding.

But keeping paint perfect thru winter is impossible.
calling the fact that you can find something that corrodes iron oxide a conspiracy theory is pretty dumb

I was an agent for a year. Quit because home buyers and sellers are legitimately retarded and need to die.
>>2971954
This retard is a perfect example. I'm glad I quit that shit. Now I'm in aerospace engineering working with autists, but they're not nearly as retarded as the common dipshit in the house market.

>>2975226
I think I want a second tamale...

>>2986116
>He cried

Yikes.

>>2972081
>Buy whatever you can as soon as you can. Rents keep going up but your mortgage stays the same.

pretty much my thinking. I just retired at 62 with $3400/month combined SSI/pension, no debt, 3 cars and about $20K BTC.

I'm thinking the combo of Covid and upcoming end of Petro Dollar might be what finally causes the hyper-inflation Ron Paul has been raving about for last 50+yrs.

Prob is I've got too many options on location. Even if I had money or decided to go back to work and scare up another $100k in a couple years, and was moving into new area, I'd still want near Zero Down, just so if something goes real bad I can walk away and not have much money stuck in the house I can't sell. I've known lots of guys that got Foreclosed and even bankrupt and few years later they are buying another house.

>>2974429
>>Did you get info you WTF your new neighbors would be from the Agent?
>not sure what you are asking here? do you mean did we get information about our neighbors? I think you had a stroke while typing.
>to be continued

I'm thinking "neighbors" is one of the only things you really can't change once you buy, and depending on stuff could be the best or worse thing about a new house.

Is it gonna be "they will look after the place when I'm gone, whether I'm gone for an hour or a year" or "OMG, can't leave the place without a outside live-in Security/Caretaker due to next door neighbor".

Prob is all Agents seem scared shitless of Fair Housing Gestapo, including undercover agents, and that seems to cover ANY discussion of ANY aspects of the "the neighborhood".

I've heard you have to "disclose ongoing disputes" but that really only covers shit if Court Papers have been filed.

Knew a guy who bought a nice suburbs house, and even knocked on doors prior, and everything seemed cool, then the next weekend neighbor's "adult children" return and its two BIG bubba legit retards that pretty much camp out 24/7, sometimes acting like they MIGHT get violent at any moment. Standing on sidewalk outside the guys house in wee hours just staring. Never doing anything quite "actionable" or even "objectively objectionable" but still. Like a couple of XXXL dogs off leash. Like some horror/suspense movie.

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>>2991638
It's a Losi Desert Buggy XL-E 1/5, looks slightly smaller than an Xmaxx but still the same scale

XL-E, that's what I remember, awesome. E for electric I'm sure?

I also saw now that x-maxx is on version 5, and it has new tires that are reinforced with wires, that's crazy how it's taken this long to make that a default.

Biggest mistake I did was handing my xmaxx to a friend, blew two tires within seconds.

>>2991647
belted tires are good for speed, if you do any jumps or skatepark type bashing the air control when unbelted tires balloon helps a lot.

>>2991638
I've used my spektrum rtr radios and NB4+ out to around ~500FT/150M without issue. there's also fail safe settings on the flysky though I haven't messed with them.

I have not flown anything in 11 months. Tomorrow is supposed to be a good morning between the hours of 3 and 7.

I am split on a handful of models to take and I am open to suggestions:
>Stinson Reliant
>Tiger Moth
>Stearman
>Waco YMF-5
>Piper Archer
>Cessna 310
>Cessna 350
>Su-29
>J-3 Cub
>Sport Cub

By the way, if anyone has a Multiplex Minimag, Graupner Wilga 2000, Bo-209, Starlet or Ju-52, GWS Islander, Riccs/Hobbyking/Nitroplanes.com TB-20, or EasySky Yak-12 or Wilga, and are looking to sell, then please let me know.

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>>2977559
I just made a Volvo C303 conversion for this one, it's still WIP and I plan to add more to it (perhaps even an interior, but I'm already happy with the current status

>>2991537
>>2991566
>>2991572
It's pretty funny how the epstein class looked at China and went "damn I want that too"

>>2991566
>Not even China mandates spyware on 3D printers
I mean, yea they do, and a lot more
we're heading in a very bad direction, but China is by no means better, and has been where we're going for quite some time.
but maybe we should focus on fixing the problems instead of arguing over which place is worse, unless we only care about what lets us complain more

>>2991908
Based and true

>>2990333
Employment

>>2990452
>sell ads
You're a dumb boomer

>>2991829
Skill issue.

Nah I'm just foolin with ya. I honestly haven't noticed much issue, but don't paint enough that I probably would. I do know I hate yellow spray paint with a passion. It covers like shit for some reason. White seems to always clog up.

loose screws can be fixed by adding more material. i like match sticks, take screw out put in match put screw back in.
the tar, creosote from burned wood is a pesticide, handy to have when working in crawlspaces, if only for the placebo effect.
toasting bread in multiple layers of tin-foil, overlapping the seams makes carbon foam, good for extreme heat applications.
copper sulfate will etch most tools, so you can write your name on them.

>>2991922
heating the lid of a jar with your hand will loosen it.
emotion effects blood flow and thus perceieved temp

Nothing is too difficult for you to do. If you're struggling to do something, it just means that you either don't have the right tools or you haven't done enough research.

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>>2991947
>tfw the minimum amount of "research" you need for what you want to do is at the very least a doctorate in theoretical physics
>and the "right tools" cost hundreds of billions of dollars to build

I just use the sanding drum on my Dremel. Ezpz. You just have to not sand one spot for too long or it gets hot

>>2986091
They have stuff trust me

I use sandpaper for callouses on hand and feet, 180grit or thereabouts, you can tear off a piece and put it in your travel kit etc and always be able to lower callouses.

>>2988488
piss on your feet

>>2990300
i ate a whore's pussy last week i'm fucked

>>2992004
>use a hot plate

use chipquik
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kyaz4Zrd78

>>2992004
Get a length of heavy gauge solid copper wire and bend it into shape so that it makes contact with all the pins at once, then wrap the other end around your soldering iron tip a few times.

>>2992004
>Obviously the board won't sit flat on the hot plate
You can pile it up on sand or salt or whatever, it's what people do in a frying pan. Copper or brass or other metal shavings would be better, but sand works with enough time. You'd be reflowing every damn component though, I'd want to take those aluminium electrolytics off first so they don't boil.

The solid copper wire method >>2992012 is probably what I'd try, but it's still a pain, and somewhat prone to delaminating pads if you're insufficiently careful.

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>>2992010
I'd actually never heard of that but it seems worth a look, thanks. There is some knock-off version on Amazon called "fast chip for quik removal of ICs"...
>>2992012
>>2992017
Wire method sounds fiddly but worth a try (and I have wire, but not sand). It's the chip I want to save, not the board.

Given that I'm posting anyway here's a progress pic, I am hand soldering everything for my first board, but I might try the second using the hot plate. I need to make 4-6 of them. Actually I got to take the new hot plate for a test drive earlier than I expected, because the first thing I did was solder a TL074 upside down. Hot plate allowed me to reorient it.
I never thought I would take the surfacemountpill, but I can see the advantages.

>>2992035
>There is some knock-off version on Amazon called "fast chip for quik removal of ICs"...
You could always buy a chunk of bismuth for $10 or whatever and mix it with leaded solder until the melting point is nice and low. Indium and gallium are expensive, but a lead-tin-bismuth desoldering alloy should be decent and much cheaper.

>>2986892
I've got an electric version of this and it's great, but my lawn is tiny. like uhh poggers small

>>2986902
seconding this

I have computer/aBMS job so using a push mower is my happy place. No wires to keep away and no neighbor who freaks out. Its not much area to cover, just 300 sqft. But i did 3 of those as kid to earn money and i was flexible. Mow your grass every 4 days and you can have one of those hobbit/golf course lawns. I just upgraded my gardena with a basket to collects all the cut grass. By the way the mower is 30 years old and still sharp. Like self sharpening scissors. I used a scythe once but to keep the grass even is hard.

>>2986934
Does that need sharpening? I see a lot of brown tips. Otherwise looks decent for what it is.

>>2991856
1) I've never sharpened it,maybe could do it.
2)picture was during a mild drought last year, so probably why it was a bit brown
3) I don't have good grass.

>>2991689
It is hard to jam signals you cannot find.

is it a good idea to buy a used yasu ft-100d or icom 706mkiig as a newfag ?

>>2991769
what is the government? or some other nefarious actor.

>>2991851
what is very wide band jamming?

>>2991951
aka cutting off your nose to spite your face

>>2989622
I have ALL festool tools, but unlike the Rotex I posted, they have already been used by me, so there’s my fingerprints on them and I’m not gonna post my fingerprints on the internet to appease some colorblind faggot troll with a typical American “blacked” obsession.

too much like fester

>>2988332
>>2988442
>>2988443
now that it's been announced: https://www.kregtool.com/kreg-edge-loose-tenon-joiner.html

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>>2988317
We all know who the original was.

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>>2988317
Uh-oh!

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>>2991997
Lets talk about Craftsman. The most common of their early saws you will see are the top row in picture related. Notice the circular control knob at the front of the arm? They are okay machines for the time. Not good, not bad. Very middle of the road. No where near as good as a Walker-Turner, or even the industrial DeWalt/Rockwell models but better than their shitty models. That ain't saying much though. Pay special attention to the blade guard. That is how you know it was an earlier model. It is important.

The dogshit models are by far the most common. Please take note that there is a black and aluminum 'early' model in the mix. See how the guard is different? That is when they started going to shit. It is a lighter casting then the original and it is a sign that everything else about the saw is cost cut also. Why does this matter? Two reason: accuracy and safety.

All these lighter duty machines, just like all of the shitty lighter duty machines, flex more when you make cuts. This can throw off your cut but also makes the machine lose its 'zero'. What does that mean? Let say you need to make a bunch of miter cuts. You set the machine to the angles you need, double check them with a protractor (because you always measure twice before you cut), and start making cuts. After a few cuts something is off. You check the angles with a protractor again and the machine has 'moved'. All the set screws are still locked in, nothing actually 'moved', and yet now it is off. That is what happens with shitty machines. They whole fucking arm or column will flex and fuck everything up.

What about safety? Well, remember how I said Sears had to recall all of their machines? Yeah, because their blade guards were dogshit and they refused to add new safety features as they became available. These are the machines that chiefly gave radial arm saws a bad name. It is best to just avoid any RAS was Craftsman or Emerson branding.

>>2991995
> dewalt
That’s funny, i didn’t know dewalt used to be a real company

thx everyone.

I guess I'd better take and post a pic of any RAS I'm thinking of getting, and wait a day.

Or more likely just stick to chop saw and table saw.

I used to work for a specialty contractor that had a nice mobile stand with "wings" for chop saw, and I had a Makitia table saw on factory stand and it just so happened to be a perfect height match to my old Warner folding ladder with a scaffolding plank for run off table.

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>>2992019
It is kinda sad. A lot of tool brands, baring a few exceptions, used to be real independent companies that made decent products in the USA. Stanley Black & Decker alone has something like a dozen brands they have gobbled up over the years that they don't even use anymore. That is on top of the 20 or so they are still using today. Blackhawk, North Bros/Yankee, Defiance, Russell Jennings, National Hand Tool, New Britain, Gage Tool Co., Van Dorn, and J.A Chapman were all different companies gobbled up by Stanley or Black & Decker over the years only to be taken out back and shot. 'Stanley' themselves was originally two different tool companies found by two men that were cousins that merged decades later.

DeWalt is an interesting case and it actually survived much longer than most. They were purchased in 1960 and they didn't get the axe until 1988. Two executives at B&D bought the rights to the original radial arm saw designs when B&D wanted to shut down the operation. They formed the Lancaster Machinery Co. and used the DeWalt name for a short time. It reverted to B&D but I don't know the details of how or why. Lancaster Machinery folded up after about a year but some new owners picked up the rights and formed the Original Saw Co. They still make radial arm saws in the USA to the classic DeWalt design.

>>2992026
Something to keep in mind is that the RAS was originally designed to be an industrial crosscutting tool at sawmills. It wasn't until the DeWalt ones started having the marketing department come up with a ton of crazy ways to use it, like setting the blade horizontal, at belly height, sticking out past the edge of the table and sliding a sheet of plywood through it. Or using it as a shaper.

A lot of modern users actually spot weld theirs so they hold exactly at square.

This channel does a lot of interesting joinery work and often uses an RAS: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Tmm5Xet7OJw

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>>2964244
I was team driving once with a female once and couldn’t piss in a bottle so we stopped at a Denny’s to use the bathroom, asked to do so, was told the bathroom was for customers only. Told Ms. Bitch the waitress that in 5 seconds I was going to take a piss in the bathroom or in my pants, “right here in front of you.” She told me to go outside, I looked her in the face and just unloaded right there.

Best piss I ever took. They were free company pants anyway. She called the cops and they told her she should’ve let me use the bathroom. That was of my happiest moments. It’s the little things in this life, ya know?

And yes we did. Only black chick I’ve ever banged, actually.

>>2988633
Homeboy pulled the ol' Master Shake

https://www.tiktok.com/@teeheetootas/video/7438354315246390536

>>2964256
If they charge for it, just steal them from your neighbors room

>>2964283
You make the world worse

>>2987670
it takes no time

>>2991390
Very noice

I totally would've used them to trim my horse's hooves

>>2989099

>flow hive
garbage

the pro nucs are nice to have though, and you got fun colors

>>2991869
>garbage
In what way?

>>2987219

make sure you change the lower ball joints on the sequoia

>>2991902
expensive
plastic frames break easy
bees rob the honey as you extract it
not interchangeable with other hive equipment

>>2991976
Whole thing presumably uses 2 cables, one live, one neutral. Neutral presumably gonna be common and live switched separate for fan and light. Depending on what the chain did, the light switch could be in the chain switch (the shitty black plastic box) or you could have a third incoming wire for the light from a light switch. And then either live or neutral goes into the black plastic chain switch and gets switched there. It's extremely easy but if you have absolute zero electronics knowledge then it will be a bit of an uphill battle. Good news is that as long as you don't touch live wires, the worst fuckup you can make is a dead short that will blow the breaker anyway.
You also kinda have to decide what you want to fix, because fixing the chain switch is a simple mechanical thing that likely requires no electronics work, but now your dad disconnected some electrical connections for no reason, so now you have to figure out how those go back together.

>>2991976
good luck because ceiling fan switches are a rabbit hole, and there are all sorts of them, 2, 3, 4 wire and most of them are not interchangeable.

you can try googling the numbers on the switch but... good luck.

>>2991976
The light is controlled by a simple SPST pull switch that opens and closes the hot supply. The fan is controlled by a SP3T pull switch that connects hot to three different taps on the motor coil.

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>>2991976
Fan dont work because neutrals are disconnected
Pull chain thing is broken
Buy new pull chain thing with three speeds
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Gardner-Bender-6-Amp-Single-Pole-Pull-Chain-Switch-GSW-34/206079662?g_store=1913&source=shoppingads&locale=en-US&fp=ggl