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Scored a caravan in a friend's forest with this old gas/electric heater in it.
The nearest electric post is around 90m away so I might run it only on gas with maybe a battery if needed.
But first it'll need some service as it wasn't used for at least a decade, any fellow wagon dwellers know how not to blow up?
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>>3009651
Primus sucks!
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>>3009654
Alright, does it just mean that it breaks down often or that it'll go full jihad on me?
Did they suck already in the 80s?
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>>3009706
That's what that crowd chants at Primus concerts. As far as the water heater, I have never even seen one much less used one, but I found a service manual here:

https://www.wanderlodgeownersgroup.com/downloads/PRIMUS/PrimusManual.pdf
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>>3009651
> how not to blow up
Leak test everything, don't put it inside if it isn't made for it because you'll gas yourself and explode at the same time

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>replaced a smart switch without turning off electricity and survived
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>>3000237
i had one of these on one of my old houses radiators and all it meant was it never worked at any hour of the day
hated that fucker
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I just fixed some wood rot and it feels great. I only put it off a couple months.
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>fixed my water heater all by myself (the fuse was off for some reason)
It's been off for more than a year.
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>discovered a baby gas leak on my furnace gas valve using soap
>tightened the valve all by myself
I've been smelling gas there for a long time, but I thought that was vaguely normal.
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This is a good thread.

Imagine buying both an impact wrench *and* an impact driver. Do you feel scammed now?
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>>3007230
I know exactly why they didn't add it, retards will go full gorilla and destroy every fastener they touch and then flip shit about it. You already see that with regular 1/4" impacts that have way less torque, I see people on here all the time talking about how they're useless tools that ruin everything.
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>>3009590
I think most people use impact guns wrong. The best example is lugnuts. Idiots will go to town on them not realizing there is no chance you're ever taking that off on the side of the road. The spec for most passenger cars is like 90 ft-lb.
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>>3007223
my impact wrench would snap any bit in your driver
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>>3009629
Different tools exist for a reason and idiots will argue they shouldn't until they run out of breath.
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>>3009606
We used shitty Craftsman impacts at my old shop for that exact reason. They'd get the nut to like 75 ft/lb and then you could do the rest with an actual torque wrench. You can do about the same thing with modern ones by timing it right but it takes more experience and technique and varies between guns.

finished the new electrical installation, starting the false gypsum ceilings that will hide all the cables n shit, and add insulation

I really gotta finish this shit, I started it almost 5 years ago, past 10 months I did more than 3 years, where did that time go?
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>>2994252
commie blocks are weird
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>>3009449
>roofing
just another hurdle
do you think I wanted to learn about electrical installation when I strated this shit?
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>>2994488
Here's the deal with that.
My father was a boomer. They tend to have accrued most wealth during the standard 30s-50s timeframe of their life.
Now, that has compounded incredibly for them, we don't need to care or complain for the sake of this explanation.

My father had everything, koi pond, pool, fucking you name it. I inherited it.
Great, of course. Through life circumstances I moved into that house as it was my childhood house.
When I was a child it didn't have all this shit and it was in disarray quite often.

What happened? THE KIDS FUCKING LEFT.
Now he's a boomer, with money, time, etc to take care of it.
For the last five years I've had it, it looks like total shit. I have three kids under 8.

I live on a boomer block. Every time I have soccer practice, they are mowing or doing some shit to their house.
Every time I'm dropping off kids in the morning, a boomer is quietly weeding their garden.

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moody weather, cba waiting for the first layer to harden to put the 2nd one

tomorrow we do 2nd layer, then I think I will remove the old tile glue on the ground, cus its probably quite a bit of weight

idk if I will manage to move in this year bros....
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>>3009553
needs another hand (layer)

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Someone threw out this chinesium karaoke system. The mixer/amp on the top of the unity is borked but the speakers and tweeters look solid. Would it be reasonably cheap and straightforward to turn them into passive speakers? There are lights attached to the speakers and the tweeters and speakers were all hooked up all-spaghettified to the amp's PCB, but I'm assuming I can bypass all of that malarkey and wire them up as normal speakers.
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>>3009609
>I'm assuming I can bypass all of that malarkey and wire them up as normal speakers.
Yes. You need to know the speaker's coil impedance and power rating, then match them up to an amp. Build a crossover to match each speaker's frequency response.
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>>3009612
This, Indeed.
Some Chinamart speakers use weird impedance, depending on whatever mystery meat components they have on hand for the amp. I've seen oddities like "10 Ohm".
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I took the LED's out of my bluetooth stereo by taking the housing off and removing the rings around the speakers, it SHOULD be just a few plugs to remove and some screws for the LED boards, I fucking hate rainbow ever-changing LED's so much

Hello, please help me. How to make a mechanism inside a cardboard postcard. Like in the movie "Valentine's Day 2001", I can't find it anywhere. Maybe someone has a diagram.
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>>3009559
https://youtu.be/HFtJ386rAOA

Essential Boomer
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>>3009310
>i've been doing it since before you were born kid, i know how it works
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>>3009210
sorry anon got busy with work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7e6IOdKfVw&list=PLRZePj70B4IwyNn1ABhJWmBPeX1hGhyLi
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>>3000989
Wtf is this
He's not even looking at his cut
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>>3000989
I learned some things from him, but the most important thing I learned is to lend out your tools to your neighbors. Even if they don't return them, loan them another. It's what Jesus would do.
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>>3009540
Honestly, it would be cool to have a neighbor network where everyone works together. But alas I am a loner not a loaner...

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Are these a scam or not?
I want something I can just hook up to my laptop on one end and connect a fuck huge antenna on the other end while being digital and shit. But half of reviews are shitting on it, the other half are praising it. What's a solid alternative then?
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The one I have is used to receive data from my backyard weather station and pass the readings on to Home Assistant. It's a bit overkill for that but works flawlessly.
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>>3009432
>trying to hear various IoT 433 MHz devices and so on.
AI silicone typed this
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>>3009132
Your late. Was messing with these back in 2007 when the wifi pineapple was hot...
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>>3009447
yeah they're a neat little curiosity without much use
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>>3009132
as others have said the antennas they come with are utter trash that won't pick up anything. but you can grab it and heil hitler around the room using your own body as an antenna. that's always fun.

i wouldn't go all-in on these with anything pricey if the point is only AMFM. maybe turning on your local radio first to realize how trash it is will make you take a step back.

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The eternal debate.
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>>3009869
> black
It’s been done.
And yeah, it’s also unbeatable. It’s true pro-grade, and the likes of all of you don’t get them. Giving them to you would be like throwing them away
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>>3009872
> it’s been done
Add this to the list of things nobody here can only dream about, but will never touch, and didn’t even kniw existed until right now.
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>>3009872
>>3009873
why do tradybois worship bbc to the point they overpay for commodity shit so everybody can see their queen of spades tramp stamp?
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>>3009869
Ryobi is TTI's best selling tools. Half of home depot is ryobi now. They don't need any help selling them
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>>3009882
>>3009869
i don't think i've ever seen a power tool marketing ad outside the panphlets of milwaukee tool sales at my supply houses
we're past the marketing stage for anyone making a good product
I want it to withstand the plumbing field? milwaukee
i want it to solve a niche problem and not be beaten up? ryobi
hand tools? varies by experience
generic non force tool for things like job site speaker? amazon china shit
uh simple as

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I no longer believe the Vaughan 23oz is the best general-purpose hammer. I prefer the Vaughan 19oz straight handle smooth face. This is now the correct opinion of hammers.

As you were.

Puzzle-test error: There is no object, only an image.
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16oz estwing is the only hammer a man should ever need
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>>3003066
i want a new (cheap) framing hammer
22oz seems most popular
24 are an anomaly and like $50
why shouldnt i get the 28oz picel?
discuss
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>>3005521
Would that be the curved or straight claw my lord?
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Okay I paired a CF2 handle with a titanium head and this might be my new regular hammer. I'd just like it more if the head were made in USA.

>>3008063
It's a good solid hammer. I prefer a magnetic nail start and wooden handle. Such as Vaughan CF1.

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I need help getting rid of these ants on my clothes line. What ant is this and what do I need to kill them? There are millions of ants. I miss air drying my clothes.
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>>3004584
The solution is consistently killing them in the area you don't want them. Bait traps work, find a reloadable one and just keep using it over and over. Borax and sugar is popular but you can get refillable bait traps, with poison, for about $5 so who cares. Find whatever they are swarming on, replace it with a trap, and then come back to clean and replace the trap once a day every day until the swarm leaves. Then find the next place they are eating until the queen gets fed up and just fucks off. It doesn't work quite so anthropomorphicly but that is essentially what happens.
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>>3006686
This anon fell for the bait trap scam. They never work and you have to use them constantly.

Only larva and queens can eat solid food, all others use nectar produced by larva/the queen. Liquid bait just kills the workers, what you do is soak paper towels or cotton balls in Borax and sugar. The workers take this to the larva/queen who eat it, this kills the colony when they die.

This method also kills wasps who feed in the same manner.
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>>3004584
Talc powder. But it has to be the real one, with asbestos. The new one, aka starch, doesn't kill them
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>>3004584
Precore 2000
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>>3004584
stop wasting money on bullshit.

1 can of this is all u need.

post your tractors
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>>3002924

As someone who just got a quote on a Kubota, I originally wanted the backhoe attachment. Salesman actually talked me out of it. Why? Take a good hard look at what you will be doing the most with the tractor, or what you will be doing the majority of the time. Turns out, I only needed the backhoe for some work. Mainly trenching and rock removal/moving. But that trenching, once done, that was it for trenching. Rather than drop $10k on the backhoe attachment, rent a mini-excavator for the weekend, or a week, for $300-600 and save my self the 10k~. Unles you are doing lots of trench work, or work specifically that the backhoe is needed for, odds are, no you don't need it. Turns out, I don't really.
The other piece is, saving that $10k, now I'll look at other attachments, cheaper ones like a scarifier/scraper, because I before I didn't have the funds with the backhoe in play. Now, I do have the funds absent the backhoe. That plus a front grapple with 3rd function for picking up, well, anything! Oh yea, and front forks. All cause I dropped the backhoe cost.

Something to think about.
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>>3008466
Or don't buy new and you can have multiple more-capable machines for the same cost. Not for everyone I'll admit, but still an option.
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>>3008458
>pirahana bar
you learn something new every day, this arrangement doesnt exist here at all, every shovel is straight edge. Propably because the smallest not asian tractor sold here starts at 70hp
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anyone here experienced with iso bus setups?
can this be done? the old lady doesnt yet have iso bus, im wondering if i can just connect a nmea2000 receiver via can to the iso bus
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>>3009343
IIRC NMEA2000 is based on ISOBUS, but I'm not sure about their cross compatibility.
I know that the marine standard is supposed to be able to run at a higher data volume than ISOBUS so it may not like the stepdown.

Hey guys, i want to make this sick hair clip but this bitch keeps on posting about it instead of a tutorial. What materials would i need and how would i make the scrolling text visuals? im obviously assuming some screen thing but other than that I DONT KNOWWW (ᗒᗣᗕ)
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>>3008622
>that LCD
i swear thats the same lcd also seen on vapes and shit, no i do not use toxic chemical dispensers, i find them in the trash for parts
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>>3007841
im making a tiny flexible screen that applies to a fingernail, you trim to fit. it will have a small gold wire that connects to the screen and slip in the nair bed or something to connect it to a box further up your arm under a sleeve
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>>3007841
>hair clip
No thanks.
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>>3009269
You don't shave your pubes, do you?
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>>3009318
What, because you want to suck his dick faggot?

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How should i start?, what to use?, pls tell me, and btw how much i would late in learning it?
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>>3008386
Give duolingo a try
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>>3009177
Unfortunately duolingo is kinda bad. It's good at teaching vocabulary but it does nothing except the most absolutely basic grammar and sentence structure.
>t. 400ish day streak in Finnish yet could not even order a sandwich fluently.
It's more like flash cards than actual language learning. Good study aid to keep sharp with little practice every day but you will need a lot, lot more than that green owl bastard.
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>>3008386
>>>/int/209973269
>>>/int/japan
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>>3009209
>>>/jp/ even
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>>3008386
Download the most coomable vn you can find and make sure it's the untranslated version.

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I need to connect this motor to this pipe, or the astronauts will die. The diameter of the axis is perfect, but how do I keep it from spinning inside the hole? Glue would be an easy solution, but is there a non-permanent one?
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>>3008371
Shaft coupler
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>>3008371
Drill through the pipe and the motor spindle, then insert a cotter pin.
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>>3008431
>I did this and now my peckerhead is turning purple
How come those have 9 wires in them?
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Set screw
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>>3008783
This.
Or find a short solid shaft with a snug fit. Bandsaw off a segment to fit the D. Silver solder inside the pipe.


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