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I'd like to know if anyone used linseed oil paint on wood and metal and what's their verdict on it, pros and cons.

I also want to know if it's worth making linseed oil paint, there aren't that many stores nearby selling linseed oil paint for hardware purposes.
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>>2863452
He meant brittle. It gets brittle
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>>2863109
I've used it as a foundation on rusty steel a lot. Brush of the loose rust, soak in linseedoil with some thinner (1:1 to 1:2), let dry, and the rust is sealed. Then throw on a layer of linseedoil / lead oxide (or iron, if you don't trust yourself to use a dust mask properly) and it'll never rust again.
Did that on the bottom of my truck after fixing it, and so far, it still looks pristine.

On wood, my experiences haven't been that good. The linseed oil seems to come back out of the wood when exposed to the sun, and it gets sticky. Though that may also be some influence from resins (needlewoods, not sure which ones) mixing with the oil.
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>>2863536
or you could brush on linseed oil on already hot metal and then torch it for a while till it is dry and black. that's a traditional method here in my cunt to make metal last. probably same for many other countries out there
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>>2863332
You buy a pigment and add oil according to the datasheet soecified oil number. Then thin with turpentine and mix in a mortar. Synthetic anorganic pigments mix with the least effort
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>>2863109
Bump, just because I've only used linseed oil, once and had no idea it was so versatile.

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what can i do with an empty shipping container
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>>2861764
This whole thread
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>>2864943
>coniferous fags
>high tree canopy
>no camo
>no sound insulation inside or out
If you wanted any more proof of that a shortsighted jew wrote the script of that goylop...
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>>2861769
28.77 metric tonnes

>>2862006
There’s a shortage for good ones, but bad ones are often available at ports. Transport costs are often more than their weight in metal. They’re about 3 tonnes heavy so maybe $600 in steel and smaller scrap yards won’t take them because they have to be taken apart
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>>2866292
yee it's supposed to be an mi6 dark site, someone in the uk iirc. the show is 'killing eve', some femcel assassin lesbo b8.

>>5715604 <- vid related, titled 'negro fatigue'.
scene where the schizo thot is waiting for her azn lover to show up at a crime site, some bsdm cuck in amsterdam tortured and hanged upside-down to bleed out, to her disappointment some negro shows up and ruins her gooner moment.
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>>2866321
oh fug wrong board link.
>>>/wsg/5715604

I really have a thing for rustic looking raw concrete structures. How hard would it be to cast your own conrete panels and somehow slab an inhabitable building together? Picrelated.
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>>2860962

Best case scenario you will get the redneck parody of a concrete mass. Something between gipsies atrocities and Mordor's orcs constructions.
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>>2863615 >>2864235
A neighbour used these. He put it together like Lego (not sure if there was any glue involved. He stacked up the entire structure in a few days with rebar, and hired a concrete pouring service and filled it all up.
Others thought the immense pressure would make these burst, but they held. The expanded polystyrene is kept after the concrete sets and acts as thermal insulation. The building still stands, and he is very satisfied with the result.
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>>2863615
Forget that entire post.
The 2K boxes tend to be "WWT" (condemned for maritime use) due to being beat to shit with bad end door gaskets. Their bottom shape is not flat and if buried a water trap.
Containers don't make great spall liners and as an experienced and successful container use no fucking way would I be stupid enough to bury one.

If you must have a bunker you don't need a container to build it. Using surplus steel tanks is far wiser because their outside does not have water traps and cavities concrete won't properly fill, and because container walls are weak without reinforcement.

Get surplus preferably cleaned steel storage tanks then do most of your welding and fab above ground. Military bunkers tend to differ from fantasy hugboxen in often being partially above grade for easy access.

You will never build it but wagie dreams are a fun distraction. If you want just the hugbox then decorate the inside of a container and you can have your dream for less money since the view without windows will be the same.
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>>2860962
concrete canvas over simple wood molds and can be reinforced with rebar/fibre and more concrete.

>parkside 25 unit combination spanner set for 26 europesos
Worth it bruvs?
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>>2865852
>I wonder though, has anyone used the soldering station? I have an occasional need to solder, so I usually ask a friend.
they are bad, they are pyro graving tools reused as irons, and you wont find new tips easily. like i dunno why the dont use a chinkshit desing as many other things they sell instead of redoing that bad iron in diferent ways
t. i suffer two of them, one without control and one with temp "control" (there is no feedback)
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>>2865845
I bet they are made from high-quality chrome-vanadlum steet, matt chrome-plated, with pollshed heads
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>>2865798
Based LIDL enjoyer
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>>2865952
Maybe for the middle one IF you're in the market for these type of pliers. Those other two should be thrown back in to the kiln they came out of.
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>>2866273
>>2865952
Those soft jaw pliers come in useful once in a blue moon for chrome plumbing fixtures.

As for the other two, I guess you can never have too many pliers. But with pliers like that, it all comes down to the quality of the steel and heat treat.

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Looks annoying as shit to use
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>>2866082
>scottish flag
>scottish flag again as part of union jack
lmao what a retard
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>>2865510
How good are basic ass Stanley tools. I gotta get a set of screwdrivers to replace my Jacked up Tesco ones. I'm not a professional contrctor or anything, but I do need something that won't break and go a size down when it meets a difficult screw.
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>>2866212
I've had decent luck with Stanley stuff.
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>>2866212
Better than no name generic stuff. In Yurop, the Stanley power tools look like rebranded Craftsman. And a few years back, Walmart used to have some Stanley hand tools and they were the better option if you wanted something nicer than Hyper Tough.

is it fair to say that if a laptop broke and the warranty expired it goes in the trash.
i doubt anybofy kniws how to repair a laptop anymore.
>send it to hp, lenovo, asus
i bought a no brand lapto
cost me $300
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>>2866132
No. You sell it on ebay for dirty cheap, people like me repair it and make a profit or disassemble it to sell for for parts if it really is unfixable.

You're just retard.
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>>2866133
im in thailand the shipping alone might be $60 id sell it for what $50?
not worth it
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never mind i fixed it. i just opened it lifted the puty lipo battery and put back together amd for some reason tywt did the trick.

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Slotted is the white man's screwhead.
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>>2865905
both but phillips is probably more common.
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>>2865905
>Canada have robertson drywall screws

never seen them
drywall is probably the only application where camming out is a good thing
and robertsons will only cam out after trying to twist your arm off
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>>2848851
Why do people on here keep pushing this meme? Slotted screws are utter trash for trash people.
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Pic related is the only time using a slotted screw isn't complete ass
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>>2866071
Because trash people love posting trash.

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I grew up fucking around on this thing. almost 50 years old, and still going. dad gave it to me last year. it's out of retirement and up to it's biggest work ever. equal part acreage mower and farm utility vehicle.

I set two 4×4 posts this evening. 4 feet out from north exterior wall of our solar shed. 88 inches apart. my plan is to take a single sheet of 7/16 ply I have on hand to make a roof. attach 2×4s around the 4×8 sheet 3.5" edge up, then have one going across the middle for strength.

I will hinge mount this new roof panel to the existing shed roof lower edge. it is already low @ 5 feet. I set the two new posts at 45" tall. with the new roof hinge mounted I can lift it up to drive under, then once I'm off the dynamark, I can lower the roof and latch it to the posts that it will also sit on. that way, I don't have to do some awkward ducking while driving move and bang my head when parking.

the solar shed roof is at a 30° Pitch. South wall is 13' high down to 5' for best solar angle. there is also an 8" overhang which makes my attachment point even lower than 5'.

that's the plan. I'll update as I go.
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>>2866163

for the record, he turns 84 in a week.

we built the entire solar shed, seen in photos, together. every timber, screw, door, hinge & shingle. we even dug the foundation prior to pour. finished it December 2023. 3 days after completion, he went in for a routine stress test. they found a 95% blockage in his widomaker. put in a stint & we were installing the wiring, outlets and lights inside the shed 5 weeks later.

the man is a machine. he is who I pattern my life after. good fathers raise good men.
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>>2866167
>turns 84 in a week
I turned 81 last April.
I spent the weekend showing my grandson how to put up tile for a counter back-splash.
It's only fair. I did tile counter-top and backs-plash for his brother a couple of years ago.
My son (who had his 57th birthday last week) and I work on something most weekends.
Installing underground electrical wire to a sub-panel we're installing is for next weekend.
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>>2866171

You're a fucking Rock Star.

Real Men, like yourself are a dying breed... no offense. I hope your Kids took up your ways and mindset. sounds like you were a great skill & drive example. it took me a LOOOOOOONG time to come around. I was a an entitled twat growing up. he still taught me, and I don't know how he did it. around 23 I got my shit gathered up. 24 I was a homeowner. I was able to do my own car and home maintenance because of him... with him physically there 100% of each and every crisis, to teach me the ways.

society owes men like yall a debt.
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>>2866173

(same anon)

not only did I become a functional homeowner at 24, I went on to make a career out of trade work, all because of the skills he taught me. I now own a nice, custom built home, and DIY solar... again, all because of skills he taught. I am a jack of all trades, and master at many.

I would assume that my DIY abilities save me annually in maintenance costs and farm/home construction, equal to my paid salary at my trade work job.
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>>2866176
>I would assume that my DIY abilities save me annually in maintenance costs and farm/home construction, equal to my paid salary at my trade work job.

Easily the same here, but its kinda a catch 22 because I find myself buying more broke down shit to fix because I can do it so cheaply. And now I have entirely too many projects...

I recently got these. Are the handles meant to come off so easy?
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>>2864349
>That's normally how you'd attach a tool that's meant to transfer force sideways (like a shovel), not something that's meant to transfer force straight.

Wood chisels in normal, perfectly acceptable operations and techniques are used in ways that direct loads sideways all the time...probably the most common area would be chiseling out deep mortise pockets and prying chips up and out (like a shovel), sometimes using the shoulder of the hole as a fulcrum.
If you look at high quality large mortise chisels, that kind of mount is pretty common for that reason...its also not unusual to use a sharp chisel and an almost vertical approach to scrape sideways and flatten out the bottoms of holes, that's like doing the same thing with a shovel or a hoe.

Woodturning skews are another kind of chisel that does almost all of its cutting in that same manner to shave off and cut grooves and such. They generally don't use that socket mount but they don't need to; the serious force on a lathe is developed by the tool and concentrated between the work and the fulcrum of the tool rest. All the handle needs to do is let you control the feed rate to minimize the loads...it's not used to drive the cutting edge.

Socket mounts are usually seen on chisels that get beaten into wood and used to pry out big chunks of waste material, and/or to work with the cutting edge way down in a hole with restricted approach angles.
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>>2865148
Just to clarify...when I said "tool" in the following I meant the lathe supplies the force and not the operator-

>the serious force on a lathe is developed by the tool

but in this part the "tool" in "tool rest" is the skew chisel.

>...and concentrated between the work and the fulcrum of the tool rest.
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>>2865125
>in use centuries later

Why do I care about disposable tools outlasting me? Handles are easy to make if one must.
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>>2863279
kek cant argue against that, spot on
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>>2865925
I have two chills like that with the black or blue plastic handles. They hold an edge decently but I don't use them for fine working

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So I have a well it's filter is broke. I want to be able to drink water without plastic in it. Is there anyway to make a handheld water filter without plastic? [pour dirty water in the top, clean water comes out]
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Yeah, it's called paper. There is even such a thing as filter paper.
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>>2864013

Does it have to be handheld or can it be a stationary setup?

If handheld, maybe you can build one out of a non-plastic container or piping and activated charcoal, with coffee filters to hold the charcoal. Maybe sock the filter over the top of a pipe, secure it on the outside with string or rubber bands, and leave enough of a pocket inside the pipe for the charcoal to sit in. Repeat for multiple stages of filtration.

Plenty of designs for water purifiers online, the principle is simple.

Making activated charcoal is also not too difficult, just need to crush up normal charcoal a lot and maybe add an acid (even just lemon juice) and dry it out. Personally I think crushing it is enough, since you just need to increase its surface area.
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>>2864013
You should repost this. It sounds like you think there are actually "microplastics" in your well water.
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>>2864514
what if he is living on an abandoned plastic mine
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>>2864013
Boil for a long time to kill the germs, ideally under pressure, centrifuge the water so everything large gathers at the bottom, then pass it through a thick (like at least 6in) layer of activated charcoal to remove mineral impurities and heavy metals.

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Millennials and zoomers are finally abandoning vanlife and the prices are dropping. I want to travel the country but even a local motel is $100 a night now. I'm an expert auto-electric tech and have remodeled houses to rent, and i now work from home in IT. Ive never dealt with water damage or the exquisitely cheapass materials RV's are made out of. Every single RV under $20k looks like this; water damage, siding buckled, some are already stripped down to just the structure. I'm already avoiding anything fibreglass and looking purely at aluminum/wood structures. What am I getting into trying to repair something like this?
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>>2864860
>bodywork is something almost no one understands especially from scratch
don't project your retard on us retard
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>>2864853
>Every single RV under $20k looks like this
you're looking wrong. you keep looking the same places in the same way and yeah you're going to keep getting the same result.
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>>2865894
I have seen plenty of perfectly livable RVs on Facebook for $3kish. Fancier 20ft travel trailers can be found closer to $7k if they're more recent.
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>>2864853
Almost none of the wood framed RVs and trailers you will find are worth the effort of restoration if they've leaked as much as picrel, and a huge percentage have.

Not only are they built to be lightweight, it's done in the cheapest manner possible so that unlike boats and aircraft that are also lightweight but fixable, RV wood is pure shit...you might have a spot where a wooden part has deteriorated and come unfastened inside a wall and when you peel off the covering to get to it you learn that it was damaged when originally installed by a staple splitting its crappy grain structure, and just covered over.

If you want something restorable you want a metal frame. Once you know that is solid adding the skin isn't hard and there's tons of sealants to do it better than the original factory job.

Also, a lot of leaks in wood framed RVs open up from the flexing and twisting that wood frame construction allows so that's another reason to get a metal frame.
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>>2865891
You buy the rotten particle board and moldy foam RV then you dumb nigger. When the shop needs to work on the engine where are you living then? Dumb nigger.

Why are 7-1/4 circular saws the standard outside of framing? I know they’re the smallest that can make miter cuts in 2x, but it seems like the times non-framers are going to need to do that you’d use an actual miter saw instead? Meanwhile as small as a 4-1/2” makes a 0/90 degree cut through 2x no problem and is way more portable. What’s the use case everyone has that demands 6.5/7.25” saws? It’s a lot of extra size, especially for the kind of average home gainer use all the cheapo saws out there are for.

Wondering this acutely because I want to kit a small saw out with a nail embedded wood blade and… it seems like those don’t come smaller than 6.5”.
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>>2864619
I have a Skil Mag77 actually, it’s powerful but totally unnecessarily big and heavy if I just want to cut down a bunch of 2x. At the same time it’s too small to do anything 4x in one pass and I have to go to the miter saw for that. Like I was saying in the OP, it just seems a weird inbetween size for everything but what it was made for (framing) and I’m looking at getting a compact saw to actually use and not get annoyed. Cordless because why not? I have a few models in mind but was mostly wondering, the only buying advice I’m looking for or mentioned is nail embedded wood blades smaller than 6-1/2.

>>2864812
This is an answer, how much harder to control are these small ones?

>>2864592
How are steel blades on wood, or are they the negative rake blades you’re talking about?
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>>2865311
>>how much harder to control are these small ones?
It's far more likely jump out run the run onto of the material
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>>2864812
This pretty much. When you get to the smaller saws, it becomes like an angle grinder. With larger blades, you can get a higher speed at the teeth with lower RPMs and you have the momentum of the blade spinning to chew through that wood.

I have the babby 5-3/8” Ryobi. It’s ok but not super versatile. Even if you’re mostly doing trim or plywood, it’s nice to be able to make a 90deg cut in 2x material since it’s so damn common. I’m a big fan of the new 6-1/2” brushless orange guy I got, tech has come a long way on the cordless circ saws. The cutting depth on that one is about the same as my old Craftsman 7-1/4”, and the magnesium shoe and little brushless motor with some power make the thing nice to use.
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>>2864563
Miter cuts are your biggest concern? Try tracking pencil marks, following curves, preventing tear-out of thin veneers and hard laminate or melamine, plunge cuts, compound cuts, long rips.

>not get annoyed
The only acceptable battery saws for this are the 40v. Regular dewalts drop a battery partway into any cut I need to get done.

The mag77 is the real deal. Run a 4 inch saw battery saw for a few days and see if you don't go back.
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>>2865730
>The mag77 is the real deal. Run a 4 inch saw battery saw for a few days and see if you don't go back.
https://youtu.be/q5_x_h4EG-w?t=399

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Hello chad mx anons. My suspension guy retired and he refused to tell me the ins and outs of suspension thinking it would hurt his business. I tried another suspension shop but the forks on my mx bike were like a jackhammer 3rd gear plus on breaking or acceleration bumps. There were fine 2nd gear or slower, so I know it was the higher speed compression that caused the harshness. I have the Racetech suspension book, but it does not explain well the relationship between float in the midvalve and the pressure spring at the top. I was so pissed at the harshness of the forks I just increased the float by removing the thick shim (there were three, two thin and one thick), which greatly increased the float. I also changed the pressure spring from 1.8 to 1.4. Overall its much much better, but I have to be a bit careful with hard front brake AND turning in as it drives a bit. I can deal with it by breaking harder earlier and letting off just before I turn in, but I wanted to know if I can keep the pleasent feeling of riding over the breaking bumps at speed and reduce somewhat the dive of the forks. I am still not clear on the value of the increased float vs a softer compression stack of the midvalve. Can I have zero float and a two stage midvalve where the first stage is really soft to handle the square edge bumps? I have 47mm upside down twin cartridge forks, and the correct fork and shock springs for my weight
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Hello? Anyone.....anyone? Are you all fat lazy couch potatoes?
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People here only like to shitpost about what color powertool is better, etc.

>>>/o/ will have at least one motorcycle thread. Much better chance of an intelligent response there.
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>>2865759
>/o/ will have at least one motorcycle thread. Much better chance of an intelligent response there.
pffff /o/dbt/ only has posers pretending to ride, already posted there a few questions about suspension and not one semi-intelligent response. So I will just post bikini pics until the thread dies.

What to look for when buying a security door?
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>>2865345
Ideally you want a door marked Pirate, so people think a pirate might live in there
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>>2865492
>retard forgets the C stands for CONCRETE
The thinnest part of my house is 20cm of concrete reinforced with 5mm rebar, my home insurance is dirt cheap because everything is basically an above ground bunker.
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>>2865582
Would have guessed the thinnest part of your house was the window glass.
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>>2865542
God damn the methods used to make this door need to be studied
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>>2865570
Reddit

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Any tool is a consumable if you're retarded enough

Oof
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>>2865828
Looks like the drive part is replaceable. Also those step down drive adapters are probably the most commonly broken thing ever.
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>>2865828
thats a snappy or williams adapter. itll warranty
reducers getting heemed are just part of the wrenching game. especially in the modern age of fuck you power cordless impacts
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HAHAHA OMG WOW SHE'S RIGHT IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE IT'S TRUE
ONLY SOMEONE WHO IS RETARDED ENOUGH WILL BREAK A TOOL
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