General tipsFreeze your superglue. It keeps it from drying out
>>2980483Superglue actually cures from moisture, so it’s weird to say “drying out” because it is very dry in the sealed tube.
>>2980483>It keeps it from drying outno it won't
>>2980483I just put it in the fridge, no need for freezing
>>2980483Store your paint cans upside down
>>2981025>Store your paint cans upside downDo you ever get any catastrophic leakage like from the cans getting warm and popping the lids off enough for them to seep badly all over your shelves? Makes sense that it would keep the solvents from evaporating out upwards.
>>2981028I've got a small leakage right after storing the can upside down, but it usually stops after one day or so.But my paint cans are not stored in a place where it gets very hot. So... I don't know
>>2980483Works with tubes of caulk and all sorts of sealants as well.Also wire nuts work great for covering an opened tube of caulk.And if you need to discharge a capacitor, lay a gecko across the terminals to short it out.
no scale needed to see how empty your co2 tank is on a dewy morning
>>2980483You can tell which screwdriver tip you need by looking at the screwhead that needs tightening
>>2984896True>Flathead?Flathead>Phillips?Flathead>Torx?Flathead>Hex?Flathead
if you do it yourself you don't need to pay someone to do it.
If you scuff a painted wall, you can hide the scuffmark by using paint that is the same color
buy many tools but don't use them so they don't wear out and you can't have any failed projects and you save money on materials and your children (SIKE) can sell the tools later
>>2984904I'm much happier being mad at myself for being lazy and cutting corners than I am being mad about someone I paid thousands of dollars to be lazy and cut corners.
Protip- if you have shakey hands, take a shot or two before you stick a probe into a 480V contactor and bridge the 24V and a 277V leg and fry a bunch of stuff on the 24V control circuit.
>>2986466To be fair are you REALLY an electrician if you play in the live wires sober?
>>2986471Well the 480V stuff is fun as I’m learning. 120V residential is a little spark if you short something. 480V gives you a nice pop and welded those connectors to the contactor instantly. It makes you pay attention to where your leads and your hands are at.Meanwhile there’s picrel. I’ll let somebody else go in that panel before I get airgapped to death
Useful Tip:you can Freeze water to keep in stored in handy cubes
here's a lifehack, hang pennies in a bag of water.
>>2988670This confuses and disorients the jew...
>>2988670>>2988686>yfw you use holy water
pay someone
Always wash sperm with cold water
buy a router early in your woodworking career and you'll be leagues above the rest
>>2980483Don't waste your time to remove a snap ring without a snap ring plier.
>>2984904If you hire someone else you dont have to go to Home Depot on a Saturday.
Don't always trust the negative reviews on Home Depot. Most of the times, it's a skill issue.
>>2991763its true that internet access is invaluable for learning tips tricks and techniques, most of the time you get one free from your isp is fine you don't need a special one for watching woodworking youtube.
>>2991825rustoleum is objectively shit paint thoughslow drying soft garbage that doesnt stick and never gets even slightly solvent proofand that big blast nozzle is a paint waster and scientifically designed to create runseven their enamel in the can is just as bad unless you dope it with shitloads of hardener and thin it with acetone or gasolinethe main problem is when they quit thinning with xylene and other good shit
>>2991829Skill 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.
>>2991922heating 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.
>>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
